Starring:Hilary Sawnk, David Morrissey, Stephen Rea, Idris Elba, Anna Robb, William Ragsdale, Andrea Frankle
Director:
Stephen Hopkins (Lost in Space, Predator 2)
Release Date:
April 2007
Synopsis:
In the wake of a devastating tragedy that killed every member of her family, Christian missionary Katherine Morrissey (Hilary Swank) loses her faith in God, devoting the rest of her life to debunking religious phenomena with the principles of science. But when she's called to a small Southern town to investigate a series of strange occurrences that appear to be biblical plagues, she runs out of logical explanations.
My Two Cents:
There are some serious problems with this movie. There, you don’t even need to keep reading. Still here, fine, I’ll type some more stuff. I only have two questions: why did Hilary Swank accept this role after winning not one, but two Oscars for best leading actress, and why is the movie called The Reaping instead of The Heaping, as in a heaping pile of horse manure.
OK, so Hilary Swank’s character, Katherine, travels to the small town where a river has suddenly turned blood red, and the townsfolk are blaming a 12-year-olg girl. It seems this kid killed her older brother in the river, and since then weird stuff has been happening there. So Katherine gets there, studies the water and the surrounding areas, and has an encounter with Lauren, the girl, and from that point on she gets insane daydreams, hallucinations and nightmares. She says science can explain everything, so I’m sure there’s a logical explanation for this. Soon enough frogs start falling from the sky, and not just any frogs, big-ass, bloated, dead frogs. Then one by one all the 7 plagues start happening through so-so special effects, and Katherine slowly forgets science and starts shitting herself like she should have done as soon as the frog thing started happening.
It turns out Lauren’s family has been part of a satanic cult trying to resurrect the devil, or something, and Lauren is that incarnation. But Katherine wants to protect Lauren. What? So she knows she’s the devil, but is not afraid of her. That’s a problem for me because if she’s not afraid, why would I be afraid? This is supposed to be a horror movie, so should I feel scared or at least anxious? Apparently not. It gets even weirder and more stupid near the end, with an impossible and incoherent plot twist, but I won’t spoil it for you if you’re planning to see this garbage someday. I haven’t seen an ending so bad and predictable since Skeletor appeared after the end credits of 1987’s Masters of the Universe to say he would be back. He wasn’t…
Rating:
My Two Cents:
There are some serious problems with this movie. There, you don’t even need to keep reading. Still here, fine, I’ll type some more stuff. I only have two questions: why did Hilary Swank accept this role after winning not one, but two Oscars for best leading actress, and why is the movie called The Reaping instead of The Heaping, as in a heaping pile of horse manure.
OK, so Hilary Swank’s character, Katherine, travels to the small town where a river has suddenly turned blood red, and the townsfolk are blaming a 12-year-olg girl. It seems this kid killed her older brother in the river, and since then weird stuff has been happening there. So Katherine gets there, studies the water and the surrounding areas, and has an encounter with Lauren, the girl, and from that point on she gets insane daydreams, hallucinations and nightmares. She says science can explain everything, so I’m sure there’s a logical explanation for this. Soon enough frogs start falling from the sky, and not just any frogs, big-ass, bloated, dead frogs. Then one by one all the 7 plagues start happening through so-so special effects, and Katherine slowly forgets science and starts shitting herself like she should have done as soon as the frog thing started happening.
It turns out Lauren’s family has been part of a satanic cult trying to resurrect the devil, or something, and Lauren is that incarnation. But Katherine wants to protect Lauren. What? So she knows she’s the devil, but is not afraid of her. That’s a problem for me because if she’s not afraid, why would I be afraid? This is supposed to be a horror movie, so should I feel scared or at least anxious? Apparently not. It gets even weirder and more stupid near the end, with an impossible and incoherent plot twist, but I won’t spoil it for you if you’re planning to see this garbage someday. I haven’t seen an ending so bad and predictable since Skeletor appeared after the end credits of 1987’s Masters of the Universe to say he would be back. He wasn’t…
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1 Comment:
I have a comment. Lauren is not the incarnation, at least of the devil. the towns people SAID she was so Katherine would kill Lauren, who is an ANGEL.
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