If it wasn’t for the trailer, which quickly showed all the key episodes of this film, it could be more interesting to watch. And so it turned out not the best story about the escape from justice filmed by the director-debutant, which although it can be called independent, but inferior to many of its relatives in the genre.
A young and inexperienced American doctor, who recently arrived in Laos as part of a volunteer mission, after hard work decided to go for some time to a neighboring island in order to dispel steam and take a little rest from work. One evening in a pub, he noticed two Australian tourists drinking a local girl, and on the way back he saw her lying down and raped.
The main character makes a decision, after which he has to go on the run in order not to be caught and not to become a hostage of bureaucratic justice. In the film The River, the protagonist appears in three guises - before this most sinister event that night near the bar, then his character as a refugee, and his final decision throughout this story towards the end of the film.
It seemed that all these three images absolutely do not fit into the psychological portrait of one person, which significantly reduces the sympathy of the viewer. Not a bad film for once, but the potential of the story is not fully disclosed, so the impressions of the film remained ambiguous.
5 out of 10