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Summary: The River Wild
Review: I have enjoyed this movie since the release. I find the music and the scenery just wonderful. The action is great and without all of the flash of the movies today. It is a wonderful movie and I would recommend it for anyone who likes to watch movies.Kevin and Meryl are wonderful together.......I love this movie!!
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Summary: I LOVE IT
Review: I LIKE IT VERRY MUCH I LIKE THE WAY JOSEPH MAZZELLO LOOKS IN THE MOVIE.ANYWAY THE MOVIE IS DA BOMB
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Summary: Rollin', Rollin' Rollin' down the river...
Review: I like that Tina Turner song. Anyway...
This is a great movie. It's one of the few movies that I've seen more than once in the theater. Meryl is great and I have to say, Kevin Bacon is a true creep in this movie. The action is realistic and the cinematography is wonderful.
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Summary: Delicious for its gender content
Review: I liked this movie because it explores:
1) that women can by physically and psychologically strong
2) that women can face challenges such as whether to possibly mistakenly kill a threatening person
3) that men can be strong around women who are strong
4) that the human spirit is resilient and can overcome extreme challenges Plus the nature is great, the acting is excellent and the journey is interesting.
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Summary: great!
Review: I never heard of this movie until I saw it on t.v. I was a cool movie it has action, adventure, family moments.I bought it not long ago.if you like action, adventure buy it!
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Summary: Widescreen Fun
Review: I picked this movie up based on the DTS soundtrack, which I enjoyed. But, what was even better was the realism of the rafting. I thought I was there, through my home theater - 50 inch Panny LCD and 6.1 Yamaha 1400. Kevin Bacon, plays a great role and keeps you guessing....
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Summary: great!
Review: i thought this movie would be just about a family white water rafting,but when i saw it i was wrong!i wanted to see it a million more times.this one is worth renting
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Summary: Oh boy
Review: Kevin Bacon can so beautifully play a sadist, a charming and vicious creep, a bad guy that it's almost like he's not acting. And Meryle Streep, trying her hand here in an action film, NEVER seems to be acting - she's always stellar, completely immersed in her character. In The River Wild, Streep plays a suburban mom and former white-water rafting guide who is taking her family on a raft trip for summer vacation. She's a bit on the outs with her husband, who is, at the last minute, too busy to go along - so she and her son go it alone - and quickly run afoul of some killers on the lam. Bacon and a buddy, of course. They coerce Streep to take them down a terrifyingly dangerous stretch of river rapids to escape from the pursuing cops.
Marvelous. And Streep did all the river scenes without the use of a stunt double - which, if you've ever been white-water rafting on a Class 4 or 5 river, is utterly amazing.
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Summary: COMPLETELY PREDICTABLE AND OFTEN ILLOGICAL.
Review: 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.
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Summary: Good action, but could have been much better
Review: Meryl Streep does an action heroine turn as Gail, a river guide in an unhappy marriage to David Sraithairn. For a change of pace, they hit the waters, where the family is forced to aid two runaway criminals (Kevin Bacon and John C. Reilly). This is a very different role for Streep, and she manages to make it fit and seems very believable. Bacon is somewhat threatening, and the river action scenes are all very good. BUT, this movie gets bogged down by the hokey plot contrivances (their dog who happens to magically appear at precise moments, Ranger Johnny (Benjamin Bratt, before Law & Order) and other plot holes. Good, but could have been a much better story.
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