Rio Sangrento

It's a shame that us American seem to be so totally incapable of making low budget horror movies when those all around us - The Japanese and the Brits are miles ahead. The whole film is just so throw away and the special effects are terrible. This is a real old fashioned boring mess...

Like the previous comment, they have fished this Dry. In fact this movie didn't stray too much from the original with scenes and the dialogue. If anyone stole this movie it was Coolio! Because I didn't expect that much from him anyways. Lou Diamond Phillips and Kristy (I Love You) Swanson should seriously consider training for another career because if this is what they are being offered they need to really rethink things. Back to the movie - Jaws in fresh water with a Bull Shark. Bad Guys make things difficult for Good Guys. Greedy Oil Company Guy vs Greedy Criminal Guys - innocents in the way. Throw in Bad Shark and a "Love Reconsilliation Story". That should be it. Avoid This Movie at all Costs!!!!!

My partner and i enjoy our regular DVD night's as the video shop we use has the biggest archive of hard to find movie's in Tauranga,but as my missus is usually in a hurry,she just grab's random movie's cause the cover look's good without reading the blurb on the back of the cover,hence we end up viewing the odd abomination such as this film.Some of my mate's came round that fateful night and viewed this jaw's invading the waterway's of a small hick town/criminal's searching for submerged loot sub plot, we could not help but giggle,make snide remark's and pick hole's in the sub porn wooden acting and the 'menacing' bull shark.Lot's of the ridicule was directed at coolio, washed up rapper/actor who seem's to think he's in a L.A gangsta flick and not in a small backwater community being terrorized by a vengeful, rubbery shark.Lou diamond phillip's career has taken a turn for the worst over the year's,yet he was in some fairly good movie's like La bamba,Young guns and The first power(i liked it anyway).Well worth a look to poke fun at but seriously do not see this thinking your gonna get a top notch thriller.

Then again, I think that just about anything Lou Diamond Phillips does is good. THAT is a true fan, in my opinion. The shark looked very real...even moreso than the one in the "Jaws" movies. Granted, there was a substantial amount of blood and gore, but it was a horror movie so that's to be expected. There still wasn't as much of that in "Red Water" as there was in "Jaws" (any of them). OK, that's all of my "review"...Now I have to ramble to make up the 10 line minimum...lol! As I said before, NOTHING Mr. Phillips does (in my opinion) is bad or something I wouldn't want to watch again, so maybe I'm not really the right person to review any of his movies...lol!

In Louisiana, the fisherman John Sanders (Lou Diamond Phillips) is near to lose his boat to the bank when his ex-wife Kelli Raymond (Kristy Swanson) that works in environment research and the arrogant son of her boss Gene Bradley (Gideon Emery) offer an amount for him to help their company in a drilling operation in the river. Meanwhile a freshwater shark is attacking people in the area. When they arrive in the site, they see an anchored boat and they believe that belong to their competitors from the Global Oil Company. However they are dangerous criminals that are seeking a large amount of stolen money that is hidden in the bottom of the river. Gene confronts the mobsters and the group is threatened by the gangsters.

"Red Water" is a forgettable adventure with the usual flaws and clichés of B-movies of the genre. Kristy Swanson is very sexy and beautiful and I did not recognize her. The scene of a hiking group near a bridge is totally out of the context and ridiculous. My vote is four.

Title (Brazil): "Rio Sangrento" ("Bloody River")