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Rating:  -
This put the B in Bad Movies! Don't waste your hard earn money. If you can catch it on cable in a few years, do so but if you miss it.... trust me you didn't miss much!
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Faith isn't a hard thing to lose, but it is a hard thing to let go of. After all, even believing in nothing requires its own kind of faith. Katherine Winter (Hilary Swank) is an ex-missionary, an ordained minister who lost her faith somewhere in the dreary hillocks of her troubled past. Now she keeps her eyes in safer and saner (if not more clinical) pastures, spending her time as an LSU professor whose specialty is debunking myths and miracles. She approaches her job with the grim satisfaction of an older brother telling his younger sibling that, no, Santa Claus is NOT real.
Her services are soon required by a small town in New Orleans by the name of Haven (that's called "irony," folks!). It seems a local boy was recently killed. It may or may not have been at the hands of a local girl, Loren. The only thing that is certain is that, for some reason, the local river has turned to blood. The uber-fundamentalist townfolk are certain that the ten Biblical plagues have come to their sleepy corner of the world, and they believe that the adorably creepy girl is the reason.
Anna Sophia Robb (Bridge to Terabithia) plays the questionable and mostly-mute tyke with the same sort of numb withdrawl that can be found in Swank's Katherine Winter. Both actresses seem stunned to find themselves in such a schlocky movie, and neither one of them looks like they're having much fun.
There's fun to be had, I suppose. The plagues trundle across the screen dutifully, some of them thrown in off-handedly as if they were mere hurdles to cross (the plagues of flies and frogs are mostly laughable), others done succinctly to cool effect (the aforementioned river of blood, the plague of darkness). Attached to these mostly gratuitous images is a story about sacrifice, devil worship, and heavenly vengeance.
Although the plotting certainly isn't sloppy, it's also not very sound. Much like a freshly erected stack of Jenga blocks, one gets the impression it wouldn't take two well-planned pokes to send the whole thing tumbling to the ground. Katherine doesn't have much to do in the movie, in spite of her weird-n-wild surroundings, so most of her role consists of creepy dream after creepy dream, as well as so many jittering, incomprehensible flashbacks that the whole film threatens to turn into one epileptic-inducing trailer for itself.
Trailers can be entertaining in and of themselves, though, and this is no real exception. The shards of light and the scattered images do eventually resolve into some kind of sense. Although that resolution isn't particularly surprising, it is industrious, at least until the final scene. The makers of "The Reaping," already a (happily) hackneyed film, tack on a (mordantly) hackneyed ending. The result is labored and dumb, albeit not surprising.
"The Reaping" is by no means a good film, and some would rightfully call it bad. Given the decent story (such as it is) and the hokum it trots out with such cheesy abandon, I don't fault the film much for the flaws in its faith. It's nice -- if even in a shadowy way -- to find, in the midst of a world without spirit, a movie that isn't afraid to flaunt its over-cooked soul.
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"The Reaping" is produced by Joel Silver's Dark Castle Entertainment, which had made such films as "House on the Haunted Hill" "The 13en Ghosts" and "House of Wax." For their sixth film, they have chosen religious issues as the theme of the new film, which stars Hilary Swank as Kathleen, former missionary and professor who has to investigate the strange events in the small town of Haven. David Morrissey plays Doug, a science teacher at the local school, Idris Elba as Ben, Kathleen's co-worker and Stephen Rea as Father Costigan, whose warning Kathleen ignores, well, at first.
"The strange events" or "plagues" include the river water turning red, or diseases that kill animals, and probably you can guess what follows after them. Like any films from Dark Castle Entertainment, each spooky event is expressed with decent photography and production designs, plus the credible locations of Louisiana.
For all its merits, however, "The Reaping" lacks the narrative power that is needed to draw the viewers into the world it describes. The character of Kathleen, who has lost her faith because of a traumatic event, is barely interesting as heroine to whom we relate, and her romantic relations with Doug (which plays an important part in the plot) are not convincing, lacking emotional depths. Though the film shows dark atmosphere, the mysterious events or "miracles" are not mysterious enough.
