It should work, priests versus vampires, big action, good cast, Paul Bethany and Karl Urban are great talents in my opinion but it feels like there wasted here. Both are inserted into roles that to be honest are beneath them and could be played by the Mexican non-union equivalent!
The plot is simple, based on a comic book of the same name, vampires, threatened to overrun humanity, but thanks to the church and their priests, highly trained warriors, the vampires have been wiped out. Humanity are then herded into giant walled cities for protection by the church. The priests become obsolete and are reintegrated into society and are all but forgotten.
When Bethany's brother is attacked he defies the church to rise out and defeat this new formed vampire menace, headed by former priest, now human vampire, Karl Urban. All the other vampires being eyeless giant bats.
The church dispatches the remainder of the Priests to bring back Bethany, dead or alive.
Bethany soon discover that the vampires are back and are heading towards the city!
Lots of CGI and lots of action, nether well done enough to raise this movie up to being good. It's full of plot files and ever new scene brings a different trope from almost every action movie.
I'm glad I didn't see it in 3D as it looked like they said, 'this will look cool in 3D', let's do it!
Overall this is a forgettable, far too ambitious but not enough substance, disappointing movie.
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