Glad to see John Leguizamo is showing his face and not just his great voice in the new religious crime thriller The Ministers. The people over at empireonline.com give us this:
John Leguizamo is under holy orders from the man he worked with on Empire (no relation), director Franc. Reyes (his full-stop, not ours) to star in his next film, The Ministers.
The twisty plot finds a New York homicide detective driven by the death of her father, who was slaughtered while on duty. The culprit was never found and the only evidence at the scene was a pamphlet for a mysterious religious order known only as – you guessed it – The Ministers.
Her father died 13 years ago and the group has been quiet for more than a decade, but she soon discovers that they’re back and in force. But because this is a conspiracy crime thriller, she’s swiftly removed from the case and ordered not to meddle. And here’s the extra turn of the knife- she’s involved with a man who’s secretly part of the group… We’re guessing that Leguizamo is the love interest.
Sounds pretty good, not breaking any new barriers in filmmaking but it sounds like it’ll be entertaining. What I’m most happy about is John being in it, he is such a great actor to watch on screen, there’s just this dynamite way about him. I noticed him the first time when he was in a different thriller Whispers in The Dark (very sexy film, not sure if it has held up to the test of time). If you check out Leguizamo’s imdb.com profile you’ll see that he’s got quite a bit of work coming up in his career, like a TV series called The Kill Pit and five other films.
I’m not a big fan of the relatively new genre of religious crime thrillers, I walked out of Constantine and I am one of the few who didn’t watch The Da Vinci code. But this movie seems to be more crime and less religion, add to that John Leguizamo and now you’ve got something worth watching.
