Why is it so hard to have a really good horror movie nowadays? One would aspect for a movie to be starring a credible award winning actress like Hilary Swank to be of substance but unfortunately again it is one of the run of the mill devil theme movies in the likes of Wicker Man (Nicholas Cage), Devil's Advocate (Al Pacino), etc.... The Reaping brings nothing new to the genre accept a continuous run of disappointing horror movies that's from US. The movie starts by introducing us to Hilary Swank's character in South America one of her many myth debunking trips. It seemed that her obsessions to debunk miracles were due to her loosing her child and husband during her ordained life as a priest 5 years ago. Yeah you read right..she was a servant of god before she turned into a crusader of anti-god....what else can you say about someone who goes around to proof god related miracles as false? Anyway someone came over to seek her help about a mysterious river turned red after a child accused of murdering her brother by the river in a town named Haven. Well of she goes with her sidekick who by the way is a god fearing man that makes no sense why he is with her considering her mission is to discredit god's miracles around the world. To cut long story short, the whole town is full of devil worshipers and she was called to instead of solving the case of red river, dieing livestocks, grasshoppers, etc...etc..the whole end of the world thing...she was supposed to kill the child as no one else seemed to be able to. You see she was an angel and a second child and she was supposed to end the devil's take over the world. So instead of killing the angel child, Swank got her to decimate the entire community of Haven. By the way as such movie goes at the end credit, she found out that she was pregnant after a lucid sex dream with the devil's priest, and that the child she is carrying is the ultimate devil's child. Now if you think the plots or potholes are your cup of tea then go and watch it.....2/10
