The Covenant 5. When I saw the previews for this (which took me by surprise, as I only saw the first one a mere 2 weeks before it came out) I thought, Holy cow... they're trying to make this generation's Lost Boys. The commercial is cut to give exactly that kind of impression. It's too bad the commercial's editor didn't handle the cutting of the movie itself; it might have been much better than it was. Lost Boys, this ain't. This isn't my way of saying the movie was bad ...far from it really... but that it could have been so much more than it was. There's a lot of interesting, likable characters here, and a lot of fertile ground, story-wise. But somewhere along the production trail some halfwit had the epifany: "This is a movie directed at a teen audience, if we make it standard movie length, they're going to lose interest." The final product suffered for it. I don't know if it called for a premium channel, a TV mini-series, or just biting the bullet and making the fucking film 2+ hours long, but a lot more needed to unfold, and at a much better pace, than we ended up with. It felt like they were so rushed to get this in under time that they chopped it to the point of unfollowability. (Yes, I made that word up, but you understood it, didn't you.) There's some good stuff here, but I have to admit the parts I enjoyed most were the ones my head filled in which the samurai editors hacked out.  ¶ 12:26 AM