The Covenant 2006

Critics score:
3 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

Reece Pendleton, Chicago Reader: No one has bothered to develop a coherent story or remotely likable characters to sustain the CGI effects, ear-splitting music, and hyperactive editing. Read more

Christy Lemire, Associated Press: All that's truly scary about The Covenant are the words that appear before the title: 'A Renny Harlin Film.' Read more

Amelie Gillette, AV Club: There are worse things for a horror-thriller about supernatural high-schoolers to not be. Like not scary. Or not thrilling. Or not as entertaining as an episode of Charmed. Read more

Ty Burr, Boston Globe: Anyone with half a brain is not this movie's target audience. Read more

Michael Ordona, Los Angeles Times: The Covenant is a terrible movie, a bucket of water on the teen-witch genre. Read more

Gregory Kirschling, Entertainment Weekly: This is cobbled-together teenybopper tripe about feuding male witches with nothing to offer but classic bad dialogue. Read more

Luke Y. Thompson, L.A. Weekly: The idiocy and sheer laziness of the whole concept ought to be the sort of thing director Renny Harlin (Deep Blue Sea) could make into glorious cinematic cheese...but he's hamstrung Read more

Stephen Williams, Newsday: The Covenant is just a copycat. Read more

Lisa Rose, Newark Star-Ledger: ... as chilling as a steam shower. Read more

Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: ... profoundly mediocre ... Read more

Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: [Harlin] still can stage a decent super-natural battle royale. But he couldn't scare a mouse. Nor does The Covenant. Read more

Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle: ... a supernatural teen drama that wouldn't be so bad if you didn't have to pay good money to see it. Read more

Stephen Cole, Globe and Mail: There is not a scary scene in the whole movie. Read more

Nigel Floyd, Time Out: Flying scenes, frat-boy face-offs and pyrotechnic punch-ups are punctuated by excruciating expository dialogue. Read more

Justin Chang, Variety: [A] muddled and most unmagical offering. Read more

Desson Thomson, Washington Post: [An] eardrum-punishing, uninspired composite of X-Men and the Harry Potter series ... Read more