The story also involves a little girl named Loren (played by AnnaSophia Robb, impressive in "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"), who might or might not be responsible for these plagues in the local town. The film gets better in the second part where we meet this mysterious girl Loren, but sadly the film takes too much time to reach there. Actually, Director Stephen Hopkins seems more interested in something else, but not the girl and Miss Robb who should be in the center of the film's story.
I still don't know if I should call "The Reaping" a horror film because not many people, I think, would find it scary. That in itself may not be a problem, but it is true that for all its aptly dark atmosphere, the film's suspense fades away too quickly -- as occult thriller, supernatural thriller, or any kind of thriller or drama -- after we come to know where the film leading us to. Many things we will see here, we have seen elsewhere before, perhaps in better films. As to the film's brief and ineffective "frog" scene, "Magnolia" did it better.
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In a small town called Haven in Louisiana there are series of bizzare events that seem to point toward there being a biblical plaque on the loose, like rivers of human blood, livestock dying mysteriously, boils and locusts erupting and swarming through the town.
A former Christian missionary Katherine who no longer believes in God or miracles played by the versatile Hilary Swank along with her intelligent assistant portrayed by the yummy Idris Elba are persuaded by one of the town's residents, the hunky Doug, David Morrissey at his smoldering best, to come along and investigate the strange goings on in his home town.
He persuades Katherine to come by telling her that the town is blaming a little girl, a child who is not much older than Katherine's murdered daughter. It's a ploy that works and she and her assistant accompany Doug to Haven.
What happens next is both thrilling and nerve racking. There are enough heart stopping moments in this movie that will make your pacemaker go into overdrive, I certainly jumped on more than one occasion!
Great special effects, solid acting, Stephen Rea only has small part as the tormented priest who tries to warn Katherine that she is great danger, but he does it with great aplomb and conviction.
Anna Sophia Robb is Lauren, a girl who you are not sure is good or bad only that she seems to be around a lot when terrible things happen and that she is the key in all that is going on it what should be a lovely little bible belt town hidden from the outside world.
There are two good twists in the tale in this movie, I won't spoil them by telling you what they are but they are good.
This is a great film and Swank steals the show though everyone else is excellent in it.
A bit slow moving at first but it gathers momentum and culminates in the ride of your life as as you try to work out who is good, who is bad and what the hell is going on in the supposed God fearing town of Haven?
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I mean horror films are fun to watch in the theater regardless of how it turns out but I still think my friend wasted too much money to have us go out and see this. This was yet another one of those horror movies that literally plague the modern world- one that looks so promising on commercials and yet completely disappoints you when you see the entire thing.
It's not that it was utter garbage. The plot itself keeps your interest but you nonetheless get a bit irritated at how the story unravels. At first this character Swank plays, who is a know- it- all whose job is to go see places of miracles and then find a scientific explantation to them, travels to a small southern town to to check out this supposed river of blood. Suddenly, shocker, they find out it's real blood. By the time the results come back and confirm it is real blood already there have been livestock dying and the children there have a head full of lice among the locusts as well, which were the most interesting scenes in this film- but Swank soon just grows fascinated with the one girl the whole town is blaming this on, supposedly the girl who killed her brother and that was how it started. But of course there is a lot more to it than the town says but I'll leave that little interesting twist for curious readers to find out when they finally see it.
I don't know what exactly ruined this movie. I agree it does sound like a good treat but something really was wrong. Horror films are made by the dozen these days but that doesn't mean horror is easy to succeed in, for a lot of these new films flop because something is seriously lacking as in this one. The best horror films have really an underlying tension that isn't obvious but rather subtle and just scratching at the surface up till the very end. Maybe The Reaping was just trying too hard to be so creepy and so shocking that instead it got sappy and overdrammatic. I think in some parts it was exactly that. I also think Swank is just an overrated actress who can't do well without a strong cast behind her- and she just had an average horror movie cast in the Reaping.
I don't recommend this movie unless you just really are into these type of stories like I am. 3/5
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