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The Reaping takes the subject matter seriously, and it is quite suspenseful
Staci Layne Wilson
Horror.com
The Reaping is better than Dark Castle Entertainment's more recent previous films (House of Wax, Gothika, and Ghost Ship), so here's hoping for more of the same in the future from the successful production company...

Drags on interminably through all the plagues and then adds a new one.
Andrea Chase
Killer Movie Reviews
Just in time for Passover, Easter, and/or any other equinoctial festival on your liturgical calendar comes THE REAPING, an abomination of a film to put the fear of God in us all with its sheer awfulness. Then again, one can with some merit ponder why an all-knowing Being would allow such as this to happen. I leave it to cooler theological heads to tackle that one...

Religious horror with multiple shocks but little substance.
Kirk Honeycutt
Hollywood Reporter
If you were to put together a horror film by committee, it would look a lot like "The Reaping." Someone would suggest borrowing from "The Omen," which would lead someone else to propose lifting from "The Exorcist" and perhaps a third person would pitch an ending twist reminiscent of "Rosemary's Baby."...

The horror film has become Hollywood's primary vehicle for addressing matters of faith.
Justin Chang
Variety
Few recent studio horror pictures have courted (or, depending on one's perspective, pandered to) a Christian audience as blatantly as "The Reaping." Revisiting the book of Exodus in a feverish Southern-gothic context, this lurid, often ludicrously entertaining slab of Biblesploitation builds an earnest case for spirituality in a skeptical age. As demonstrated by the thematically similar "The Exorcism of Emily Rose," there's an audience for this kind of faith-based sensationalism, and the chance to see righteous acts of Old Testament payback spectacularly re-enacted on the bigscreen should help Warner Bros. reap solid theatrical turnout, with an even richer ancillary harvest...