The Reaping
There’s been a bit of a Hillary Swank fest lately, with ‘Freedom Writers’ and ‘The Reaping’ both appearing on the new release shelves at Video Ezy at virtually the same time. I got aroud to hiring out the latter while I was on holiday.
“Thousands of years ago there was a series of bizarre occurrences that many believed to have been the Ten Biblical Plagues. No one thought they could happen again. Until now.”
Sounded cheesy.
But I’ll watch anything and I’d read that there were some pretty wild special effects in this one, so decided to give it a whirl.
Without giving too much away, I have to say that while the visual effects aren’t exactly ground-breaking or academy-award winning material, they are nothing short of impressive and effective for the film. The river of blood - I guess CGI - was extremely well done, quite a faultless representation.
Biblical plagues arrive in the town and scientists are sent out to ‘disprove’ the religious theory. And have quite some trouble doing so.
There are plenty of cheap scares - and the plot is a little hard to follow sometimes, but there was something about this one. I enjoyed it, even though it wasn’t spectacular.
Link: The Reaping at IMDB
katie said,
October 2, 2007 @ 8:48 pm
Sounds like a movie we could have watched on my telly?
Gosh we haven’t seen much of each other lately. I don’t even know your happenings. That’s really really sad