* out of **** Stephen Hopkins has done nothing but torture his audience throughout his lackluster career of achingly bad potboilers. He's the guy who made "Predator 2", "A Nightmare on Elm Street 5"; and on significantly better days, he's also the guy who directed "The Life and Deaths of Peter Sellers". But now, he's nearly outdone himself, as he has made "The Reaping"; a boring, stupid ship-wreck of a horror film that treats some good ideas and themes with extreme disrespect. … more
(With occasional chorus or verse from "Hazard" by Richard Marx) There's nothing much in "The Reaping" that you haven't seen before in other movies, except maybe Hilary Swank's bad hairdo and head lice that scuttle like little roaches in the path of an electric trimmer. Maybe it's a little too much Tarantino in the air since Grindhouse, but just as Vacancy rehashed the bad motel horror film genre, so "The Reaping" covers the devil worship - avenging angel theme. Hilary … more