Priest

Priest is one of the best vampire movies I’ve ever seen.

My kiddo is early teen and we've started transitioning to more "mature" movies. This one was a decent fit. He likes action and creatures, so he enjoyed it. Wasn't too bloody or too much brash language. Interesting concept, story wasn't too outlandish, lol. Would watch again.

I like Priest. It introduced a novel vampire history, explaining dystopia and resulting religious oligarchy, including how the physically superior vampires evolved and became vulnerable. Priest showed humans trapped in stagnating cities and as dirt farmers clawing a living from a praire dustbowl. It showed the difficulty that specially talented individuals experience living among everybody else. It was built around realistic conflict between family members, friends, leaders, and ideologies. Just like real life. I felt real compassion for the characters, without the need for phony back stories, maudlin scenes, or gushing emotions. If you want to see the personalities of the characters, just listen to them, watch them, and observe their values / judgments. Just like real life. So what's the problem? The disk itself did not agree with me. I don't like to have to fast forward through endless Sony advertisements and trailers of motion pictures I will never want to watch. And the 5.1 sound cut through my ears with fingernails-on-blackboard treble (ouch my headache) and weak doddery bass . I couldn't get it to play satisfactorily on my system, and so I cannot recommend it. The video quality and the story were great. The actors managed some of their better performances. But the sound was a killer.

Bought this movie to add to a friend's rather excellent movie collection. The movie arrived quickly, was in great condition and played well. We had a great night watching this movie and Paul Bettany and rewriting vampire lore.

A very entertaining movie with lots of good action and special effects. This movie takes place in an alternative reality where humans and vampires have lived and fought side by side for centuries. The vampires in this movie are not the glittering images of humans, but a humanoid shaped monster with claws and fangs and eyeless faces. After almost losing the war against vampires, the humans come up with the ultimate weapon, specially trained men and women called Priests who have the strength and speed and training to defeat the vampires. They destroy most of the vampires and confine the rest in out of the way reserves where they are suppose to be guarded and isolated. As you would suspect, this all goes wrong. During the course of the movie we see dystopian cities reminiscent of the cities in Blade Runner, desert landscapes from Mad Max, and settlements and railroads from your favorite 1950's Western. If all this seems a strange combination, the director and set designers make it all work. The action is well choreographed, the weapons look menacing and lethal, and the costumes look right for their part, either in the city or outside of it. One of the understated stars of the show are the motorcycles, looking retro and futuristic at the same time. They are the main way the Priests get around the bleak countryside and appear to be real devices and not just CGI. All in all, an entertaining movie and worth a five star rating. I have no idea if they plan to make a sequel, but if they do, I'd go see it.

I'll admit right up front that I've never read the graphic novel this is based on so I have zero preconceptions going in. I love this movie. The cast is nearly flawless, especially Bettany, Urban, and Maggie Q. The world that is created is typically dystopian with the Church holding absolute power within the city walls. Outside the walls is a desolate wasteland where people struggle to survive but at least are free from the Church. After a centuries-long war between humans and vampires (who are sightless animalistic creatures and not your Anne Rice or Twilight vamps), the Church created a legion of super-soldiers, the Priests, who wiped out most of the vamps. The ones that remained were put in reservations out in the wastelands and the Church disbanded the Priests. Now, however, the vamps are back and Bettany's Priest defies the Church to search for his niece (Lily Collins) who has been kidnapped by a mystery vampire. Admittedly, the plot doesn't break a lot of new ground and you'll be able to guess what happens throughout but I enjoyed all but one character (the reallllllly young sheriff who is in love with Collins is a bit of a douchebag, honestly) but I still recommend this. Like others in these reviews, I would have loved to see a sequel but it won't happen. Perhaps an animated sequel, Sony???

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Excellent Film !!! A l’epoque sans DEI et inclusivité. Je le recommande.

Good film , not blu ray

Je suis entièrement d'accord avec l'avis de Lotito "vvos", cette édition en boitier steelbook est de toute beauté (bien que limitée à 4000 ex, je n'ai trouvé aucun numéro dessus le justifiant, mais peu importe...). Image de très bonne qualité et une fois de plus Sony arrive à mettre 3 pistes son en DTS HD MA (Lossless) de très bonne facture. Bravo, une édition digne du support Blu Ray. Pour le film en lui même, les avis artistique étant très subjectifs, je dirais donc juste que ce film m'a bien plu sans être un monument, un bon moment de divertissement, c'est l'essentiel. Alors oui, 5 étoiles pour l'édition et 4 pour le film.

本編の87分があっという間で、うんちくや講釈抜きで、ワクワクドキドキ楽しめました！ 物語の展開もサクサクしていてテンポ良く、プリーストvsバンパイアの戦闘シーンも迫力あり「これぞ映画、面白い！」の感想です。 続編確定？のエンディングに、思わず更なる期待でニヤリとなりました。 よく類似作品と比較したりして酷評する方もいますが、面白いものは面白い！でいいじゃないですか。 SF、アクション、ホラー好きにはたまらない映画です。