dvd review:the covenant

February 11, 2007 at 1:56 pm | In DVDs, Reviews, Movies, *Covenant, The | No Comments

Seeing The Covenant on the small screen make me like it a little bit more than when I saw it on the big screen, but I still agree with the C+ I gave it in my original review.

The DVD extras weren’t all that special either:

  • Commentary with director Renny Harlin
  • featurette Breaking the Silence:Exposing the Covenant

film fan finding:the covenant

September 23, 2006 at 5:17 pm | In Reviews, Movies, *Covenant, The | No Comments

Oh, Renny Harlin has sunk to new lows with The Covenant, a mediocre tale of male witches in a preppy Conneticut high school. The four “sons of Ipwich” — descendents of witches killed in the Salem witch trials — gained partial power on their 13th birthdays and will “ascend” to full witchiness on their 18th birthdays.  Caleb, the alpha dog of the foursome (and the best groomed), is turning 18 in only a few days.  He’s got a great life: new girlfriend, lots of money, good friends, swimming championship at school, and a heck of a lot of power coming to him when he ascends. Then Caleb befriends the new guy at school and trouble breaks out in Witchville.

The Covenant gets points for originality for comparing the use of witch power to drug use.  “Using” too often is addictive, seductive and detrimental to the human body.  The movie loses lots of points, however, for being predictable, silly and weak.

Film Fan Finding: C+