6/10
Wow -- I actually loved this!
20 August 2019
Warning: Spoilers
After a devastating family tragedy - my copy still doesn't have the VFX done but I can assume it must have been pretty awful - Father Jones loses his faith and moves to China, as you do. A dying woman gives him a dragon tooth and soon, he learns that he can transform into a raptor. At first, he's horrified by his newfound superpower, but a local prostitute convinces him to use his newfound gift to fight ninjas.

If you don't want to watch this movie after that first paragraph, you may want to rethink coming to our site. This is a $35,000 epic begging for you to devour it.

When he comes back to America, he saves a prostitute named Carol (Alyssa Kempinski) from some muggers by tearing them apart. They make love, which goes against his vow of celibacy. And then, when her pimp confesses that he's the one who killed our hero's parents, well, all bets are off. The VelociPastor has a new mission from God and it involves killing lots of people, including a rogue sect of ninja Knights Templar.

I completely expected to hate this movie, seeing it as SyFy or Troma level dreck. To me surprise, it's cunningly in on the joke and understands exactly the kind of movie that it is. Throw in an utterly bonkers overly edited lovemaking sequence and you have a movie I'll be telling people about for the next few weeks.

The funniest part of the film - there are many - was when the church brings in an exorcist, played by animator/musician/toy designer/renaissance man Voltaire. Look - any movie where ninjas battle prostitutes and priests is going to be anything but boring. Pretty cool for a movie that came out of a trailer from 2011!
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