Comwayon A Disappointing Continuation

TrueHello Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Lollivan It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Frances Chung Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

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!

Ed-Shullivan Ray Liotta has starred in many a fine picture(s), but I did not think this was one of his better films. His acting was certainly up to par but the movie was thin on content. Ray Liotta plays Detective Jack Verdon, a married man with a very active sex life with many, many partners before he got married several years ago. Somehow, someone has been murdering the women Jack has previously slept with, and as any good serial killer will tell you, the killer has to have a modus operandi. So Jack is first accused of being the possible serial killer as he cannot account how anyone else would know the women he has previously taken on as one time lovers, so his badge and gun are temporarily confiscated. As more murders of Jacks former lovers are turning up, Jack is eventually cleared to go back on duty. Supporting cast members include Ving Rhames as Jack's Captain, and Christian Slater as a pesky FBI agent. I enjoy a good serial killer movie but this film left me with little to be too intrigued about. A THRILLER it was not. Yes, it is worth a watch for a late night movie when you cannot sleep but it is not an "edge on your seat THRILLER", nor does it have a unique or surprise ending. Somewhat disappointing overall.I rated it a 4 out of 10. Sorry Ray, but maybe your next suspense film will result in a better IMDb score.

cmoyton ..and if you haven't seen Resurrection please do. It rips off Seven almost scene for scene and also casts Leland Orser in a major role. Is that homage or irony. Where Resurrection dovetails into The River Murders is in the religious theme to the killings while name checking Seven on the DVD cover. And that ladies and gents is as good as it gets.Yet again i lament the fact that IMDb does not have a no stars option because this film has no redeeming features whatsoever bar a comedic hamming it up big time performance from a wise cracking Christian Slater as an FBI agent. Every cliché in the book is flogged to death. Credability is non existent. The rubber snaps (no pun intended) when Liottas ex bed notch cop friend takes a lift from the shifty looking serial killer because she could not be bothered furthering her feeble attempt to hail a taxi. Even when an opportunity is presented to spin something else the script then goes out of its way to reinforce the fact that Liottas character was a heterosexual stud.Liotta should be ashamed for taking the pay cheque as his performance is so lame it is at times unintentionally funny. Watch him and his jelly belly jogging - hope they had paramedics ready. As for the "actress" who played his wife - jeepers enough said. I only watched to the ahem -climax- to see what the motive for the killer was after making several wide of the mark guesses. Now i'm feeling double dumbness by also actually paying to rent this trash and all. But then i excuse myself by checking the real age of the actor who played the killer on IMDb - he is in his 40's and looks every day of it. They pass him off as being 30 year old in the movie which is why i would never fathom him as the son of the Liotta character who is portrayed as 48 year old in the movie.

Kirsten Holmes When the cover says 'not since Seven has a deadly sin been this terrifying,' what I expect is Seven, only much worse, because no respectable movie director attempts to make a movie with any similarity whatsoever to such a legend of a movie unless he's a really shocking director or a really cocky brilliant one paying respect, and the latter are rare. It's got the bible themed killings, except without the gore or the fear or the creativity or originality. And then, lo and behold, at the end the wife is taken captive by the killer, who calls for the husband-cop and Oh My God I never expected it...the cop kills the killer. Seven it is not. But it tries really, really hard to copy it exactly down to the 'shocking' final twist. I have never rolled my eyes as often in a movie as I did in this one. The most entertaining thing about Ray Liotta in this film is the enormity of his beer gut, which proceeds him everywhere he goes.The River Murders is the most predictable movie I've ever seen, with the worst script, cast, and directing in the history of my film watching career. The plot holes are so large you could fall through them from a mile high. And in the background, Christian Slater grabs desperate hold of the only role he could manage to land in what? The last decade? Oh well, he tries his best. There's your regular typecast cop actors as virtual extras. I can't believe they had the nerve to include a 'making of' featurette on the DVD. Needless to say, I didn't watch that just like I shouldn't have watched this film.