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River Wild

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Joey (Leighton Meester) fears there could be trouble ahead after her brother Gray (Taran Killam) invites Trevor (Adam Brody), a childhood friend with a troubled past, on their whitewater rafting adventure with two tourists. Once they become stranded in raging rapids, the thrill-seeking trip quickly turns from exciting to utterly terrifying as the rafters are trapped in a desperate fight for their lives, all while someone seems intent on sabotage to ensure shocking secrets stay buried. To survive the wild river, Joey will have to face her fears, and everyone will have to develop killer instincts before they’re torn apart by deception aboard the raft, or by deadly waters wreaking havoc all around them.
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Randy Myers San Jose Mercury News 08/02/2023
3/4
A taut exercise with a few teeth-gnashing rafting sequences. Go to Full Review
Megan Fisher Loud and Clear Reviews Jan 11
3/5
Buoyed up by Meester’s strong performance and some truly gnarly bits of violence, River Wild is an effective little potboiler, appropriate for a Saturday afternoon. Go to Full Review
Tina Kakadelis Beyond the Cinerama Dome 08/20/2023
It’s not every day that Seth Cohen and Blair Waldorf fight for their lives on a whitewater rafting journey, but if River Wild proves anything, it’s that this should be an everyday occurrence. Go to Full Review
Radhamely De Leon Decider 08/18/2023
But the script has its pitfalls that are typical for low-budget thrillers like this. There are multiple lines of dialogue that feel so corny and out of character, it may even remove you from the action. Go to Full Review
JK Sooja Common Sense Media 08/17/2023
2/5
The best part of this thriller is its brevity, how fast it gets going, and how quickly it reaches its conclusion. Go to Full Review
Keith Garlington Keith & the Movies 08/16/2023
3.5/5
This new reimagining makes several significant changes to the characters and their stories while maintaining the beautiful yet treacherous setting that plays such an integral part in the film’s success. Go to Full Review
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Steve C Jun 10 Horrible movie nothing like the original. By the way NO WHITE WAYER RAFTING WAS CONDUCTED DURING THIS MOVIE See more Roger L May 26 If I could give it ZERO STARS I WOULD!!!! I thought the original was bad from a whitewater standpoint, but this one was infinitely worse. Did they even bother to frame their shots or look at the background. Roads are seen in multiple places. Kayak skirts magically appear in the middle of rapids. Drops happen out of sequence. But the story was even more unbelievable. And the acting was…. Well at least there were the BAD whitewater scenes. See more Deb L Jan 9 This is a ridiculous story. See more Carson H 11/30/2024 Someone owes me 2 hours of my life back. Before we sat down to watch this movie, I guessed that it was going to be a bunch of people making horrible decisions. It was that compounded. This movie is terrible. Not only is the writing bad, there's just lacksadaisical shortfalls in the main parts of the scene of the most important scenes. The majority of the movie is centered around terrible or no decisions. We had to sit down and watch this movie in two parts and for each part I was standing and yelling. It's probably the worst movie I've seen all year. If I could give it zero Stars I would. The acting was a two at best but the movie itself was atrocious. That may be being generous. We should have watched The Minions. Mind you we have no children. If there's one thing I could leave you with, itis "don't watch this movie". See more Jay W 11/21/2024 I will start off with the positives. For a "remake" the film does try to do its own thing, despite having a similar setting the characters and motivation are different. The camera work for most of the shots is also pretty good. Now that the positives are out of the way, let's get into it. This movie feels like a studio realized that the rights they had to film was about to expire and they wanted to squeeze out something from it to make some money. So, they dusted off an old script that happened to take place on a river raft, kept the budget as low as possible and slap the recognizable title on it. The movie takes its sweet time getting started. The main conflict of the story doesn't show signs of starting until about the 30-minute mark. For an hour and a half movie, that's 1/3 of the movie where nothing is happening but exposition. These characters are the very example of what people talk about for stupid characters in a horror film. They're the kind of characters that make idiotic decisions that no one in real life would make, but they do it so the movie can happen. It makes you want to just pick up the screen and shake the characters, telling them "No, don't do that!" I guess one other benefit is that the movie is short. I will take its lead and keep this review short as well. See more Will B 11/02/2024 This movie has awful writing. Full of cliches and ultimately baffling decisions made by the characters multiple times. Had me yelling in frustration. Absolutely terrible. No clue how this made it through production. I want my time back. Netflix should reimburse me for having to see this genuinely terrible movie. See more Read all reviews
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Synopsis Joey (Leighton Meester) fears there could be trouble ahead after her brother Gray (Taran Killam) invites Trevor (Adam Brody), a childhood friend with a troubled past, on their whitewater rafting adventure with two tourists. Once they become stranded in raging rapids, the thrill-seeking trip quickly turns from exciting to utterly terrifying as the rafters are trapped in a desperate fight for their lives, all while someone seems intent on sabotage to ensure shocking secrets stay buried. To survive the wild river, Joey will have to face her fears, and everyone will have to develop killer instincts before they’re torn apart by deception aboard the raft, or by deadly waters wreaking havoc all around them.
Director
Ben Ketai
Producer
Ogden Gavanski, Anne-Marie Roberge, Daniel Kresmery
Screenwriter
Ben Ketai, Mike Le
Distributor
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Production Co
Universal 1440 Entertainment, Hero Squared
Rating
PG-13 (Strong Language|Some Bloody Images|Brief Suggestive Material|Violence)
Genre
Mystery & Thriller, Adventure
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Aug 1, 2023
Runtime
1h 31m
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