Priest

IMDB
First time viewed: Yes
Current Release: Yes
Watched With: Jordan

Hahahha, oh man. Well it's very pretty to look at.

A strange mish-mash of Western, Horror and Sci-Fi, it wears its influences on its sleeve. After an awesome animated opening segment film rolls along with a pretty good pace and fun action.

It completely fails to build any credible characters beyond their stock beginnings so you never care about what you are watching and are free to laugh at the ridiculous dialogue. It's just as hilariously hollywood as the script from Sanctum earlier in the year. There are some real dreadful, unmotivated and unnecessary lines read by the predominantly un-American cast in their best accents. And while they have whole scene foreshadowing events that never come to pass, other fundamental rules about the creatures and the world remain vague and confusing.

But I did find all this very amusing. And I can't fault it technically. It looks great, it's a step up from Legion, the effects, sound and music were great and even the post converted 3D held up in the dark lighting. It is far superior to the horror that was the new Conan The Barbarian's attempt at 3D.

Well I'm glad to finally cross this one off the list, it is another in a long line of extraordinarily late releases in Australia. And while it is a pretty terrible film I did have fun laughing at its ineptitude from time to time.