The Covenant (2006)

Plot; Four young men, the descendants of Colonial witch families, prepare for The Ascension; a time when they will come to posses great power, but at a terrible cost. Plays a lot like The Craft, but without, well, the craft. Looking like a mid-90s WB pilot, it has lots of pretty people, a poorly thought out mythology and not a whole lot else. Strictly for those wanting to see a pre-Winter Soldier Sebastian Stan chew scenery and spout lines like "I'm going to make you my Wee-yotch!".

Four lifelong friends, known to their college pals as The Sons of Ipswich, share a special secret: they're the descendants of a centuries old coven of witches, each possessing incredible supernatural powers. As the eldest, Caleb (Steven Strait) is to be the first of the Sons to 'ascend', his abilities becoming even stronger on his impending 18th birthday, but there is another warlock on campus who wants Caleb's special powers for himself and who will do anything it takes to succeed.Director Renny Harlin has had quite the chequered career: he made his mark in the 80s with impressive horror movie Prison, followed by the third Nightmare on Elm Street sequel, The Dream Master. In the early 90s, he became one of the big Hollywood action movie directors, helming successful blockbusters like Die Hard 2 and Cliffhanger. Then came the mega-budget disaster that was Cutthroat Island, after which Harlin bounced back with excellent The Long Kiss Goodnight. His first films of the new millennium were the god-awful Driven, followed by the mediocre Mindhunters.Next up was The Covenant, a supernatural thriller aimed squarely at the teenage market. Harlin opens his film with a scene highly reminiscent of a key moment in The Lost Boys, his four gifted protagonists jumping off a high cliff to disappear into the fog below; but where The Lost Boys was a whole lot of unpretentious fun that benefited from a great cast and witty writing, The Covenant is a virtually joyless affair, with a bland script from J.S. Cardone (whose other work includes crap slasher The Slayer and the equally dreadful vampire flick The Forsaken), forgettable performances from a cast chosen primarily for their good looks, and Harlin desperately relying on unimpressive CGI special effects to try and add a modicum of interest to affairs, to no avail.With one uninspired scene after another, the film builds painfully to a predictable climax in which Caleb faces his nemesis for a supernatural duel to the death. Undemanding teenage girls might enjoy the film for its frequent shots of shirtless hunks, while sexy Sarah Wenham, as Caleb's girlfriend Sarah, takes a PG-friendly shower for the benefit of the male viewers. Other than the eye-candy, there's very little to recommend this clunker to the young or old.

The Covenant movie was like every other urban legend movie that was made before. It had its mystic creature's (in this case male witches). There was the hot damsel in distress (Laura Ramsey), and it had the lost mystic group member that went stray, now he returned to make trouble.Like every other teenage movie it had a lot of pretty boys and girls … actually there were only 1.5 hot girls (the blond was a looker while the other one was nothing special). Those boys and girls supposed to be college students but all they do is party all night, swim in their college team, use their powers to show off, fight between themselves and try to stay awake during their classes. That is strange, from what I remember of my college years I had to work really hard and I didn't had a spare minute to waste. I guess the boys and girls from The Covenant are gifted and everything comes easy for them.The acting from most of the participants was …OK, the Covenant's cast has nothing to brag about, their performance was tolerable.The action and special effects were below average. The guys through invisible balls that supposedly blew up and caused fires, they could do so much better than that. Is it so hard to create a fire ball in CGI or make them through huge stones. Everything is better than an invisible ball of jellyfish they used all the time.Although the special effects sucked in the Covenant, the visual scenes and the way the movie was shot was very well done. Renny Harlin managed to bring classic Europe to The Covenant. The castles with the beautiful landscapes made the viewing experience better than expected.Overall this movie was average. I didn't follow most of the plot because when i was watching the movie i was exhausted from a long day at work, i was on neutral smeared on my chair. The only reason that the covenant can be considered as a cool movie is the fact that I wasn't my 100% watching it. If you are really tired (like i was) or really drunk like i wished to be, you will enjoy the Covenant.for more cool review check out - http://www.coolreviewsrule.com

The result is pretty annoying as someone got the idea to combine a teen movie and a vampire-type mystery. But the movie was made in 2006! Thus, it is strange that showing muscular male torsos, smooth female legs, kisses in the rain / during lightning, nervous relationships, college competition etc, on the one hand, and flying in the air, insects in bodies and in dreams, aged youth, flashing eyes etc, on the other hand, could create a good entertainment. The scenes are stupid at times and no actor is interesting to watch, it seems they were picked thanks to their model-like appearance.Renny Harlin has made stuff of different quality, but this could have been avoided. Additional points from me due to shortness - 1,5h was not too painful :)