What a DUD !!!
Added 2/3/2010
... despite the outstanding cast...
though I can't understand casting the SUPERB Irish actor, David Morrissey, as an American!!!
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One of Hilary Swank's worst films
Added 1/5/2010
Very bad acting and thought of how to manage from start to finish,from one thing jumping to another just doesn't make sense and Swank's performance bores,should consider this movie as a failure.
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GOOD TWIST
Added 9/12/2009
I THOUGHT THAT THIS MOVIE WAS GOOD AND TURNS OUT TO BE A LITTLE SCARY.
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Oh my, a lightly perspiring Swank!
Added 8/30/2009
The main problem with The Reaping is that it's entirely derivative: the basic premise is one that has been covered many times before. The film certainly looks good: you can't fault the production from a visual point of view, but what Hollywood fails to realise time and time again is that effects alone do not a movie make. The CGI is very good, with some particularly convincing digital locusts, but it's all too `in your face' and along with the tired plot line and cardboard characters, the film never engages the viewer and therefore fails to scare or shock. The overblown ending is especially unsubtle and unconvincing. There's only one revelation here and that's how sexy Hilary Swank can be!
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Nothing to get excited about . . .
Added 8/4/2009
but nothing to hate either. The biggest problem with this film is the script doesn't have a single original idea. It is a rehash of devil-worshipping movies going back to Rosemary's Baby. You get the standard windows blowing open, the priest who knows the truth but gets no one to believe him, the idiot hero (heroine in this case) going off alone into danger, the obligatory thunder storms, plagues, crazy characters, the silent stare of a supposedly evil child, and a variety of other horror movie cliches. Hilliary Swank is hardly a slouch as an actress, and I am surprised that she did a low-budget film like this, although she brought it some credibility. The acting overall was acceptable, although Englishman David Morrisey's Southern accent was more nondescript than identifiable. Idris Elba, also English, did, however, sound like an escapee from the 'hood. Watch the film but neither praise nor damn it because it deserves neither.
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What a DUD !!!
Added 2/3/2010
... despite the outstanding cast...
though I can't understand casting the SUPERB Irish actor, David Morrissey, as an American!!!
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One of Hilary Swank's worst films
Added 1/5/2010
Very bad acting and thought of how to manage from start to finish,from one thing jumping to another just doesn't make sense and Swank's performance bores,should consider this movie as a failure.
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GOOD TWIST
Added 9/12/2009
I THOUGHT THAT THIS MOVIE WAS GOOD AND TURNS OUT TO BE A LITTLE SCARY.
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