It's just a shame this world is populated with such one-dimensional, humourless characters.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 24, 2018

Bettany is a great actor who does melancholy very well, he also has a sense of mischief. It would be nice to see it shine a bit before it, too, fades to grey.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 25, 2011

Its visual style veers between bleached desert tones and slimy undercover dankness, but the 3D version is undistinguished.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 25, 2011

Some scenes on the train have a certain chill, but overall this is likely to short-change genre lovers.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Aug 25, 2011

Bettany exudes an intensity that lays the groundwork for an interesting character, but Priest hasn't a prayer of creating anything more subtle than the giant cross tattooed on his face.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 20, 2011

The God of Aborted Franchises will be pleased.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 18, 2011

"Priest'' is based on a series of Korean graphic novels. What it's really based on, though, is other movies - a whole lot of other movies.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 16, 2011

High production values and slick editing can't save this picture. Nor does its overbearing soundtrack music, which tries to strong-arm viewers into believing they're watching a pulse-pounding thriller.

| Original Score: 1/4 | May 15, 2011

A mash-up of vampire horror and period westerns stewed with Blade Runner cityscapes and ridiculous religious images in a bubbling cauldron of dumb ideas and sinfully bad dialogue.

| Original Score: 0.5/4 | May 15, 2011

Too good-looking to be dismissed entirely, not bad enough to be worthy of outright scorn, but not good enough to watch, either.

| Original Score: C | May 13, 2011

The film, based in name only on a series of South Korean graphic novels, has nice, washed-out desert exteriors and some cool jet-powered motorcycles, but there's nothing in the hackneyed story or the derivative action scenes to make you take notice.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 13, 2011

The film is somehow a disappointing combo of too-full and oddly empty.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 13, 2011

When you watch Bettany, you can't help wondering why the hell a talented actor is stuck in such an ungodly mess.

| May 13, 2011

In the way it unimaginatively regurgitates familiar genre elements in service of preachy piousness, director Scott Charles Stewart's cinema is the equivalent of Christian rock.

| Original Score: 1/4 | May 13, 2011

[If] you're looking for a diverting sci-fi actioner that handily mixes the DNA of several different movies, with a few flying crosses thrown in and a heavy dose of Western mythology, sink your teeth in.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 13, 2011

Adapted from a graphic-novel series (and what isn't these days?), this unholy mess of horror and Western clichs is, at least, blessed with a wonderfully loony premise.

| Original Score: C- | May 13, 2011

Lately, it feels like there are two things you can count on in a Screen Gems movie. 1) It will suck. 2) It will feature Cam Gigandet. And he will suck.

| May 13, 2011

The simplistic directness of its storytelling is refreshing. It's as if the filmmakers realize they're wasting everyone's time, so they at least want to take up as little of it as possible.

| Original Score: D+ | May 13, 2011

...society is protected by a band of licensed-to-kill clergy who power up with prayer and shoot cross-shaped ninja stars.

Full Review | Original Score: A- | May 13, 2011

Doesn't have a prayer.

| May 9, 2011