Francois Thurston
Yep definite plot spoilers.OMG This film, put simply... Rocked.From casting decisions (Yay to whom ever cast Steven Straight, he was simply born for the role!) to story-line I had fun all the way. OH and the Lighting! I never comment on lighting because to me, that's a background thing I never care to comment on, but damn the Covenant did really well! Every single scene I just loved the dark lighting, it was perfect.I started watching this film seeing nothing more than a poster (which is not normal for me as normally I see a trailer or 2) and right from the get go (when they drove the car over the cliff to get away from the cops) I was hooked! I found myself screaming with glee watching the car go over the cliff he he.The CGI was awesome, from the black-eyes to the execution of powers. OK so Sarah was a little blah, but I can understand why they needed her (not to discredit the actress, I was just personally hoping her character would get powers too).The final fight scene totally kicked ass. I loved the entire scene! The only thing that Im really really stuck on is how there is no sequel to this film. Regardless of if you loved it or hated it, the film left open ended as no one knows exactly what happened to Chase. So I feel let down that that specific loose end was never tied up. If anything they should have just left the firemen scene out of the film altogether and just gone from Sarah waking up - to driving off and fixing the windows of the car. But again I just want to say how much I loved this film! I could watch it 100 times a year and still not be sick of it. Were the guys hot? Yes. But was that why I loved it? No. I genuinely loved the whole magical storyline! Well done Renny Harlin 10/10
GL84
After transferring into a new school, a woman learns that her group of friends belong to an old family of witches hoping to protect their family's long-held powers when a similar witch arrives looking to settle a long-held dispute.This turned out to be quite a fun if slightly flawed witchcraft effort. One of it's better qualities is the rather enjoyable time this spends setting up the group and their powers, as the beginning of this features their quest for avoidance and ignorance by their arrival at the party with it's supposed escape resulting from a fine CGI-enhanced car chase through the woods. These early scenes do well to set-up the second half which offers far more overt displays of power as they begin using their supernatural powers to great effect as the onset of the different curses, the magical fixing abilities and especially the brawling which is all sorts of fun. The scenes of them flying around into numerous obstacles around the room after being hit with supernatural powers makes scenes like the battle on the highway, the fight in the bar-alley and the beat-down in the dorm-room being quite fun while letting loose with the supernatural abilities in grand style. Most impressive with this style is the barn-finale, which showcases their dynamic powers into truly fantastic action-packed spectacle scenes of their powers flying around into the situation and being a really nice fight overall. Also impressive here is the attempts at suspense which comes off really well as the supposed encounter in the bathroom and the continuous visions of the dead student around their lives there's a really healthy mix of positive points to help this one overcome the few small problematic areas in here. The biggest issue in here is based off the films' positive as the over-the-top display of their supernatural powers looks quite lame and unrealistic. Basically this just devolves into someone standing around as a series of lame CGI shock-waves come out of his body while the other one goes flying around on wires which looks utterly unrealistic and even manages to take away the horror built up through the rest of the film. The other flaw here is the toned-down feeling here as the rating really ends up holding this one from letting loose with their powers or spells which are never as gruesome or intense as they could've been to staying in check with the rating. These here are what hold this one down.Rated PG-13: Violence, Language and Brief Nudity.
Critic Breeki
I don't really have much to say about this film.The Dialouge is bad, the Character development is REALLY bad, and the plot is... I don't even have a word.And another thing...It sucks at being a horror film. Seriously. After the film had finished, I thought the genres it would get on IMDb were: Action, Fantasy, Thriller. Then I saw that Horror was also there, and I thought to myself *WHY????* It made the film even worse for me (Horror is my second favourite genre, with Thriller being my favourite)I wouldn't bother with this film. If you see it in the shop, don't buy it.
SnoopyStyle
There is the Power that people have harnessed over the centuries. After the persecution of the Salem witch trials, the Sons of Ipswich form a covenant of silence keeping a 300 year old secret. Four friends Caleb Danvers (Steven Strait), Pogue Parry (Taylor Kitsch), Tyler Simms (Chace Crawford) and Reid Garwin (Toby Hemingway) are all warlocks descendants of a coven of witches. The boys are from Spenser Academy, Sarah Wenham (Laura Ramsey) is the new girl, and Kate Tunney (Jessica Lucas) is their friend. There is a fifth line of witches long thought lost. Chase Collins (Sebastian Stan) is another kid in the school.The powers are way too magical, way too random, and way too powerful. It's unreasonable for anybody to keep this a secret. There are no rules to their powers and it's hard to see its limits. The guys are interchangeable. There are too many lookalike pretty boys. Quite frankly, Steven Strait doesn't have it to stand out as the lead in this movie. Also it doesn't really set up the danger that well. The movie generally rambles on and on without any flow. It is in need of a villain early on for the guys to battle. Instead it's trying to be a mystery as to who the villain is and I don't really care. It's just not that compelling.