Review – The Covenant

This movie does for warlocks what Underworld did for vampires: it takes a run-of-the-mill plot and smears it with a stifling load of blue-filtered, jump-cut, flying-around-on-wires-combat-sequence, teen-angst-ridden, MTV-style faux hipness. Some of the fight scenes are mildly diverting. But they comprise a relatively small chunk of the running time, most of which is devoted to long exchanges between protagonists who can be distinguished from each other and from their enemies only by their hairstyles (and sometimes not even then). By the time it finally boils down to a battle between the two main characters, I found myself mumbling, “if these guys toss one more glob of computer-animated witch goo at each other, I’m really going to have to turn this thing off.” Fortunately it ended shortly thereafter. See if desperate