PRIEST (Sony, 2011) D: Scott Charles Stewart, w/ Paul Bettany, Maggie Q. DVD package: NNN Rating: NN
Lowered expectations and cheap rental prices turn Priest from a theatrical disappointment to acceptable couch fodder, with the bonus that you’re spared the substandard 3-D.
In an alternate universe, a super-powered warrior priest ditches his vows to hunt down the vampires who’ve stolen his niece.
The exotic setting is largely an excuse for the production designers to create some gaudy urban and spaghetti westernish backgrounds and a not bad climax featuring a train and some cool motorcycles. The vampires, looking like runts from an Alien litter, serve mainly as fodder for our invincible heroes, played with steely-eyed lockjaw by Paul Bettany (the priest), Cam Gigandet (the marshal) and Maggie Q (the priestess).
Bettany and Q join director Scott Charles Stewart on a commentary that explores decision-making in the face of budgetary limitations.
EXTRAS Commentary, making-of doc, weapons and vehicles doc, deleted scenes. Widescreen. English, French audio. English, French, Spanish subtitles.
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