The journey of a professional wrestler who becomes a small town pastor and moonlights as a masked vigilante fighting injustice. While facing crises at home and at the church, the Pastor must evade the police and somehow reconcile his violent secret identity with his calling as a pastor.
You'll be ready to leave long before "The Masked Saint" finally goes down for the count.
– Suzanne Condie Lambert,
Arizona Republic,
7 Jan 2016
rotten:
The only thing about it worth remembering is that it was the last film made by wrestler-turned-actor Roddy Piper before his death last year.
– Peter Sobczynski,
RogerEbert.com,
8 Jan 2016
rotten:
Turns out, you can be both macho and righteous, as long as you're doing it for the Lord. Chris' journey toward that revelation makes up this stretched-out parable, which boasts the kind of Lycra-deep characterization we associate with the... genre.
– Inkoo Kang,
TheWrap,
8 Jan 2016
rotten:
An inauspicious first entry in the Christian pro-wrestling vigilante movie subgenre.