Lucybespro It is a performances centric movie

Forumrxes Yo, there's no way for me to review this film without saying, take your *insert ethnicity + "ass" here* to see this film,like now. You have to see it in order to know what you're really messing with.

AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Fatma Suarez The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Leofwine_draca THE RIVER MURDERS is a B-movie serial killer thriller that manages to waste the talents of a fine cast in a so-so story. A mysterious killer is butchering young and beautiful women and a veteran detective finds himself involved with a personal connection to the victims. Lead actor Ray Liotta is on autopilot here, playing a rather sleazy character in a film full of them. The plot hinges on the big 'whodunit?' twist which is anything but surprising or interesting, while the crimes have an unpleasant sexual aspect that sees this veering into misogynistic territory on occasion. Christian Slater and Ving Rhames are also wasted in nothing roles, making this a chore to sit through.

kapelusznik18 ***SPOILERS*** Ray Liotta is Spokane homicide detective Jack Verdon who's past as a one night stand for the most part ladies man seemed to have caught with him. That in a number of women, young & old, found brutally murdered with their bodies desecrated that he had affairs with him in the past. The fact that Verdon had countless affairs-in the hundreds-puts almost every woman single or married and divorced in danger of being the serial killers next victim.Despite now being "happly" married to local bartender & short order cook Ana, Gisele Fraga, didn't seem to stop Jack from cheating behind her back that caused a sexually frustrated Ana, whom he was ignoring, to do some cheating on her own. With Jack as the #1 suspect and the FBI on the case in the person on Agent Vukovick, Christian Slater,Jack has to find the mysterious serial killer before he himself ends up convicted of his crimes. With the killer targeting Ana as his next victim it was only the miracle of life, her being pregnant, that saved her. Something that all his other victims who ended up for the most part getting abortions, after he knocked them up, didn't have.****SPOILERS*** Hard to figure out just what the movie is trying to tell it's audience in that we see the religious fanatical and bible thumping killer John Lee,Michael Rodrick,in not such a bad light even though he murdered some dozen women, including Jack's mom, in his crime spree against, in his mind, sinners. In fact John actually wanted to pay for his crimes in not making any attempt of saving his life after Jack finally cornered him by the river where he dumped most of his victims. Filmed during the rainy season in Spokane Washington that made the movie even far more depressing that it already was. As for John's motives we were in for a far a big surprise at the very end when he found out, before Jack shot him, who this John Lee really was!

NateWatchesCoolMovies The River Murders is a fairly entertaining thriller vehicle for Ray Liotta that tries hard to be in the same grisly territory as stuff like Sev7n, and winds up looking pretty silly in its efforts. It takes place on a rural community in the Midwest, where a serial killer is leaving bodies for authorities to find. Detective Jack Verdon (Liotta) does some digging and finds that that himself and the killer may have met before in the past, making it personal. This causes unrest for both the department and Verdon's mental state, prompting the arrival of an overzealous Federal agent (Christian Slater, annoying as hell here), and the concern of his captain (Ving Rhames). It's fun watching Liotta spin out of control, and the film climaxes with reasonable intensity, but showcases nothing unique or noteworthy. Raymond J. Barry has a nice bit as Liotta's father too.

Robert J. Maxwell It's a curious film about a murderer whose victims are all women than detective Ray Liotta has slept with -- in his entire life, beginning with number one. And how does the killer know who these women are, since some of these are one-night stands from twenty or more years ago? Okay. Hold on to your hate please. The killer identifies them by forcing one women to reveal another that Liotta has slept with. But how can a woman tell that a man has slept with someone besides herself? "A woman can tell, Jack," says Gisela Fraga, Jack's wife for the past eight years.And Jack's list of women, of casual affairs, is a long one -- more than a hundred, he says. I suppose that might sound impressive until you hear about my conquests. I counted them up once. I have made love to one thousand, two hundred, and forty six partners. And a half. And that's not counting myself and inanimate objects.I'm sorry. I can't take this film too seriously. There are more variations on the serial killer theme than there are on Liotta's list of sex partners. And if they started off in a state of simplicity -- one raving maniac slaughtering at random -- they were forced in the course of their pattern of florescence to become more complicated. The killers began leaving increasingly anfractuous clues for the police. The location of the separate murders formed a pentagon on a map. Or he was killing individuals who exemplified the seven deadly sins. Or the murders were somehow linked to the configuration of stars in the Pleides.In this case, I won't even bother trying to explain it because I don't understand it. I don't understand why Liotta's mother was murdered. I don't understand the significance of the river, which figures prominently in the story. I don't get why the killer goes for Jack's wife. I don't know why the dead body of Jack's wife in the trunk of the car doesn't resemble Jack's wife. I don't understand the last sixty seconds or so, in which we see Jack and his wife at home, playing with their newborn baby.But I can't trash the movie because some of it is not bad at all. Nobody ever thinks of Spokane as an ideal filming location. If you're going to shoot in the rain, why not go all the way and place it in Vancouver, BC? It's cheaper. Yet it makes decent use of the city's landmarks, like the Upper Spokane River Falls.And the performances aren't bad, considering that the dialog sometimes sounds carelessly written. The word "need" is salient, usually appearing in the form, "I need you to --." "I'm sorry" pops up at such regular intervals that it forms a kind of ostinato.Only one performance is poor. Portraying Liotta as a young man is Alex Donnolo, who might have been dragged from a high school play in Keokuk, Iowa. I hope he didn't quit his day job. But as Liotta's nemesis, the serial killer himself, Michael Rodrick is just fine, erstwhile priest turned revenge fanatic. He's pleasant, handsome, harmless. Also he's from Jersey City.In terms of dramatic style Ray Liotta has not changed one iota from what he was in "Goodfellas." He always sounds a little whiny, as if pleading for understanding. It adds a nice touch to his maniac policeman in "Unlawful Entry." And Gisela Braga is outstanding as Liotta's wife. She's only just short of the threshold for Hollywood beautiful. She has endearing big ears. But her delivery is truly winning. And everyone else in the cast, with the exception of Jack Junior, is at least professionally competent. It's always a pleasure to see people at work doing things they do well.