Too much of everything

Surprisingly incoherent and boring

How sad is this?

Excellent adaptation.

"John Sanders" (Lou Diamond Phillips) is a fisherman who is having problems making payments on his boat. So when his ex-wife, "Dr. Kelli Raymond" (Kristy Swanson) comes along and offers him a quick job helping out on an oil rig he reluctantly agrees and takes her, his colleague "Emery Brousard" (Rob Boltin) and an oil executive named "Gene Bradley" (Gideon Emery) up the Atchafalaya River where the rig is located. At the same time there are reports of a huge bull-shark in these same waters which causes concern to everybody on board but they speculate that it has gone up-stream and continue about their business. When they finally get to the rig they find another boat nearby and wonder what these people are up to. At first they think that they are from a rival oil company but as it turns out that they are drug dealers who are diving in the water in search of a safe filled with money. And they are just as deadly as the shark. Anyway, rather than detail the entire story and risk spoiling the film for those who haven't seen it I will just say that this wasn't too bad for a "made-for-television" movie. Although some parts were rather typical for a movie of this type and there were scenes which were a little slow I still enjoyed it for the most part. Obviously, being a made-for-television movie there isn't any sex, profanity or graphic violence which might have actually benefited what I considered to be a relatively mild "shark movie". Be that as it may I rate the movie as about average.

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")

For me the highlight of the movie was the very short snippet of music they played just as Ms Swansen makes her appearance.(can't seem to find who it was by though) I don't know why, but I never seem to feel for the characters in these U.S movies. When Phillips relayed his hard luck story I thought we had jumped into a Leslie Nilson Parody. They could have all got eaten for all I cared, there was nobody there I would miss.Being under water with no air is at least as scary as the shark, but they didn't make much about that. In life people change from good to bad and back to good again with each passing moment, but not in This movie, a gangster is a gangster and a fisherman ain't ever gonna become the skipper.do we all get so easily confused if people change sides. As usual I could have told you at the beginning of the movie who would survive and who wouldn't. The effects were good enough, especially for anyone who grew up with Gerry Anderson shows on Saturday mornings,and movies where the monster was always just outside the screen shot. but if you're not already sat on the edge of your seat before the monster appears then no amount of effects will save the movie.An extra couple of hours to go over the script, put in some humour and some 'real people things' Oh and a little more of the decent music, and This 3 star movie could have been an 8+ on the same budget.

"Oh no, not another one" was the first thing I thought when I discovered this movie at my local video store. But being a fan of animal horror movies I couldn't resist, and so I watched it. And I don't regret I did. It's not the usual shark horror movie. It's rather an action thriller where one of the villains happens to be a man-eating shark. Well, the only disappointment for me was that this movie was produced for TV and therefore doesn't have the qualities of a big screen movie. But Lou Diamond Phillips, Kristy Swanson and the other actors give their best to make this an above average TV production. The story is good, but nothing we haven't seen before. The action is okay, and the shark effects are well done. I've been disappointed more than twice with Lou Diamond Phillips' movies in the past few years but in "Red Water" he did some great acting. I also loved the Louisiana setting with Cajun music and nice atmospheric sceneries. Since it doesn't have a lot of new ideas, though, I'll give it 6 out of 10, but if you get a chance, watch it. It's worth your while, if only an alternative to a boring TV program. Jasper P. Morgan