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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: 20th Century Fox
Salesrank: 34524
Released: June 10, 2008 |
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MPAA Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Renny Jacobson is shaken by the news of his father's mysterious death and mystified by the reference in his will to an obscure entity called "The Covenant List of South Carolina, Ltd." He sets out on a quest to learn the truth about "The List" and finds that he must fulfill a prophecy spoken in 1863 or risk losing the true treasure that has changed his life.
Description of The List:
The List, a supernatural thriller, begins at the close of the Civil War, when a cabal of Southern businessmen formed a secret pact to preserve their personal wealth. A century and a half later, a frustrated young lawyer named Renny Jacobsen (Chuck Carrington, JAG) discovers he's been cut out of his estranged father's will--but when he opens a locked box, he discovers a far more complicated inheritance that leads him to meet an attractive woman named Jo Johnston (Hilarie Burton, One Tree Hill) and the charming but mephistophelean Desmond Larochette (played by the charming but mephistophelean Malcolm McDowell), who leads the descendants of the original cabal. As Jacobsen learns how his history is tied up in this ominous list of names, he finds himself torn between his morals and his craving for money. Based on the Christian novel by Robert Whitlow, The List does its best to make the most of a low budget, focusing on character and story rather than special effects or visual style. Ultimately it's more about the power of prayer than being scary, though McDowell does his best to foster a sinister atmosphere. While Christian viewers may find the ending affirming, nonbelievers may find it a bit anticlimactic. --Bret Fetzer
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Disappointing 
2009-12-03 - I bought this movie after reading reviews on several family-oriented sites. The acting is "okay" but the flow of the movie keeps getting chopped up with awkward transitions, and most disappointing, it has an overemotional yet anticlimactic end. The author probably did a better job of building up to the climax in the book, but I found that the way that the director chose to frame the sequences dealing with the "power of prayer" just detracted from the forward motion of the movie and gave it a pagan overtone. Its a movie I hoped to pass around in my community but one that will probably end up sitting on my shelf.
Okay but... 
2009-09-24 - Having read the book I was disappointed that the spiritual fullness expressed in the book did not carry over to the movie. Where there was a powerful presence of God in the book, the movie just translated ordinary hum-drum. Almost like it was edited out for some reason. Too bad it could have been a great witness. Not a bad movie just not great.
pretty satisfied 
2009-08-11 - Nothing really bad to report here. Good video, pretty good condition. Dvd came loose during shipping, but case was sealed fine.
Warning: Special Features includes "Bible Study Discussion Guide" 
2009-07-24 - I bought this movie locally, on impulse, after seeing that it starred Malcolm McDowell. I'd not have bought it if I'd checked the Amazon reviews first.
I was intensely disappointed. I had no clue from the blurb on the packaging that this was a propaganda movie for Christian mysticism.
I should have looked more closely at the Special Features, because if I had, I'd have realised that the legend "DISCOVER THE POWER", printed in big bold letters next to the barcode, was biblespeak for "Discover The Power Of Prayer," and been forewarned.
For anyone else who is an avid McDowell fan, but whose ability to suspend disbelief is limited to the realms of science fiction, surrealism, and reasonably inventive fantasy or horror, my advice is to just watch the quite innocuous first 43 minutes of this movie, to the point of the Civil War reenactment, and stop there. This would be while you are still able to think: "What is everyone talking about? This is quite a decent movie!"
Pretend that this was as far as they got in making the film, or that you watched the entire movie but had a fortunate bout of memory loss. Any excuse. Then make up some possible continuation and ending for the story out of your own imagination.
It doesn't matter how lacking your imagination may be, or how lame the story seems as you are constructing your version of it in your head, there is *absolutely *no *way your version could be as cringeworthy as that of the actual movie.
the list
2009-07-05 - i felt there was too much evil in it for my tastes. the acting, cinematography, and the story were good, but i was not prepared for the dark themes. i did not see those in the product info before i purchased it.
