The Reaping

From the director who brought us classics like "Nightmare on Elm Street 5", "Lost in Space", and "Predator 2", we're given another crappy movie with "The Reaping". The ten plagues reappear in a small Southern town and the citizens think a girl from the bayou is causing them. So they pack their pickups with shotguns and head out for a lynching.

Okay, so the plot is weak, but I must say, the special effects help hold it up pretty good. For anyone who remembers watching the horrible effects in "The Seventh Sign", this movie is a refreshing look at how far we've come. The river of blood was quite impressive and I'm still scratching my head on how they pulled it off. The locusts were also impressive.

Other than the special effects, the only other thing going for the movie is its sense of tension and scare. The movie does pull off some pretty tense moments and some jump-out-of-seat moments; but only in the theater. On your home TV it's going to lose a lot of its punch.

I think the most disappointing element of the film is the weak ending. The movie could have ended a whole host of entertaining ways but it went with a cop out ending that felt rushed, incomplete and hollow.

Rating: 6 out of 10