garycbelleville
Look I love wrestling, been a fan now for close to 40 years now. Just because I love wrestling it doesn't mean I love all the wrestler's movies, but I do make a point of watching them all. Call me curious or respectful but I must see them all. I was anxious to see this one I had heard of it I forget how exactly but when I saw saw it was available I grabbed it. To be completely honest, the part that I liked the most was when it ended and all the credits had gone by. Sorry, I guess I just expected so much more, especially from Kurt Angle, Not as much from his acting but from his acceptance to be in this movie. I never expect Academey award winning performances from my favorit wrestlers but I do expect them to at least be fussy about what class of movie their going to appear in. As a wrestler he is always very believable and sometimes I tend to wonder if he really is acting or not. So, got to admit, that's good acting no! Too bad he didn't do the same in this movie though. Even though he was probably the best out of them all. Kevin Nash should study the undertaker's movements if he wants to play more living dead characters, way too smooth, I seen him do a better zombie imitation in a wrestling ring. Sad.....Apart from acting everything was terrible. The lighting, the stunts, special effects. For me, that is what really sunk this movie. If it was just a far as acting I could have rated this higher But no. My first 1 vote in history. Sorry. I just expected more.
tdeladeriere
Dreadful acting throughout weigh down this moderately enjoyable slasher/ghost DTV. Undead victims of a smalltown lynching come back from the dead to take their revenge on the hicks responsible for their murder.Good production values and regular slashings help salvage this very uninspired offering. This was meant to cash in on wrestling fans, and to be honest, I've seen much worse movies, but God, the acting. And the lead is not entirely responsible, everybody here does an absolutely terrible job of conveying the simplest emotions. A woman who just lost her child to the undead is particularly amateurish, and one paranormal researcher looks ready for Skinemax. One of the zombies is a dead ringer for 'Dog' Chapman. If you're not regarding, this can entertain you for 90 minutes.
TheLittleSongbird
I love movies of all genres, of any age, regardless of how good or bad they are. But River of Darkness doesn't deliver on any level. So far there have been some gems such as Rango, some mediocre efforts like Sanctum and some poorly conceived movies such as Battle:Los Angeles and Justin Bieber:Never Say Never. But River of Darkness is the only movie so far this year that I downright despise, it is that bad! River of Darkness is a good example of a movie that is all style, no substance. Saying that does nothing in the film's favour, because production-values wise this film is shoddy. The scenery and sets have an appropriately Gothic look to them, but they are completely ruined by the cinematography and editing which makes the movie look as though it has been edited on a bacon slicer and the lighting which is incredibly dull.River of Darkness fails epically in the story and writing as well. The story did have a nice arc to it on paper, but the execution was so derivative and poor one couldn't help thinking River of Darkness offers nothing new to the genre. Not one scene is believable in any way, the murders are all gore no heart no matter how marginally impressive the gore is. But that is nothing compared to the dialogue, I have heard some bad dialogue in many movies but River of Dakrness has some of the worst dialogue I have ever heard in my entire life. It is so cheesy and forced, and so clichéd and melodramatic I could not take it seriously at all.The film's direction is incompetent. In fact the direction is so sloppy that the film could have easily had no direction whatsoever. The characters I felt nothing for whatsoever, they are written terribly and you learn next to nothing about them. The pace is languid so much so nothing comes to life. None of the actors are genuine or brings heart to their characters either.Overall, a shoddy mess and to be avoided. 0/10 Bethany Cox
rev937
Will Logan, a sheriff protecting his town from the resurrected Jacobs brothers (Nash, Sid and Bill Laing), siblings who were lynched long ago and are back to seek revenge from beyond the grave. When unspeakable evil falls on a quiet river town, Sheriff Logan (Kurt Angle) is thrust into a chilling nightmare of death and mayhem. He is confronted with a series of horrific murders, each more viscous than the last, and soon learns of the community's seedy past and the evil that has risen from purgatory to exact revenge on the town. When Sheriff Logan discovers that the murders are committed by the spirits of old river squatters, the Jacobs Boys, the town explodes into an battlefield of blazing guns and zombies.
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