PRIEST

The problem with the film is there isn't any character development to be found.  Without building characters, action will always fall flat.  The material is there, too which makes it even more of a loss.  You have the Priest who was forced to give up his family when the clergy came calling.  Fine.  He does it.  But after ridding the vampire menace, the church turns its back upon him, forcing him into exile.  This character should have a lot of emotional weight.  He's a badass with nowhere to turn to.  He's fought a war only to discover the cost is his soul.  That's a character we can get behind.

Instead, we get Paul Bettany (who may be a good actor but he is most certainly not a lead in an action film) and no development.  We never feel his pain.  We never see his sorrow.  We never even get a scene where he tries to explain to his long-lost daughter what happened and why he did what he did.

This movie is terrible.  The action is substandard-tv-level.  The vampires looked weak.  Karl Urban's death scene looked ridiculous.

Scott Stewart proves in this and  LEGION that he doesn't belong in the director's chair.  He doesn't have any visual flair and he cannot tell a story.