movie review: Priest
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...starring Maggie Q, Karl Urban, Paul Bettany, and Christopher Plummer.
I rate this movie 9.5 out of 10.
Some of the weapons looked very much like the traditional items of warfare for the Maya, Hawaiians, and such tribes.
For a vampire movie, there wasn't really much blood. (though I looked away the two or three times a character got punched in the face)
Things I liked:
* Maggie Q as a Priest(ess), slaying ass and taking names.
* the movie showed a Readers Digest version of the history of the war between Humans and Vampires - the two have been at war throughout history, but didn't do a "this is where vampires come from" or "this is how God created us all, human and vampire." (that's not bizarre - some real world cultures have tales of the balance of supernatural and mortal forces, while not spending much time on Where It All Began)
* the realistic way the film admits how the Priests are treated when, post-War (pre-film), they are disbanded. (like war vets nowadays and for decades)
* the design of the Vampires was pretty good. you can see evidence of a possible primate ancestry, but you can also see how they are definitively not. they are Other.
Things I disliked:
* the Vampires were locked away on Reservations. though, what else could they be called? Internment Camps, maybe. but that's no better.
* the Vampire Queen. (the close-up on her arm looked human, with five fingers - yet she looked vaguely like a bat, though not entirely chiropteran)
Will there be a sequel?
I'd put money on it.
"The Queen's hands have not been idle."
&
"The War is over."
"No, its just begun."
...starring Maggie Q, Karl Urban, Paul Bettany, and Christopher Plummer.
I rate this movie 9.5 out of 10.
Some of the weapons looked very much like the traditional items of warfare for the Maya, Hawaiians, and such tribes.
For a vampire movie, there wasn't really much blood. (though I looked away the two or three times a character got punched in the face)
Things I liked:
* Maggie Q as a Priest(ess), slaying ass and taking names.
* the movie showed a Readers Digest version of the history of the war between Humans and Vampires - the two have been at war throughout history, but didn't do a "this is where vampires come from" or "this is how God created us all, human and vampire." (that's not bizarre - some real world cultures have tales of the balance of supernatural and mortal forces, while not spending much time on Where It All Began)
* the realistic way the film admits how the Priests are treated when, post-War (pre-film), they are disbanded. (like war vets nowadays and for decades)
* the design of the Vampires was pretty good. you can see evidence of a possible primate ancestry, but you can also see how they are definitively not. they are Other.
Things I disliked:
* the Vampires were locked away on Reservations. though, what else could they be called? Internment Camps, maybe. but that's no better.
* the Vampire Queen. (the close-up on her arm looked human, with five fingers - yet she looked vaguely like a bat, though not entirely chiropteran)
Will there be a sequel?
I'd put money on it.
"The Queen's hands have not been idle."
&
"The War is over."
"No, its just begun."