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It's a lame supernatural thriller

The Covenant (English)

Director: Renny Harlin

Cast: Steven Strait, Sebastian Stan, Laura Ramsey

Renny Harlin seems to have fallen hard from his Die Hard and Deep Blue Sea days to come up with this lame supernatural thriller. There are these four boys Caleb, Reid, Tyler and Pogue, who are the sons of Ipswich. What this means is that apparently in 1692, five families of warlocks from Ipswich, Massachusetts, swore a covenant of silence to escape the Salem witch-hunts. One of the families disobeyed the covenant and was never heard of again. So that leaves these four. The way of their powers is that only the first-born son inherits them. He gets a taste of them at the age of 13 and the full deal when he turns 18. There is a downside to using the powers too. Apart from being seductive and addictive, they also age you.

Caleb is the alpha-male looking after his alcoholic mom and attracted to a new girl in school, Sarah. There is a new boy in school too, Chase, who is actually a wicked warlock from the fifth family whose master plan is to get Caleb to give up his powers on turning 18. There are a lot of tacky special effects punctuated with rain and lightening throughout, and scenes with girls hanging out in their rooms wearing next to nothing or taking showers at ungodly hours.

This is a movie that you could laugh at if you saw it for free, but paying good money for it will cause the laughter to stick in the throat.

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Mini Anthikad-Chhibber

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