River Wild (2023) | Full Movie | Movies Anywhere

However, the final scene is on point and the emotional pull of the story is enough to make me forgive River its faults, but by a very narrow margin. 3 Stars

For a remake of a decent through not entirely beloved nineties cable hit, you could do much worse.

It has a good mix of action, suspense and nature scenes.

No, it’s not a font of originality or endless blast of excitement. But “River Wild” does what its inspiration did and manages to move us as much as the Streep and Bacon Curtis Hanson film of 1994 did, and does it in a much shorter thriller.

Less a remake of the starry 1994 film than a simpler, bare-bones take on the premise of malevolence during a white-water rafting trip, “River Wild” is an efficiently-made but flimsy potboiler about a berserk killer that’s notable only for its location.