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River (2017)

This movie will surprise you! Trust me.

First let me warn you, this movie is actually a little rough to watch in the first half. The shots, acting, and story all seem a little to do-it-yourself-indie-filmmaker. But around the halfway point in the film something happens. I'm not sure if the filmmakers shot this part first and ran out of money for the beginning, or if they hit the lottery and finished the second half with an actual budget, but this film becomes an entirely different movie. The same story, actors, but everything is just so much better. The look of the film skyrockets to professional quality. There were some nice shots in the beginning, but so much better in the second half. The story makes way more sense, where the beginning seems very scattered, the end works so much better. I did kind of liked the music in the first half, but the film ends with "Come and Get Your Love" by Redbone! How do you not love that? Literally everything just plays so much better in the second half, and it leaves you wanting more. I was going to give it a an 8/9 review, but accidentally hit the 10. Either way they deserved it for taking a film from barely watchable to entertaining as hell.