Priest

Priest Proclamation Does Not Pass Litmus Test
Priest, PG-13, *, Paul Bettany, Karl Urban, Cam gigandet, Maggie Q, Lilly Collins, Christopher Plummer. Buckaroo Entertainment. Length 87 minutes.

In this dark science-fiction tale, men and vampires clash with brutality. “Priest” is based on a graphic novel that some readers may know about. I am not familiar with it.
As I was deciding on which movie to watch, I was talking to some movie fans that had seen “Priest.” The advice I received will be the same advice I will give the audience. Check brain and intelligence in the lobby before seeing the movie. After the movie is over, remember the old song that once played in theaters before the movie began, Let’s all go to the lobby to get ourselves a treat. However, in this case, it is just to reclaim one’s intelligence.
In this movie, the war between men and vampires is presumably over. Man found a way to defeat them and place them on Vampire Reservations to live their lives away from humans.
The only way the Vampires could be defeated was through a special force of Priests. Everyone seems to believe the war is completely over. However, it seems that some of the blood suckers have decided to wage war again. Priest (Paul Bettany) was the leader of the anti-vampire soldiers responsible for locating Vampires on Reservations. He took an oath after the war, and he is not allowed to fight the vampires. However, when his brother and his wife are killed and their daughter is kidnapped, Priest disavows his oath and begins to hunt the vampire kidnappers.
As so many stories have similar plots, so does this one. I am reluctant to compare this with a classic movie like “The Searchers,” but the story is somewhat similar. A young girl kidnapped by a group of evil doers, and the supposedly uncle is out to save the day. Priest takes a young boy along with him, and of course, the youngster is in love with the kidnapped girl.
There are several semi-surprises in this movie, but none of them are so difficult the audience will not figure out faster than a vampire will get in out of the light. There is a lot of action, and over the top thrills and spills. This is the second movie I have seen recently about a fast moving train, and trying to get on the train while it is speeding down the track. Cars were used in the last one. This time fast speeding motorcycles are used.
The leader of the bad Vampires is Black Hat (Karl Urban). He even tries to speak softly like Clint Eastwood did in the spaghetti westerns. A fight between Black Hat and Priest culminates at the end of the movie.
Seeing this movie instead of another one reminded me of what my dad said about asking someone in an unfamiliar town where to eat lunch. The man said, “See the restaurant on the left down the street and the restaurant on the right down the street – if you eat at the one on the left, you will wish you had eaten at the one on the right.”
That basically sums up the movie going situation for me this weekend. Hopefully, Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) and Angelica (Penelope Cruz) will upgrade our moving going experience next week. “Ahoy Mate.”