Jenna Walter
The film may be flawed, but its message is not.
Bumpy Chip
It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.
Cheryl
A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.
omendata
Well not quite but check out how many 10./10 reviews there are - people seem to forget that this means its the best movie you have ever seen!Its your standard stalk and slash fair but it has the woeful Vinnie "cant act" Jones in it - How the hell do lowlifes like him get into the movies? its a disgrace - whenever I see his name in the cast list my heart sinks.Danny Trejo did his best but its just your average stalk and slash with nothing particularly interesting or memorable about it apart from the tasty blonde so it gets an extra star for her - she is to be fair quite a nice little actress and quite cute! I think I saw this before in a movie called Shocker but I think it was much better if I remember correctly - Oh and the after credits ending lol I guess they were hoping for a remake - 3 hopes - Bob Hope, Cape Of Good Hope and Nae Hope!Settle down with a few friends , a few beers and a few spliffs and this will pass an hour or so!Not as bad as some make out but not as good as all of the fake 10/10 - 1 review in their lifetime shills make out either!
swchamberlain
I am not really sure what everyone else was watching on here but I could have written better material if I ties a pencil, and piece of paper, to my nether regions and ran on the treadmill for an hour. First and foremost I only rented this movie because of the description, which has nothing, and I mean nothing, to do with the movie what so ever. It's even worse in Redbox than it is here, the description says a man was wrongly accused and executed for a crime which he did not commit and it unleashed a spirit that descends upon an unsuspecting town full of criminals who have to band together ....or something like that. Not even close to what the movie is about. There is no wrongly accused anything, no spirit, we can only assume the movie starts off weeks after the movies description so that's already over and done with and no recap on what has already transpired to get to this point. There is no story, except for the here and now, basically a bunch of people arguing who are just as clueless of whats going on as the audience, no information leading up to what has happened, no closure, just a bunch of over dramatic, over exaggerated actors, who keep you guessing on what is happening. You can kind of piece together what was in the movie, towards the end, but it takes you a bit since there really is no closure of any sort. We did, however, get a lot of smug grins from the characters despite what had just happened, ten minutes beforehand, like they are top dog in the locker room at a high school basketball game, or something, and when they really did nothing but argue scream and cry through the entire ordeal. Now, I understand this was a low budget film, and I am a big fan of a lot of low budget movies, but this was so unrealistic it was kind of watching the old revenge of the killer tomatoes with the original nightmare on elm street blood and gore.....At least attack of the killer tomatoes was entertaining ... Lame!
drdeathforpresident
yawn - that would be the whole review.Beware of movie trailers, in fact, don't watch them anymore. I've learned my lesson. The story, just like the dialogue, is simple and stupid. A runaway gets picked up by a drunk, horny salesman. They end up in a hotel where the dye job blonde whips the salesman with a belt repeatedly (which he oddly enjoys) then ties his ass to a chair. She steals his wallet and his piece of crap car and hightails it outta there. The car, just like the film, runs out of gas. Now comes the B story. Two drug dealers hanging out in a restaurant are popping blue pills that look like Viagra. Where the hell is The Reaper? We are 30 minutes into this and nothing happens except now my eyelids are closing. The blonde backs into the young dealer and somehow they become friends and now she is driving his ass to a liquor store. The dumb ass dealer gets out of the car leaving a bunch of money in her possession so she takes off. Long story short, about 45 minutes into this we are introduced to Danny Trejo's character. The blonde and Danny go back to the hotel. She pulls a gun on Danny and the young drug dude - The Reaper finally shows up again, this time killing everyone in his path and I'm left wondering why? Why didn't anyone kill this dumb broad & why was Danny Trejo's character so damn submissive and forgiving? Come on, Danny Boy. Is it the child support payments?
mickjj
An engaging little chiller which pays nice tribute to some of its more high- budget predecessors, "Reaper" is a formula-tested slasher flick with some good performances and a familiar but welcome vibe.A manipulative hitchhiker. A ruthless crime boss. A slick drug dealer. A darkly noble truck driver. A religious zealot. A trigger happy cop. Oh, and I forgot to mention a supernatural killer who looks a bit like Electro Man crossed with Bruce Willis at the end of "Unbreakable." Combine all of the above and you have the admittedly campy and surprisingly clever "Reaper." Any movie fan will identify the homages to classics like "Psycho," "The Shining," "From Dusk til Dawn," and "Shocker." Both mystery thriller and horror elements are nicely combined, resulting in a film that's a little Hitchcock, a little Rodriguez, and mostly just a lot of fun.
