Strictly average movie

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

This is the lowest budget poorest drivel I've ever seen - EVER! I can't get that time back and for that reason I write this review. Life is too short to be wasting time on this nonsense... not a single interesting thing happens in the entire film. Sounds great. Apparently the books were good, but after this I'm not even interested in them!

Moderately poor acting, conventional villains, meaningless and useless people doing things for reasons no one understands. Slow slow slow paced beyond belief. Why don't they get a real sci-fi FAN to direct one of these things? This definitely had the look of a pilot for a series that was mercifully not funded/chosen for production. Too bad, because the book series is brilliant but frustrating. Still a worthy series worth a really serious film or TV series.This isn't it. Sam Clemens is such a goofball on this. The Alien is soooooooo poorly acted with such a truly lousy alien suit!!! Shades of the original Godzilla! The fight scenes are incredibly poorly staged. It is clear that nothing is happening, fight is unreal. The plot line has 'telegraph' points constantly telling you in advance that something is going to happen. What a drag. I had to force my self to stay tuned.

Though clearly in the minority in this forum, I liked the movie.Entertainment is successful when it stirs us (usually emotionally). Books do that by tickling our imagination and letting our minds fill in the blanks with whatever we choose. Cinematography stimulates us with (ever improving) visuals and still lets our minds fill in the blanks.It seems that Riverworld did just that for me. The movie provided two hours of entertainment and stimulation that left me wanting to see more. Exactly what I want in a movie.The movie ended with only part of the story having been told. Just like the Star Wars and LOTR movies, the story finds a natural break but doesn't complete. I doubt that a second movie will be made, but I'd like to see The SciFi Channel pick it up as an abbreviated series much like they did we The Dead Zone, Grey's Anatomy, etc. The real test will be if they can produce a series that earns a second season.As far as the variance from the books, I don't care. That's inevitable.

This movie sucks all the fun out of what fans of Farmer's series might expect. All is dreadfully serious (Sam Clemens, of all people, is boring...), the absurdity & whimsicality is sadly missing, and (just for instance) the ingenious "grails" have become mundane "canisters" (Does the sci-fi channel think we'll need a dictionary, or are they just afraid we'd be tempted to throw it at them if we had to get it out?) This last aspect is just one facet of a general tendency the picture has to take what it finds in the novels, dumb it all down to the level of a person who cannot read a novel, 7 go on from there. Plus the censors seem to have clipped the joints & dreamgum out of things (I may be wrong about this--there was a small part of this film I missed). Capital B Bleahh.