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The cumulative effect is likely to make viewers weary, but not so weary that they can't manage a chuckle or two during the film's cheesed-out final minutes.
What could Swank really have done with such a cliche-ridden screenplay, except turn it down?
The Reaping isn't quite bad enough, or even New Testament enough, to qualify as a sign of the impending apocalypse. But by the time it's over, you know you're getting close.
A slick-looking but incredibly schlocky horror film.
The only remotely notable thing about this particular jumble of boos, bangs and door creaks is that it tries to wed the horror trend with the heated-up God market.
[Swank's] deft gestures and subtle inflections ring false, thanks to a script that forces her to follow the cliches of the genre, not break free of them.
At no time does director Stephen Hopkins give us reason to care.
Violent thriller has dark religious themes.
Although terrible, this film does raise ... interesting questions: Why does Hollywood keep ripping off THE OMEN? Why would anyone continue hiring Stephen Hopkins to direct a movie? Why would two-time Oscar-winner Hilary Swank agre to be in this mess?
Menstrual blood and unprotected sex get the occult curse treatment.
The Reaping is the motion-picture equivalent of the senior class skank who, while good at her core, comes to the prom pregnant, wasted, and carrying along her ex-con, non-baby-daddy date
Atheists should probably complain more than other religious (or is that non-religious?) group about being misrepresented by Hollywood.
The longer The Reaping is on the screen, the cornier and more predictable it becomes.... (HD DVD and DVD Combo Edition)
If The Reaping had been sown with fresher ideas, you might actually care if the devil went down to Georgia, er, Louisiana.
Is this movie a good old-fashioned good versus evil potboiler or a newfangled political statement about anti-intellectualism? The Reaping could have gone either way, but it did neither, and it did so spectacularly.
The most positive thing about The Reaping is that it isn't as big a waste of time as last year's Omen remake; it's 14 minutes shorter.
The 11th Biblical plague.
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