svodden-11365 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!

leonidus1956 Absolutely one of the worst book-to-film adaptations I have ever seen. Alex Proyas has been involved in some works ( Dark City, The Crow ) that I really enjoyed but this was awful...there was so much potential in the novels and perhaps even the attempt to condense them into a 2 hour movie was doomed to fail but, seriously, horses ?!?!? There were no animals (other than fish and worms) mentioned in the books but the addition of horses obviously dramatically changed the dynamics of the human societies that evolved after the "resurrections" and not in ways that are even remotely faithful to Mr. Farmers original vision. I always admired the concept of the Riverworld both from the point of view of the author, being able to script interactions between all my favorite characters from all of human history, as well as the pure joy of reading these works and unraveling the mysteries of the Riverworld.

CAL FORD I don't understand the Sci Fi channel, somehow these idiots have money, production studios, staff - yet they produce trash. I've seen college productions that had more depth and quality. The worst part of Sci Fi is that they absorb the sci fi world on cable, not leaving room for actual quality productions.River World is a good example of a production that had good actors and lots of money yet the product is a pure waste of time. Either the management of Sci Fi Channel are incompetent or the Sci Fi is actively dumbing down the population. That would be a great Sci Fi show, how a cable channel is in conspiracy with some invisible group to turn society into drooling robots who never ask questions and only follow the Sci Fi channel's programming.

CaballoVerde 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.