Reviewing Movies

Based loosely on the series by Science Fiction/Fantasy writer Philip José Farmer this is a Sci Fi Channel made-for-TV movie. This is a high concept movie the premise being that everyone throughout history gets reincarnated in the prime of life on a planet dubbed Riverworld. The movie comes with its own built-in anachronisms placing in the same time-frame a space explorer from the future, an off-world alien, a Neanderthal man, the Roman Emperor Nero, and the author Mark Twain whom we find busy building a Mississippi Riverboat. Indeed, one of the actors actually died in a fall from its upper decks. This having been a pilot for a perspective series that has yet to have become realized the production values are better than average.

The Riverboat sequences, once we get to them half way through the movie, seem quite realistic; getting there requires a few coffees to maintain alertness. There are no name actors among the cast.