The Covenant

I don't understand why this film has such a low rating on IMDb.

There are a couple of things that could have been improved on.

Firstly is the colour grading. Some of the shots (particularly the external ones) are not well balanced, and often the colour grading does not make sense to the viewer - thereby leading to some confusion about the relationship of one scene to the next or it's place in the story.

Next are some of the CGI effects. The effects are appropriate for the scene, but are not integrated well.

Apart form those couple of things, technically the film is OK and are soon forgiven as the story unfolds.

All of the actors do a good job of portraying the characters, and I felt there was a genuine connection between them in relation to the story being told.

All in all it is a film worth watching, and worth more than the low rating on IMDb.

What we have here, is a basic Exorcist type horror. It looks bad, is acted bad and the script is bad. There is no real horror or suspense, so one could say the movie fails at everything but it's not actually catastrophically bad.

I personally enjoyed the story. The acting and vfx were quite good (except for the demon one, I'm sorry...). Probably bit more development of the characters would have neen nice.

Besides that, I would say the color doesn't help. It was not balanced and you could notice the difference between scenes, which makes the audience lose track. And as a musician myself, definitely I have to say there was extreeeeemely low work on it. Lot of noise between dialogues and zero music!!! Seriously... this movie needed much more work. Sound effects were weak, and, as I said, zero zero music. That reaaaally made me sad.

A weakly written script and unrealistic performance of the lead roles with quite intensive screenplay.

I don't know what "well acted" movie other reviewers saw but I can't imagine it was this one. The acting was HORRIBLE, the story was old and used up, the cinematography was embarrassing, the "effects" were a joke. This is literally one of the worst movies I have ever seen. Pass on this one, I wish I had.