Review of The River Wild

When I first saw this movie, I rented it because my dad said he had saw it and he recommended it, in which I did and I was totally surprised and blown away by the performances in this movie. This movie had a decent plot about a family taking a vacation in the Rockies and happen to meet up with a friendly guy at first but when the family tries to run out on him during the trip because of a couple of conflicts, he takes matters into his own hands and takes them hostage, along for the ride. Wade (Kevin Bacon) as the bad guy scared me because you would never know what he would do next, even though he mostly focused on getting out and being cleared of trouble then killing a lot of people, like some guy on a rampage and his sidekick Terry (John C. Reilly) really was a ignoring sidekick, not much dialouge with his character but he was really a klutz in standing guard and how to control the family.

The family played by Gail (Meryl Streep) the mom, Tom (David Strathairn) the dad and Roarke (Joseph Mazzello) the son showed a very good performance in this movie and had the brightest concepts of escaping danger, things from sign language to swiss army knife and to smoke signals really kept the movie alive and it was spectacular.

I do recommend this movie to anyone who is a Kevin Bacon fan, I have been for a while and I love his movies, this movie is very suspenseful and will keep your heart beating to the end, It was worth renting a good adventurous thriller set in the Rockies, Just a very good 112 minutes of sitting on the edge of your seat.