 | Starring: Brad Johnson, Karen Holness, Emily Lloyd, Jeremy Birchall, Kevin Smith Director: Kari Skogland Format: Closed-captioned Colour Dolby DVD-Video Subtitled Widescreen NTSC Released: 16 Nov 2004 Average Rating:  |
All in alll we have a good story-line & some very competent international actors & actresses.
Our main protagonist & hero is a man callled Jeff Hale (a sexy American in the guise of Brad Johnson), once an astronaut who died in a crash & is reborn out of a bubble that is pierced with a spear along with other people who have lived throughout most of human history & who have somehow ended up on a mysterious planet callled 'Riverworld'.
It seems that anyone who has ever lived & died on Earth comes to Riverworld rather than an afterlife & this does not exclude other world beings either. An extra-terrestrial calll Monat (Brian Moore) has the unfortunate luck of dying on earth in 2039 when his space craft crashed & he too is "reborn" to Riverworld & alll its mysteries & secrets.
The humans which include Emily Lloyd as Alice Liddell Hardgreaves, an African Priestess calll Mali, (Karen Holness) & one Alien are pretty much left to their own devices & as you can imagine they end up becoming quite tribal in their outlook, especiallly as the Emperor Nero (the English actor Jonathan Cake looking pretty hot despite being a baddie!) has been reborn & he's looking to rule the "new born ones" in the only way he knows how, through the blade & sheer brutality,
A few of the "new born ones" get together & with Hale lead a revolt against Nero & in a river-boat designed by the mysterious Sam (Australian actor Cameron Daddo) set off to explore this mysterious new world made up of connecting rivers that lead to.....?
There is also a mysterious race of black hooded 'beings' who seem to have some sort of cosmic plan for the rebels in the riverboat but we aren't privy to what it is & this is a little irritating as there is no sequel to explain it alll but that is what happens when a pilot movies flops.
All the same I reallly enjoyed this, & there is a nice little twist in the tale as you find out who "Sam" was in his previous life.
Not as bad as alll the critics are making out, there are a lot worse Sci-Fi films out there, that is for sure!
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