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Riverworld

Tahmoh Penikett (Actor), Laura Vandervoort (Actor), Stuart Gillard (Director) Rated:

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IMDb4.9/10.0

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Matt, an American journalist, and his fiancée Jessie are killed in an explosion, but reawaken in a very unusual afterlife—a mysterious planet with an endless river terrain. Everyone who has ever lived on Earth has been resurrected simultaneously in this strange new world. Determined to find Jessie, Matt joins forces with an intrepid crew including a 13th century female warrior and Riverboat captain Mark Twain. Embarking upriver, their adventure begins, all the while tracked by the watchful eye of a mysterious alien force.

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Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ s_medNotRated Unrated (Not Rated)
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches; 3.2 Ounces
Item model number ‏ : ‎ MFR883476013763#VG
Director ‏ : ‎ Stuart Gillard
Media Format ‏ : ‎ Multiple Formats, AC-3, Color, Dolby, NTSC, Widescreen
Run time ‏ : ‎ 2 hours and 58 minutes
Release date ‏ : ‎ June 22, 2010
Actors ‏ : ‎ Tahmoh Penikett, Laura Vandervoort, Mark Deklin, Peter Wingfield, Jeananne Goossen
Language ‏ : ‎ Unqualified
Studio ‏ : ‎ Rhi Entertainment
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0039PGH9G
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

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clm

Future cult classic

Reviewed in the United States on July 17, 2019

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Over the years the Scifi cable channel has done a few of these major theater quality productions. In 2000 their four hour extravagant production of "Dune" became in my opinion the best video version ever made of this classic. If you can find the original DVD, grab it for your collection. As for Riverworld, it was made in Canada and didn't rise quite to that level, but from the perspective of ten years ago it holds up very well and is immensely enjoyable to watch. Highly recommended.

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Charles Boatwright

A movie about bored beings

Reviewed in the United States on January 17, 2021

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Simple promise keep bring people back to life get them motivated on one side or the other playing them like chess pieces. End the game and start over. It can’t take repeated viewing because the shallowness of character and motivation really stick out

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Matthew Jenkins

They never finished it

Reviewed in the United States on March 2, 2019

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Buy the book it will explain more and it has an ending. I spend almost $20 dollars on an unfinished movie I already saw on Syfy

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PYH

The storyline is intriguing and the actors are really good and they make the characters believable

Reviewed in the United States on June 5, 2015

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I watched this movie on TV and wanted to have it in BD. The storyline is intriguing and the actors are really good and they make the characters believable. There is an older version of the same movie, but this one is way better than the original movie for the simple reason that this new version has at least an end in the story. Of course, it leaves few loose ends that was intentionally left hanging there due to the tv series that should follow.

I am not sure if the tv series was actually made, it seems it is out there on the internet.

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musicfan28if

With friends like these...

Reviewed in the United States on March 19, 2020

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Mark Twain has a pretty good setup in the afterlife, operating a riverboat steamship along with an attractive consort. Then along come these new friends and he’s cursing God by the end of it.

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Lewis

The Sci-Fi channel simply doesn't make series like this, anymore

Reviewed in the United States on June 16, 2017

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My wife has been looking for this film for a while. When I found it, I grabbed it for her. The Sci-Fi channel simply doesn't make series like this, anymore.

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CilantronTop Contributor: DC Comics

Enjoyable if your expectations are low

Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2011

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I'll shift my comparison of the books to this mini-series to the comments section, to save space.

Overall, I thought it was a fun, entertaining 3 hours. I recommend splitting this in half while watching it, though. I only vaguely remember SciFi's earlier attempt at this story, but this new version is definitely closer to the original, for both good and bad.

This miniseries was intended to be the pilot of a series, so as such, I can forgive its incompleteness. Anything left unexplained could be covered in future episodes. However, considering the possibility that this won't be turned into a series, they really should have explained Burton's motivations more fully. There are a few problems with the plot, for instance: Clemens steals the boat from Pizarro. He heads upstream towards the source of the river. An unknown amount of time later, he meets Pizarro. This could work if Pizarro died, came back to life upstream, and established a new kingdom, I guess, but do you buy that explanation? Rewiring everyone's heads to speak English is, well, okay, it's cheesy, but what do you want them to do?

Reagarding the actors/characters: The hero is fine, I suppose, and is appealing to the ladies. Laura Vandervoort and the actresses playing the Japanese and Italian women are attractive, so I'll have to exempt myself from judging their acting skills. I don't have a problem with the Caretaker aliens. The actor playing Clemens/Twain is more of a charicature than a character. The actor playing Burton gets a pass here, because most people don't have an idea of how Richard Burton (the 19th century British explorer, not the 20th century actor) is supposed to act. I'm guessing the writers were told from on high "you must have a black character and a gay character" so they deliberately made these their weakest characters to express their resentment.

Personally, I'd rather see them start all over again rather than try to turn this into a series. X-files had its "monster of the week" format, Smallville had a "meteor freak of the week," would Riverworld have its "famous historical person(s) of the week?" How long would that be interesting? Where were they planning on going with this series? If they had the folks behind Battlestar Galactica or Lost do this instead, the quality of the plot and acting would improve drastically, but we'd get yet another series in which there are no pure heroes or villians (which could work) and which ends with a lot of loose ends and a finale that ticks off a lot of people (which would suck). Maybe if they stuck even closer to the books... nah, that'll never happen.

2.5 stars rounded up to 3 because I'm feeling generous.

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TigerSister

Circular plot

Reviewed in the United States on December 19, 2013

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I really hope that there is a sequel because if this is it I really regret the money I spent on it... After 3 hours I still don't know what the aliens want from the humans or why there even is fighting or how the characters picked their sides, why some don't have bands... It's confusing and the only reason I watched the whole thing was because I had hope for some kind of resolution... and I was left with none. The idea of the story is pretty interesting but the story telling is bad.

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R. J. LeClerc

A failed pilot in an attempt to create a TV show based on the Riverworld series.

Reviewed in Canada on June 2, 2021

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This strayed so far from the books that it was laughable. Unfortunately for me a Canadian, I found after some research that this was shot in British Columbia and consisted mainly of Canadian actors. Poor souls!

John R. Moore

A separate movie but sort of a continuing story.

Reviewed in Canada on February 26, 2013

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This is not the same movie with Brad Johnson! This is a new movie with other fine actors telling a different but continuing story. I found this movie to be just as good and I highly recommend it too. When I see any others like this, I will definitely buy them. The author of the books wrote several with the same name. The plot concept I enjoyed in both DVD's and if you get them, I hope you will too.

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Benoit Morin

Very different type of movie that would be appreciated by ...

Reviewed in Canada on November 27, 2014

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Very different type of movie that would be appreciated by only special types of people. Definitely not the commercial movies of today with special effects and explosions in lieu of a real story. In this case the story is a bit confused but quite interesting.

coco

price

Reviewed in Canada on November 4, 2018

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good movie

Libby

Like V for Vendetta -everyone should watch that movie as ...

Reviewed in Canada on October 19, 2014

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This has such an interesting concept that everyone should try it to see what they think of it. Like V for Vendetta -everyone should watch that movie as well.