"The Reaping" is a work with great expectations, but after its official release, the word-of-mouth and box office were mediocre. The film is not completely unattractive. The problem is that it is a movie composed of 90 points of special effects, 70 points of plot, and 50 points of rhythm. The film reproduces the plague of locusts and the disaster of fire on the big screen. In particular, the visual effects of the overwhelming locusts are refreshing. The effects of horror and horror are delivered intuitively with the help of computer special effects, and the behind-the-scenes team of the film is controlled. Filmmaker Joe Silver naturally has a guarantee for special effects; the screenwriter Hayes Brothers contributed a more qualified script after the movie "Horror Wax Museum". The setting of Angels and Satan is difficult because of the theme of the movie. The concept of the suspense town is quite good. However, the movie "Detective of the Final Thorns" has the jade in front, which slightly reduces the freshness of the film. The film has a poor grasp of the rhythm. The director Stephen Hawkins obviously brought the habit of shooting TV into "The Reaping". The details are too cumbersome. Most of the first half of the plot is procrastinated, and the latter is too fast for a short period. This became the fatal wound of the film. The sound and picture level of the film is average, the video is slightly grainy, the clarity is affected to a certain extent, the color performance is acceptable, the black level diving is basically up to the standard, and some night scenes and indoor scenes also have good performance. The special effects scenes of the film are still quite important for sound effects. They have done their homework in dynamic sound effect positioning and detail capture. In the last scene of a fireball from the sky, the sense of protection of the entire sound field is enough, but if there is a DTS soundtrack, it is enough. The icing on the cake
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The Reaping evaluation action
2022-01-06 08:02
Extended Reading
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Katherine Winter: In 1400 B.C., a group of nervous Egyptians saw the Nile turn red. But what they thought was blood was actually an algae bloom which killed the fish, which prior to that had been living off the eggs of frogs. Those uneaten eggs turned into record numbers of baby frogs who subsequently fled to the land and died. Their little rotting frog bodies attracted lice and flies. The lice carried the bluetongue virus, which killed 70% of Egypt's livestock. The flies carried glanders, a bacterial infection which in humans causes boils. Soon afterwards, the Nile River Valley was hit with a three-day sandstorm otherwise known as the plague of darkness. During the sandstorm, intense heat can combine with an approaching cold front to create not only hail, but also electrical storms which would have looked to the ancient Egyptians like fire from the sky. The subsequent wind would have blown the Ethiopian locust population off course and right into downtown Cairo. Hail is wet, locusts leave droppings, spread both on grain, and you have got mycotoxins. Dinnertime in ancient Egypt meant the first-born child got the biggest portion, which in this case, meant he ate the most toxins, so he died. Ten plagues. Ten scientific explanations.
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Doug Blackwell: [about dead fish] When did this start?
Sheriff Cade: This morning. Bubbled up like farts in a bathtub.