The River Wild is another of those exciting thrillers, this time about a fun family vacation that completely turns around to give us what we wanted.
Filmed entirely in Montana and Oregon, the film follows a crumbling family. The wife, a former river rafting guide, decides to form a family rafting vacation trip to celebrate her son’s birthday and to help her shaky marriage.
They meet two mysterious guys who look fun loving, but end up being bank robbers who hold the family hostage at gunpoint. Telling the woman that they’ll kill the husband and kid, they force her to use her rafting skills to get them to where they need to go. The plot is actually convincing, and the movie is very entertaining, and beautifully filmed with some pretty cool rafting sequences and neat looking cinematography. It’s also acted well enough.
Unfortunately, the film is very far from flawless. There are many unrealistic and near impossible scenes that all works out perfect for the family to defeat the bad guys and save themselves.
Parts of the plot are also just too unconvincing enough for me, and this made the movie not so realistic. But it’s a movie, and I suppose that there isn’t anything realistic in a movie these days.
Grade: B-
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