I thought this film was actually pretty good but predictable. I watched it this morning on GET- TV. The film is set in Washington State with Ray Liotta as a veteran detective. When there is a serial killer on the loose, the investigation makes startling connections to Liotta's character.At first, he is under suspicion for the crimes. Ray Liotta does a decent acting job here as Detective Jack Verdon. The rest of the cast includes Ving Rhames and Christian Slater among the investigation team. The scenes by the river are quite picturesque. Jack's life is examined and there are flashbacks to his teenage years. He is happily married to Ana who can't have children. The film has terrible scenes of horror with the crimes. As soon as we know it isn't Jack, we're waiting for Jack to catch the killer. The ending is abrupt but predictable. The serial killer in this film reminds me of an episode of Criminal Minds. Anyway, if you enjoy crime and mystery films, you should watch this film just for entertainment.

I have to admit, I have no idea why the movie is called River Murders. Obviously there is something connected to it, but it makes it sound ... well different from what it is. Or I didn't get the connection between the title and the motive. That could be the case too of course. But what starts of nice, maybe even something that might upset you in the sense that you wonder what you'd do, does derail a bit towards the end, which is a shame.Performances are stellar throughout (except Christian Slater, who's doing his "crazy thing" again, but is more annoying than anything else), but not exceptional. There is a supposed punch at the end, which doesn't work so well. If you want real badness, watch "Sleep Tight". Now that's mad bad. Even before that final moment, there is another scene reminiscent of "Seven". Close, but no cigar then!

When the cover says 'not since Seven has a deadly sin been this terrifying,' what I expect is Seven, only much worse, because no respectable movie director attempts to make a movie with any similarity whatsoever to such a legend of a movie unless he's a really shocking director or a really cocky brilliant one paying respect, and the latter are rare. It's got the bible themed killings, except without the gore or the fear or the creativity or originality. And then, lo and behold, at the end the wife is taken captive by the killer, who calls for the husband-cop and Oh My God I never expected it...the cop kills the killer. Seven it is not. But it tries really, really hard to copy it exactly down to the 'shocking' final twist. I have never rolled my eyes as often in a movie as I did in this one. The most entertaining thing about Ray Liotta in this film is the enormity of his beer gut, which proceeds him everywhere he goes.The River Murders is the most predictable movie I've ever seen, with the worst script, cast, and directing in the history of my film watching career. The plot holes are so large you could fall through them from a mile high. And in the background, Christian Slater grabs desperate hold of the only role he could manage to land in what? The last decade? Oh well, he tries his best. There's your regular typecast cop actors as virtual extras. I can't believe they had the nerve to include a 'making of' featurette on the DVD. Needless to say, I didn't watch that just like I shouldn't have watched this film.

Wooden acting, laughable dialogue, and a completely implausible and unoriginal plot.For example: "I'm going to have to ask you to turn in your badge and your gun until we clear things up. I'm sorry."Given a second star because the photography and lighting met today's general standards, although without any particular effort on the part of the director of photography to strive for any originality or aesthetic quality.A stinkeroo. A doggie turd painted gold.You've been warned.