Sutherland Goes Ballistic as a Virus-Injecting Priest in Father Joe

Venice’s Father Joe pairs Kiefer Sutherland’s gun-toting priest with Al Pacino in a deliriously violent, Besson-esque beat-’em-up about a mobster’s drug empire challenged by a priest who uses a homemade virus and weekly communion to stay alive; the film blends pulp action, throwback set-pieces, and dark humor, delivering a wildly entertaining if polarizing watch, with Sutherland and Pacino relishing the spectacle.