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Oct 31, 2007 · Having secured the coveted early spring release window, one would have thought 2007's The Reaping would have become an instant classic. I mean, you've got a gritty biblical horror starring Academy-award winning actress Hilary Swank who last wowed audiences in 2004's "The Bourne Supremacy" - what could go wrong?
Apr 5, 2007 · Rated: 3/5 • Nov 20, 2008. Katherine Morrissey (Hilary Swank), a former Christian missionary, lost her faith after the tragic deaths of her family. Now she applies her expertise to debunking ...
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The film’s opening is quite strong because of its ambiguity, and the film could have been an intelligent inquiry into the line between faith and rationality in the vein of Carl Sagan or Rod Serling, but instead The Reaping lets too much go too early, killing the mystery and the tension. In the conclusion, the film goes for a reversal of ...
Jan 31, 2013 · The sibling screenwriting team of Carey W. Hayes and Chad Hayes (who also wrote the surprisingly decent 2005 House of Wax) attempts to jam in all ten Old Testament plagues, Swank’s losing-her-faith background, a massive conspiracy plot, a romance, and a twist ending in a little over 90 minutes – needless to say, things feel a bit rushed and flattened, with nary a shiver raised.
Apr 16, 2007 · The Reaping (2007) Reviewed by Anna Smith. Updated 15 April 2007. Contains strong horror. Hilary Swank plays a missionary-turned-cynical-scientist in The Reaping, a religious horror-thriller ...
Apr 5, 2007 · Instead, she must regain her faith to combat the evil that waits in a Louisiana swamp. Katherine Morrissey, a former Christian missionary, lost her faith after the tragic deaths of her family. Now she applies her expertise to debunking religious phenomena. When a series of biblical plagues overrun a small town, Katherine arrives to prove that a ...
Apr 6, 2019 · Lending visual weight to the movie’s themes is the lush photography of Peter Levy, who proves you can lend a movie plenty of atmosphere without draining the images of color. For all the escalating seriousness of the situation, however, The Reaping simply isn’t very scary. The plagues are more visually striking than threatening, resulting in ...
