The Reaping

felt like a souped-up halloween version of NCIS, but still good! the DVD quality was spot on, no scratches and never skipt, have watched multiple times since received!

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Good not great but good movie.

I loved the action, special effects, plot twists, and in the end the beautiful anna sophia robb being the angel of God on Earth come to slay the wicked was simply awesome! I absolutely loved the plot and the acting and sound were superb. Hillary Swank was excellent as well. They could not have cast these two better.I think Idris Elba was mis-cast -- probably to politically-correctly couterbalance the first part of the film where Hillary Swank's family was killed by machete for voodoo reasons in Africa by blacks... Can't have blacks being the voodoo bad guys and that's it. Come to think of it, the whole film was aimed at the plantation / deep traditional south types as being just as voodoo as the Africans -- a sort of spiritual affirmative-action? There is only one problem. We know the average IQ of Africans is around 67, but for American whites the average is over 100... so that part was hard to swallow. Africans are way more voodoo than southern whites ever dreamed of being. (That's why they turn the Catholicism that colonialists forced on them into Santeria..). So what's up with that? Lets stop beating up on southerners and promoting negative stereotypes that are untrue. Pretty nitpicky, I know... At least it was not as blatantly political as "Villiage of the Damned" or "Schindlers List" or something. This part of the review can be chalked up to my personal views though -- I HATE POLITICS. Why does it ALWAYS have to rear it's ugly head in my movies? I don't like feeling like I'm being taught something at a Norman Lear festival (you know, mr. TV-shows-are-for-social-engineering himself.) I don't like commercials, not even more subtle 2-hour ones for anyone's non-universal interests or greed. There. Rant done.Other than that, I truly do not understand the negative reviews (except by maybe religious or southern religious people...?). This was a great movie -- suspenseful, gripping, powerful. Great acting. Great sound. Great special effects. If you liked Anna Sophia Robb in "Because of Winn-Dixie" and "Bridge to Terabithia" then you will love her in this too as an angel of God. She is great.

Ok movie

Good movie with excellent twists

Great Movie, story-driven, and great twists throughout the movie.

Good movie

Very good movie, enjoyed it. There's a Stephen King feel about this movie but not exactly. Unusual happenings in a bible belt town in the US brings an expert investigator who has always had scientific explanations to the miracles she has investigated. However this time she has tough questions to answer. Enjoyed the ending too. Actors do a great job too. Surprised that I did not hear about this movie before. Only bought it as HD DVD's were going very cheap at present. I would have given it 4.5 or 5 stars for enjoyment, but gave 4 stars as there are other movies and classics like some academy winning movies, and this is a comparative rating.Also the HD DVD picture quality is very good.

As decribed and quite fast

This is a comment for the French language customers only.Attention, comme à son habitude Warner à mis une mauvaise piste audio française sur ce bluray ! Contrairement à ce que la jaquette indique, le film n'est pas dubbed in Quebec mais en french Parisian, donc version de France, qui est absolument atrocement mal doublé !Gardez précieusement votre DVD qui lui est bien en français dubbed in Quebec.

Les films biblique comme celui-ci sont rares mais il existent, il y en as un de temps en temps qui sortent. Les films Satanique sont eux légions surtout ces dernières années, par contre tous ne se finissent pas avec l'aide de Dieux, ou montrent la crédibilité de son existence, celui-ci fait exception a cette règle.En général les films bibliques sont justes des films historique dans le fond, par contre celui-ci est un Thriller fantastique au Scénar sotant des sentier connue, et doubler d'une grosse prod signé J.Silver&R.Zemeckis (ceux qui connaissent pas le producteur ds Armes Fatales ou le réal ds Back to the Future ?) qui ne manque pas de moyen.Même si l'équipe a subie le fameux ouragan Katrina ce qui a juste rallenti le tournage, et la diversité des décors de fin, malgré le lieux (la Louisiane, la Floride ou la Nouvelle Orléans me rappel pu).Sinon pour parler du film qui raconte l'histoire de 2 chercheurs qui démystifie les miracles et qui ont tous les 2 leurs histoires, surtout le perso joué par H.Swank (Million Dollar Baby/Le Dalhia Noir) qui est l'héroine du film.Est a la recherche des 10 plais d'Egypte sur une petite ville, qui serait causé par une petite fille de 12ans, et qui elle est joué par une Anniasophia Rob (qu'on peut voir sur l'affiche très réussie) très convaincante ds le côté mystérieux. Lié de près a celui de Katherine Winter (H.Swank), mais No Spoil !. Un film au scénario plus recherché que celui qu'on pourrai attendre de l'histoire de base, un réal du nom de Stephen Hopkins qui n'a jamais fait de mauvais films, une distribution très réussie dont Stephen Rea (La Compagnie des Loups/ Underwold 4) dans un rôle a part, et un final des plus génial !Que je ne spoileraie pas + mais qui mélange le Satanisme pour un (des?) retournement de situation plus que bien trouvé (je sais je me répète).Pour finir de très bon bonus sur ce Dvd dont un de 15/20mn sur les Dix Plais d'Egypte et leurs réalité scientifique raconté par des savants et prêtre, très intéressant.

Terrible quality. Hard to watch. Watched it once and put it in the garbage. This is some sort of copy and not done well !!!