Day 179: "Remember: to go against the Church is to go against God."

My recent history with post-apocalyptic, alternate future movies is bleak to say the least.  I had little faith that Priest would break this streak.  It begins with a short, surprisingly well done, animated history of this world and its ruling theocracy.  That alone drew me in.  After that the story turns to a priest in that society who begins to have doubts about the veracity of certain truths.  After seeing cracks and faults in the facade of the new world order, he begins to rally around the fact that the vampires that were thought conquered and placed on a " reservation", are roaming free again.  He is ordered to stand down by the Monsignor, but instead chooses the truth as it is and begins a new war on the vampires.  I thought this was going to be another Legion, I was wrong.  This was full of action, the vampires were pretty cool, and I liked the history of the world.

Paul Bettany stars as Priest, a complete vampire hunting badass.  Christopher Plummer is Monsignor Orelas, Priest's main antagonist on the council and reason he walks away from everything he fought for.  Karl Urban and Maggie Q also star.

Based on a graphic novel, as most movies these days seem to be, Priest is better than a lot that is already out there.  The violence and language is strong so the R rating is well warranted.  Give it a spin if you're in the mood for a good, end-of-summer popcorn flick.  7.5/10.

See you tomorrow, and GO WATCH A MOVIE!!