Friday, February 28, 2014

River of Darkness (2011)

A sheriff looks into a string of ritualistic murders and finds out that there are more to the murders then meets the eye. Delving deeper into the case leads him to a deep, dark secret about the town he's protecting. There's not much to say about this movie. It was made maybe, but I guess that's as far as it goes. It's a run of the mill movie. The director, Bruce Koehler seems to think wrestler Kurt Angle is leading man material, but it just ain't there. He gives nothing to the performance but a body to fill a costume. Add some more wrestlers (Kevin Nash, Sid Vicious, Ray Lloyd)does nothing more then gives this movie eyeballs from a ready made audience. At least Nash and Sid knew how just to be bodies. I think they did better than Angle. Other then that, There's nothing memorable about it. The story is retread, the characters are forgettable and the development is non existent.

 There is one little nag about the movie I had. They use a subplot to bookend the movie. It is so shoehorned into the movie, you'd think Fred Olen Ray took over production. It just take off on a different tangent. It's like watching The Fog and then Scooby Doo and the Mystery Gang showed up on set to solve the case. It throws off the story and the way it ties in is just seriously retarded.

 Should you go out of your way to watch this movie? Nah. Not really. But it's alright as a time waster on a sick day or a Sunday if you happen to trip on it while browsing.

 You can find the movie streaming on Amazon and Amazon Prime.

(BTW, Angle is never tooled up like the poster is promising.)


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