Decent premise, nice setup, current issues - relevant, good list of actors - then thud. The movie fell with a hard clunk. John Cusak should have been used way more and giving another dimension to his I.A. character. Taye Diggs path for redemption should have been more clear and thought out. He was a Judge for goodness sakes - his resources and partnership with Cusak could have been way stronger. Seems an unlikely path. Wife was wooden and her lines were horrible. The corrupt cops were cornball. The guilty cops suffering wife had some of the best lines and acting and she wasn't in that many scenes! Was not well written. I could have done 100% better and I do write screenplays lol. I kept constantly thinking, I would have done it 'this way'. And the climax, really? So, nothing solved. Waste of time. Then, what was up with the lighting and weird edits? Had to mess with the tracking trying to light up the flick. Frustrating film altogether.
Review of River Runs Red
