rboy-47076 Review of The Reckoning

The Reckoning (2020)

Not a period piece, not a horror, not an action adventure... Is this a joke?

[1/10 · 5 February 2021]

Is somehow slotted as a period piece - which is just not connected to reality and quite annoying - the only thing remotely connected to the late 17th century is the opening scene showing a date and blurb of annoying, inaccurate, platitudes concerning witches and the plague... The sets are all wrong and disjointed, the costumes are all a mishmash of donated primary school theater garb, and the makeup - god - from the effects to the protagonist's odd, modern, yet still glamour shot tacky, cosmetics (that remain distinctly perfect the entirety of the film) all horribly distract from this amateur swiss cheese plot, insanely low budget camera work, and dialogue befitting 90's video game cut scenes (I've seen ticktoks with better cinematography.) Plague doctors with Top Hats... What? Why not baseball caps? Tenet farmers needing loans for rent, yet own bespoke flint locks, jewelry, and clothing ... What? HUGE London-esque dungeons filled with prisoners in a random countryside holding... Huh? A plague that stops being important 14 mins in... Weird as hell witch trial that makes no linear sense... This is not a period piece, not a horror movie, not an action thriller... It seems like a joke kinda... Like an episode of Xena... It is all just odd - I had to double take that this was at all connected to Neil Marshall... It just made me mad.