The Reaping

This one took a long time to finally get a release, and it’s fairly obvious why. Hilary Swank stars as a miracle debunker, a former preacher on a one-woman crusade to show the world that God doesn’t exist, and that believing in miracles is for suckers. It’s just another riff on devil worshipping and the apocalypse, featuring truly awful special effects and a mystery that is far too easy to solve. Swank, a two-time Oscar winner, for God’s sake, tries to make the most of this mess, but things are going bad for you when your main co-star is the idiot from Basic Instinct 2 (David Morrissey). Stephen Rea makes a couple of brief appearances as the priest who knows Swank is in for a whole lot of trouble, because God has sent “a sign.” It’s amazing that an actress of Swank’s status could wind up in shit like this. This is her second clunker this year after the weak Freedom Writers. New agent time, Hilary. New agent time.