Rented along with Source Code from YellowCylinder, I also had an opportunity to watch the movie Priest, which comes across as a re-envisioned look at Christianity and the Church, or at least how they would be, if they had to deal with vampires in a dystopian/western/steampunk type setting. Vampires lately have gotten a stupid reputation from movies like Twilight, Daybreakers, etc. This movie does not help the vampire's reputation. Vampires, while stupidly agile and deadly, are slimy, naked, eyeless, and generally unwelcome to my ocular cavities. What happened to the old vampires? What happened to the ones who are still slightly human, but have an insatiable bloodlust, or the beautiful vampires who kill so ruthlessly that you don't know if you should drool or scream?
The idea is that vampires and humans were always around. Vampires were much more agile than men, much better at killing, and just generally better at f*cking sh*t up. Vampires had a weakness that men could exploit, though: The sun. It wasn't enough, however, and the two warring sides were on a path of global destruction (think arms race, except one side is developing revolutionary weaponry while the other is sticking with good ol' fashioned hard work and biting people in half). Humans eventually fell behind walls controlled and protected by the church (which looks a lot like a police state), and the church employs Priests, elite vampire fighting humans who really turned the tides against the vampires to the point where Priests were no longer really necessary.
The opening credits explain it better, and they are fantastic...
The action scenes are plentiful, the scenery is imaginative and the dialogue is pretty good. In general, I enjoyed the movie, not to a major extent, but it was pretty good. If you like the diverging vampire mythos, you may like this one, but you can easily skip this one if the premise does nothing for you.
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For the comments, let's decide who would win in a fight, the best Priest or the best Grammaton Cleric?
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