Priest (film)
| Movie | |
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| German title | Priest |
| Original title | Priest |
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| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
| length | 87 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 16 JMK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Scott Stewart |
| script | Cory Goodman |
| production |
Michael De Luca Joshua Donen Mitchell Peck |
| music | Christopher Young |
| camera | Don Burgess |
| cut | Lisa Zeno Churgin |
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Priest is an American fantasy / horror film directed by Scott Stewart . The film was released in theaters in the United States on May 13, 2011 . The cinema release in Germany was on May 12, 2011.
action
After centuries of war between humans and vampires , the world is devastated and the last of the vampires are housed on reservations. The people live in closed off megacities in which the priests as a warrior caste, which has now become superfluous in peace, eke out a niche existence.
One day the priest is visited by Sheriff Hicks, who tells him about a vampire attack in which the priest's brother, Owen Pace, and his wife, the priest's former love, were attacked. The daughter, Lucy Pace, was abducted. Priest steps up before the clergy and asks for his authority to be regained in order to save Lucy. He is turned away on the grounds that the war is over, and he is informed that if he should oppose the Church and go in search of Lucy on his own initiative, he will be expelled from the order and immediately excommunicated . Despite this, he still goes on a search. While the church assigns four more priests to the renegade priest, Sheriff Hicks and Priest return to the place where Lucy disappeared. You will discover tracks that lead to a reserve and follow them. However, there they only find infected and weak vampires and after interrogating an infected person they decide to go to a nearby stick. There they meet a priestess who has been waiting there to warn them about the other priests and the church.
They discover a new building in the hive and realize that the vampires have bred a new army and are now ready to attack. While they see a tunnel leading out of the stick towards the city of Jericho, the three other priests in Jericho encounter the vampire army and their leader "Black Hat" who arrived on a train heading for the big cities and last Refuge humanity takes. "Black Hat", a former priest who was transformed into a new vampire form by the vampire queen, kills all priests.
With a suicide mission, Hicks, the priest and the priestess decide to save Lucy and stop the train. When Hicks threatens the priest because he wants to kill Lucy, should she be infected, he learns that Priest is Lucy's father.
They reach the train and the showdown begins. Priest realizes that his enemy is his former friend, whom he lost to the vampires in the last fight because he fell into the stick. "Black Hat" accuses him of having let go of him. He offers Priest that they could compete side by side as brothers against humanity, since the vampires are the purer species. Priest says no. In a chain of events in which the priestess heads for the train on a motorcycle laden with explosives and Hicks is thrown out of the train by Black Hat, Priest manages to grab Lucy and leave the train with her before it explodes. After the explosion, which Hicks, Lucy, the priest and the priestess survived, you can see the hat from "Black Hat" slowly slide to the ground.
In the end, Priest returns to town and tosses a vampire's skull to the head of the clergy, Monsignor Orelas. He says the church will find a train in front of the city walls with hundreds of them still on it - only the queen has not been found. Orelas is angry at the priest's audacity and insists that the war is over. But Priest contradicts him: the war has only just started.
In the last scene you see Priest and the priestess in front of the city walls. The priestess tells him that all the other priests have been informed and that they will meet for the final fight. He then sped away in his vehicle.
background
Priest is based on the Manhwa series of the same name by the South Korean draftsman Hyung Min-woo , but has little in common with it apart from the title.
criticism
The film received mostly negative reviews. On the movie review page rotten tomatoes , the proportion of positive reviews is 16%.
"So the spiritual-ideological level of the film remains half-baked and the chance for more than just a properly made B-picture with an unclear message remains unused."
"With biblical-religious motifs, Stewart knows his way around murderous angels and punches a visually appealing B-picture from the effect factory, which naturally capitalizes on action and look, while dramaturgical virtues are only an appendix."
“Priest presents a Catholicism to be feared, but with his naturally chaste priestly image is also downright un-Catholic joyless. The project, postponed several times, reassigned and blown up to 3D in post-production, obviously has only one purpose, namely the sequel, the continuation. "
Web links
- Priest in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Rating at Rotten Tomatoes
- Comparison of the cut versions Theatrical Version - Unrated by Priest at Schnittberichte.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Age rating for priest . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Rating by Rotten Tomatoes
- ^ Priest> Film Starts Criticism. Retrieved October 25, 2011 .
- ^ Kino.de - film review: Priest. Retrieved October 25, 2011 .
- ↑ Crosses to battle swords. Retrieved October 25, 2011 .