Tag Line: The War is Eternal, His Mission is Just The Beginning
Running Time: 1 Hours 27 Minutes
Casts: Paul Bettany, Cam Gigandet, Maggie Q
Directed by: Scott Charles Stewart
Produced by: Josh Bratman, Steve Galloway (II), Stuart J. Levy
Story:
A legendary Warrior Priest from the last Vampire War now lives in obscurity among the other downtrodden human inhabitants in walled-in dystopian cities ruled by the Church. When his niece is abducted by a murderous pack of vampires, Priest breaks his sacred vows to venture out on an obsessive quest to find her before they turn her into one of them. He is joined on his crusade by his niece's boyfriend, a trigger-fingered young wasteland sheriff, and a former Warrior Priestess who possesses otherworldly fighting skills.
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Review:
When I saw this movie's trailer few months ago, I thought it would be a great movie. It will be a great masterpiece in 2011. I liked the whole concept of the movie, it's beyond your imagination, it's in your fantasy, and it should be great. Unfortunately, it's far away from great. It's even far away from good. It's bad. I really felt disappointed after I watched it. Everything was so lame and bad, just bad. Let's peel it one by one.
The story tells us about war between human and vampire that has been happened for a very long time. It's like a never ending war. Finally, the Church create a group of super power persons called Priest. It consists of six persons. At last, they think they have win and eliminated all the vampire. Unfortunately, the queen of the vampire is still alive and has turned one of the priest to be the king of the vampires. Few years later, human may lives in peace until the priest feel something is going wrong when one of his niece has been abducted by the vampires. The church leader doesn't believe in him, so he has to break his sacred vow in order to save his niece. with the help of is niece's boyfriend, and his other companion, they try to find the vampire's hive and kill all the vampires who abducted his niece. Finally, he finds out that he has to fight his long lost friend in order to save his niece.
If you just read the story I has written above, you may say it good or maybe great. But it's really different than it should be. The script for me is really bad. The beginning of the movie is the "best" one, well you know it's best out of the worst and it becomes worst minute after minute till its ending. The concept is maybe great but the whole script has ruined the concept. It's totally falling to pieces. The story doesn't make any sense at all. It's a little spoiler here, the vampire's queen is no whereabout, she should be around and fight the priest, but she isn't. Another spoiler, when the priest's niece knows that she is actually the priest's daughter, she doesn't seem feel surprised at all. It's just ridiculous. The winning scene is even worse, how can a super enemy is beaten just like that??? Great concept, wrong script make it be one of the worst movie of vampire kind.
For the acts, Paul Betanny is not as good as usual. The wrong dialogue makes it worse. Maggie Q who is a vampire hunter, also can't evoke her sexiness through the movie. She is just wrong to play this character. The one who also get the horrible role is Cam Gigandet, his sheriff character is awkward, his acts is lame and terrible, but for me he still has a sexy look and personality inside. But he is not that stunning as his role in Twilight. Stephen Moyer who is a cameo in this movie is also bad. He is really bad. He can't be compared with his role in True Blood. It's too far. Cam and Stephen who were famous vampire in their hits movies, just be a human in this movie, it really turns down their great act and sexiness. Maybe, they shouldn't be human form but vampire in order to defend their great performance. :D
The visual effect is good as this movie should be. I think they were too focus about the effect so they lost the script. Sorry to say, even I can call the effects good, it's not better than the similar movie. It's just the same. Nothing is new about the effects, it seems just like Matrix effects that maybe still good to see but old. Maybe I've watched too much fantasy movie, so if this one compares to the other, this flick effect is just ok and that's it.
Overall, this movie is the worst of the kind in 2011. for me, it's just wasting you money and time if you watch it at a theater. Does it entertain? Yes, maybe but not in theater. I suggest you better watch it at home if you really want to watch it. Just rent it at your nearest video rental, it's not worth it to buy it, except you are a collector or that Gigandet guy fans. :D
Good points:
- The visual effects maybe good to watch for some of you
Bad points:
- The script is bad and the story isn't how it supposed to be
- The great acts are given horrible roles and that makes this flick even worse
Rating: 4.0/10.0
The story tells us about war between human and vampire that has been happened for a very long time. It's like a never ending war. Finally, the Church create a group of super power persons called Priest. It consists of six persons. At last, they think they have win and eliminated all the vampire. Unfortunately, the queen of the vampire is still alive and has turned one of the priest to be the king of the vampires. Few years later, human may lives in peace until the priest feel something is going wrong when one of his niece has been abducted by the vampires. The church leader doesn't believe in him, so he has to break his sacred vow in order to save his niece. with the help of is niece's boyfriend, and his other companion, they try to find the vampire's hive and kill all the vampires who abducted his niece. Finally, he finds out that he has to fight his long lost friend in order to save his niece.
If you just read the story I has written above, you may say it good or maybe great. But it's really different than it should be. The script for me is really bad. The beginning of the movie is the "best" one, well you know it's best out of the worst and it becomes worst minute after minute till its ending. The concept is maybe great but the whole script has ruined the concept. It's totally falling to pieces. The story doesn't make any sense at all. It's a little spoiler here, the vampire's queen is no whereabout, she should be around and fight the priest, but she isn't. Another spoiler, when the priest's niece knows that she is actually the priest's daughter, she doesn't seem feel surprised at all. It's just ridiculous. The winning scene is even worse, how can a super enemy is beaten just like that??? Great concept, wrong script make it be one of the worst movie of vampire kind.
For the acts, Paul Betanny is not as good as usual. The wrong dialogue makes it worse. Maggie Q who is a vampire hunter, also can't evoke her sexiness through the movie. She is just wrong to play this character. The one who also get the horrible role is Cam Gigandet, his sheriff character is awkward, his acts is lame and terrible, but for me he still has a sexy look and personality inside. But he is not that stunning as his role in Twilight. Stephen Moyer who is a cameo in this movie is also bad. He is really bad. He can't be compared with his role in True Blood. It's too far. Cam and Stephen who were famous vampire in their hits movies, just be a human in this movie, it really turns down their great act and sexiness. Maybe, they shouldn't be human form but vampire in order to defend their great performance. :D
The visual effect is good as this movie should be. I think they were too focus about the effect so they lost the script. Sorry to say, even I can call the effects good, it's not better than the similar movie. It's just the same. Nothing is new about the effects, it seems just like Matrix effects that maybe still good to see but old. Maybe I've watched too much fantasy movie, so if this one compares to the other, this flick effect is just ok and that's it.
Overall, this movie is the worst of the kind in 2011. for me, it's just wasting you money and time if you watch it at a theater. Does it entertain? Yes, maybe but not in theater. I suggest you better watch it at home if you really want to watch it. Just rent it at your nearest video rental, it's not worth it to buy it, except you are a collector or that Gigandet guy fans. :D
Good points:
- The visual effects maybe good to watch for some of you
Bad points:
- The script is bad and the story isn't how it supposed to be
- The great acts are given horrible roles and that makes this flick even worse
Rating: 4.0/10.0
