The River Wild
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Movie Reviews of The River Wild
Movie Review: Good! Good! Good!
Summary: 4 Stars
I saw this movie, and was in suspense the whole time! I don't think so many people should have been shot... But owell.Movie Review: Entertaining action yarn
Summary: 3 Stars
Entertaining, yet stretching the boundaries of credibility, yarn puts Meryl Streep into G.I Jane action mode and places her character on a river rafting expedition with her emotionally distant husband and loving child. Trying to utilize the river as a basis for brining the family closer together again, that is all rapidly sped up when two escaped convicts join the raft as their means of escape. Meryl is convincingly good as usual and Kevin Bacon, as one of the escaped thugs, gives an alarmingly icy performance. The scenery is picture perfect postcard material and the direction under the oft under used Curtis Hanson is subtle and raw in all the right places.Movie Review: theater vs. home format
Summary: 3 Stars
This is an awesome movie. The only problem I have with it, as many of you have found with other movies, is that the sound design is made for theaters and not for home viewing-that is that the quiet parts are too quiet, and the loud parts are too loud. Am I ordering the wrong format? Nevertheless, I recommend this movie with both thumbs up for a family viewing!Movie Review: A Water-Logged Yuppie Action Flick
Summary: 2 Stars
If you are looking for a non-stop action flick with top notch suspense, vile villains and heroic leads....keep looking. "The River Wild" packs about the same punch as a Lifetime Network movie, but with an A-List cast.
I normally love Meryl Streep in just about anything, and she does a fine job here, but the material is just so tepid there really isn't anything to work with. David Straithairn looking as though he just stepped out of a power-lunch with the CEO also does a decent job as the city-boy lost in the wild, but again outside of being given the "too-busy-to-enjoy-my-family" schtick, they don't really give him anything to do here. His decent into "survivalist" mode consists of his clothes getting wet and his hair getting messy. The best role in the film is reserved for Kevin Bacon as the heel. Playing the smarmy, backwoodsy killer who takes Streep and family hostage, Bacon does a great job in the film, and is the only reason I recommend giving this movie a spin in the DVD player. But surrounding him with a whiny kid, a dorky co-bad-guy, inept river police etc. and any edge of danger is sucked right out of the character.
The ham-handed direction even sucks the beauty out of the landscape, and the menace out of the rapids. The musical score gets pumped up to ten and...blah. There is nothing surprising or inventive with the film. Take the dullest parts of "Deliverance", and expand them for an hour and half, and you have "The River Wild".
Movie Review: COMPLETELY PREDICTABLE AND OFTEN ILLOGICAL.
Summary: 2 Stars
Let me make this clear right from the start. The only thing that saves this film from getting just one star is the wonderful acting of Meryl Streep. She does a fantastic job of believably playing a gritty former river guide and a loving mom. The rest of this movie doesn't fare nearly as well."The River Wild" is about a mother, father, son and dog who go on an adventure whitewater rafting down a river. They encounter some shady characters who are rafting down the same river. I typically break down the plot of the movie in my reviews but it is rather pointless here. Everything is completely obvious from a mile away and I do mean EVERYTHING. There are also several completely ridiculous parts of this film. For one, there is a portion of the movie where the father has to follow along the river on foot through treacherous terrain. At the same time, his river guide wife is rolling down the river in a raft. Guess who makes it downstream faster? That's right...the father. Give me a break! There are too many more moronic things like this for me to waste my time going over them. In short, if you fancy whitewater rafting and Meryl Streep then check this one out. If you like movies with actual suspense and action then watch something else.