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This film has no point whatsoever. Basically, this is about a family that goes on a rafting vacation...They meet these bad guys that end up kidnapping them so that Meryl Streep's character can take them down this very dangerous river as their guide so they can escape far away. She insists that it's too dangerous and that they're most likely going to die. Things happen, the father, believed to be dead, escapes. Very predictable, but at this point things get worse. The dad escapes in the mountains and walks all the way to the end of the rapids his family and criminals are about to go through...to save them...Of what? Who knows? Seeing as the main thing threatening their lives at the moment is going down those damn waterfalls...anyway, they do it and survive and go "WOW we've done it, we're alive! Yay!". But the question is, "If the father could so easily walk his way there, couldn't the bad guys walk there as well instead of pointlessly risking their lives rafting???". And how the father got there before them shall stay a mystery (and he got there WAY before them). So what's the point of this film? This is an unforgivable mistake. Awful.
This film has no point whatsoever. Basically, this is about a family that goes on a rafting vacation...They meet these bad guys that end up kidnapping them so that Meryl Streep's character can take them down this very dangerous river as their guide so they can escape far away. She insists that it's too dangerous and that they're most likely going to die. Things happen, the father, believed to be dead, escapes. Very predictable, but at this point things get worse. The dad escapes in the mountains and walks all the way to the end of the rapids his family and criminals are about to go through...to save them...Of what? Who knows? Seeing as the main thing threatening their lives at the moment is going down those damn waterfalls...anyway, they do it and survive and go "WOW we've done it, we're alive! Yay!". But the question is, "If the father could so easily walk his way there, couldn't the bad guys walk there as well instead of pointlessly risking their lives rafting???". And how the father got there before them shall stay a mystery (and he got there WAY before them). So what's the point of this film? This is an unforgivable mistake. Awful.