A Plague of a Film

Corny, cheesy, stinky. When you think of these words, usually food comes to mind, but in this case they are describing The Reaping. With Hilary Swank's career on the rise, I don't know what she was thinking or if she cringed after watching the final cut of this film because it was an absolute disaster. This is definitely one of those films that's going to end up on IMDb's Bottom 100 list because it is just that bad. Even horror film fans who would be satisfied with no plot and just tons of death and gore would be disappointed. It wasn't even scary enough to rake in the mula, like The Grudge, a complete failure of a film, did.
The acting was crap, so was the story and the plagues, which were the lifeline for the film's weak plot, just were unsatisfying and barely scary. The high point of the film was where we see that the entire river has turned to blood, a shocking spectacle, but despite the one cool plague the other nine were given such brief screen time and were not in the least bit scary, I just found myself saying "ew" a few times, and for someone like me who is totally squeamish when it comes to bugs, i wasn't disturbed in the least when the locusts came out. Kind of pathetic for a horror film don't you think?
At the end of the film I was just glad I didn't actually pay to see this movie.

Grade: D