The River Thief (2016)

• Year: 2016
• Released: 14 Oct 2016
• Country: United States
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• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5664502/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_river_thief
• Metacritics: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/the-river-thief
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English
• MPA Rating: Not Rated
• Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime
• Runtime: 87 min
• Writer: N.D. Wilson
• Director: N.D. Wilson
• Cast: Joel Courtney, Paul Johansson, Bas Rutten
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	5.2/10
	0% – Critics
	66% – Audience

The River Thief Storyline

Diz (Joel Courtney) is a reckless teenage drifter living life on the run. Abandoned by his parents as a child, he looks out for himself and doesn’t accept handouts. He takes whatever he wants and runs. Jaded and determined to answer to no one, Diz lives a life marked by thievery and abandonment. Things change for Diz when he floats into a small town on the Snake River. There he is confronted by an unflappable old man named Marty and falls for Marty’s guarded granddaughter, Selah. When Diz robs a local drug-dealing crazy, he becomes the owner of a giant pile of cash and the target of two vicious killers. With more money than he knows what to do with, and criminals at his heels, Diz puts the people he’s learned to care about in danger, still trying to win Selah. But some things can’t be stolen or bought. The River Thief is a film about guilt, self-sacrifice, and accepting life as a gift.

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Ugh

Well… I don’t like faith-based films, not because of religion, but because they are always so awful. Not sure why.

From the get-go, the characters are painted like cartoon characters. The bad boy is terrible – far beyond reason. His behaviors, the things he says, and the things he does are nonsensical and not something the worst troubled kid would do. They exaggerate his negative attitude and his rude comments and behaviors don’t serve a purpose for the character.

The grandfather’s poorly dyed hair was very distracting. He is a handsome older fellow… without the horrid dye-job. His character was too sanctimonious.

The girl was OK.

The bad guys were ridiculous. Like cartoon characters.

The writing was absolutely ghastly – some of the worst writing I’ve seen in film. Possibly, those actors have skills that were invisible given the terrible material they were given.

The direction was absolutely terrible – but he was limited by the awful writing. However, given that the director wrote the thing, I give him a big “F” on the entire project. None of the characters were believable except the grandmother, who was only a gravestone, and the granddaughter, who was a fair rendition of a “good girl” at her age.

Some of the religious themes came of a bit ridiculous for me – but I prefer logic.

Overall, I would like my time back. I was in bed with a bad cold. Should have chosen something better for that time while I was curled up in bed with the cat.

For me, this film is a big thumbs down. If I were a fundamentalist Christian, I probably would love it because it’s a Christian film. But as a liberal Christian, I judge it on its actual cinematic merits – it’s a big fail.

A bit slow, but, a good family movie

This movie is advertised as a Christian movie, but, other than some random Bible verses quoted a few times by one of the older gentlemen in the movie, there wasn’t much to identify it as such.

The cinematography was outstanding and the locations were well chosen. Especially during the opening sequences of the movie.

There were two issues where I think the movie could have been improved. First, there were a few scene continuity issues, where two adjoining scenes didn’t work well with each other, this creates a choppy dialog. Second, some of the actors were a bit wooden during some scenes and spot on during others.

I felt that some scenes were “forced” and they didn’t flow naturally, this was distracting from the story line for me.

This movie had a really good story and a better director and better editing could have polished it up a little better.

Finally, this was a lot better than most Christian genre movies that I have watched, though this did have some profanity and violence that might not be appropriate for younger audiences.

A film’s beauty self-destructs

Was so good/funny until 2/3rds of the way through. Thefts become goods; physical beauty becomes beauty of the mind. Then all of a sudden– totally out of the previous script– these preposterous religious ideas jumped in–like all of a sudden Liberty Univ from Virginia (could Orwell have come up with a better name?) started writing the script & footage. Stupid–ignorance flooded the screen– totally at odds with the first 3/4’s of the film. What an insult to all the good actors. It was like some psycho wanted to rope you in, and then preach some bible- school idiocy for the last 20 min of the film. A total and unfortunate waste of talent–and the viewers’ time.