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A group of oil workers being held hostage by a group of gangsters on a small oil rig are attacked by a freshwater bull shark.A group of oil workers being held hostage by a group of gangsters on a small oil rig are attacked by a freshwater bull shark.A group of oil workers being held hostage by a group of gangsters on a small oil rig are attacked by a freshwater bull shark.
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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")
"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")
I liked the setting and most of characters better in this film. I like Lou Diamond Phillips and found the spiritual buddy "Emery" pretty cool too. "Ice" was a little bit much but maybe that's what he would be like if he was forced to go out into the bayou. It was lower budget but just as suspensful. I don't watch a lot of commercial TV so I have missed all the Jaws reruns and I skip the shark attack weeks so maybe this seemed fresher to me.
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!!!!!
This movie was described by the actors, as being "unlike any other shark movie out there". I didn't find that to be true when watching this movie. The shark is killing people, the authorities at hand want the shark killed (for a handsome reward). The acting of is mediocre and somewhat very corney at times, screen cuts and slow motion sequences are cliche, and the ending (and pretty much the whole movie) is predictable. Lou Diamond was by far the best talent on the screen, and did his best to carry the film.
Overall, not a GREAT movie, but better than the later Jaws movies (and thats not hard to beat). :-)
Overall, not a GREAT movie, but better than the later Jaws movies (and thats not hard to beat). :-)
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.
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- TriviaThe sunken cars license plate is 'Louisiana 007 o 981' This plate is used in several shark films throughout the years. The first instance was when Hooper (Richard Dreyfuss) pulled it out a tiger shark in Les Dents de la mer (1975). The same license was pulled in Peur bleue (1999) by Carter Blake (Thomas Jane) from another tiger shark.
- GoofsThe shark portrayed in the film is supposedly a Bull Shark yet it is quite clearly a Great White and the tooth John throws into the water at the end belongs to neither species and has more in common with that of the Blue or Tiger Shark.
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[seeing Emery and his Cajun friends folk dancing]
Gene Bradley: God... It's like a scene from Deliverance.
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