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(1 - 34) of 34 OFCS Rating: 3% Rotten Page   1   D+ "It's a horror experience coated in a sticky slime of inertia; a story of wrath and booming heavenly might that suffers from narcolepsy and stage fright."   OhmyNews.com   Brian Orndorf D- "In a movie with no purpose beyond small-scale grotesque spectacle, I can only imagine its purpose as a cinematic waiting room for the end of the world where the guy in charge isn't capable of counting to ten."   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey "That Ben (Idris Elba) is the sensible sign reader from jump only makes the folks around him look sillier."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 1/5 "The most striking image in 'The Reaping' is a repeated shot of unusual looking wind chimes blowing in the breeze. By continually panning his camera to the chimes, director Stephen Hopkins unknowingly admits that the rest of his movie isn't worth watching."   eFilmCritic.com   Dan Lybarger C- "Hilary Swank wades through bitchin' plagues and comes out looking hot. Film at 11. DVD at 11:30."   EDGE Boston   David Foucher 2/4 "Swank maintains one's rapt attention but Stephen Hopkins's plague-a-thon is one grim reaper, reminiscent of the recent 'Skeleton Key with neither skeletons nor keys."   rec.arts.movies.reviews   David N. Butterworth 1/5 "Hillary Swank is a minister AND a scientist! No, I'm not making this up. Please, stop laughing."   eFilmCritic.com   Dawn Taylor 0.5/4 "Ungodly awful."   TheMovieBoy.com   Dustin Putman 1.5/4 "Disguises its utter lack of significance beneath incoherent backtracking, old-school-religion brouhaha, and a soundtrack of traditional soul music."   Slant Magazine   Ed Gonzalez C- "Ads for The Reaping ask 'What hath God wrought?,' but I don't think it's fair to pin this on Him."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 1/4 "Takes us down a brimstone path of idiocy and outright boredom punctuated by a soundtrack which goes to eleven every time a character sees more than one object in their field of vision."   eFilmCritic.com   Erik Childress C- "If you turn away from God and do not repent, God will kill you. You will die. The end."   Film Blather   Eugene Novikov 1.5/4 "Let's face it, folks...The Reaping is one eerie cinematic Easter ham that will be tough to swallow."   TheWorldJournal.com   Frank Ochieng D- "An unholy mixture of religious balderdash and horror-movie cliche...it would probably be wise to Passover it."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 1/5 "The only good thing about this supernatural thriller is that the atheist finally comes to see that most of the evil in the world is caused not by Satan but by human fear and hatred."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat 1.5/4 "Upon reflection, it's not difficult to understand why The Reaping languished for so long on the shelves of Warner Brothers before being dumped into distribution. The film, despite attempts at edit-room reparation, is virtually unreleasable."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 4/10 "I did like the bugs."   DVDTown.com   John J. Puccio 2/5 "click for review"   Movies for the Masses   Joseph Proimakis 2.5/5 "Is this movie a good old-fashioned good versus evil potboiler or a newfangled political statement about anti-intellectualism? The Reaping could have gone either way, but it did neither, and it did so spectacularly."   rec.arts.movies.reviews   Karina Montgomery 2.0/4.0 "... attempt(s) to convince audiences that the real story is one of faith while at the same time handing out enough special effects to convince any (skeptic)..."   MovieCrypt.com   Kevin A. Ranson 1/5 "The Reaping suffers from the plague of a terrible script... The story floundered around like a drunk at Mardi Gras."   Film School Rejects   Kevin Carr 1.5/4 "A mess of theological ponderings, cheap twists and turns, and cheesy stylistic choices."   Mark Reviews Movies   Mark Dujsik C- "Like a southern fried X-Files, The Reaping explores peculiar incidents with a mix of belief and skepticism, at least for a time, but it loses its potency as paranormal answers become verified."   Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema   Mark Pfeiffer "Forget a plague of boils -- how about a plague of boredom followed by a plague of oh-my-god-is-it-really-this-bad-for-women-in-Hollywood?"   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 2/4 "The Reaping is a bad movie, but it also achieves a level of preposterousness that is somewhat entertaining for all the wrong reasons."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan D "What once held some promise of being a clever film explodes into a mess of trite plot devices and sad attempts to explain the rapidly degenerating vision of the filmmakers, who seem hell-bent (pardon the pun) on imparting some sort of religious lesson."   Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies   Nell Minow 1.5/5 "Can she unravel the mystery before the loving and merciful God smites every firstborn child? And most importantly, can a black sidekick survive to the end of a horror movie?"   Film Threat   Pete Vonder Haar 2.5/5 "Starting as an intriguing faith-themed thriller, this film quickly descends into gonzo nuttiness."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline D "Fool! Dost thou not know that creepy children have cursed our screens in numbers too great to count, and by now, we find them marginally less terrifying than navel lint?"   Flipside Movie Emporium   Rob Vaux 1.5/5 "When a movie can't even make something like "biblical plagues" worth watching, you just know you're in the hands of filmmakers as lazy as they are lost."   Cinematical   Scott Weinberg 1/5 "Trouble sleeping? Try The Reaping."   Filmcritic.com   Sean O'Connell 3/10 "When a thriller starring two-time Oscar-winner Hilary Swank sits on the shelf for a year, it's usually because it's cinematic rubbish."   www.susangranger.com   Susan Granger 1/4 "Has consummate, dedicated emptiness as its only lingering aftertaste."   Film Freak Central   Walter Chaw 1.5/4 Read review   Big Picture Big Sound   Joe Lozito  (1 - 34) of 34 OFCS Rating: 3% Rotten Page   1