JamesG
05-13-2011, 05:20 PM
Movie Reviews: Priest
It’s officially only the second weekend of the summer movie season, and already a movie is opening without its being shown to critics in advance — a fate usually reserved for dregs of the season that are tossed out in late August or early September.
The movie is Priest, starring Paul Bettany — and if it’s as bad as most of the people who have seen it say it is, then it could set a new record low at the box office for a 3D film.
(It was quickly converted from the original 2D, probably in the hope that the 3D surcharge would lift it into profitability.)
It opened in the U.K. last weekend, and judging by the reviews in the London press, Sony/Screen Gems was probably correct in its decision not to show it to critics here.
In the London Daily Mirror, writer David Edwards delivered an apology to John Travolta for once calling his Battlefield Earth possibly the worst film ever made.
“Drab, eye-rollingly stupid and with noisy effects designed to drown out audience snores, Priest is just about as bad as it gets,”
Tim Robey’s review in the Telegraph was only slightly less disparaging.
“Clawing away under its 3D dinge and slick but desensitizing effects, the movie is deadly, even when it’s cool — a comic-book adaptation ruthlessly shorn of the word ‘comic,’”
-IMDB News
It’s officially only the second weekend of the summer movie season, and already a movie is opening without its being shown to critics in advance — a fate usually reserved for dregs of the season that are tossed out in late August or early September.
The movie is Priest, starring Paul Bettany — and if it’s as bad as most of the people who have seen it say it is, then it could set a new record low at the box office for a 3D film.
(It was quickly converted from the original 2D, probably in the hope that the 3D surcharge would lift it into profitability.)
It opened in the U.K. last weekend, and judging by the reviews in the London press, Sony/Screen Gems was probably correct in its decision not to show it to critics here.
In the London Daily Mirror, writer David Edwards delivered an apology to John Travolta for once calling his Battlefield Earth possibly the worst film ever made.
“Drab, eye-rollingly stupid and with noisy effects designed to drown out audience snores, Priest is just about as bad as it gets,”
Tim Robey’s review in the Telegraph was only slightly less disparaging.
“Clawing away under its 3D dinge and slick but desensitizing effects, the movie is deadly, even when it’s cool — a comic-book adaptation ruthlessly shorn of the word ‘comic,’”
-IMDB News