 The supernatural horror flick The Reaping is reaping a whole lot of horrible reviews, despite the fact that it stars two-time Oscar winner Hilary Swank. "Ludicrous and overstuffed," Michael Phillips calls it in the Chicago Tribune. It's a "pretentious scarefest of plagues landing in theaters the week of Passover," Desson Thomson remarks in the Washington Post. Manohla Dargis in the New York Times describes it as a "schlock-o-rama" and a lot of "hooey." And although Swank doesn't come across badly in the film, many critics noted, virtually all of them wonder, as Claudia Puig does in USA Today why she "would have agreed to star in such a laughably bad movie." |
