Plodding and painfully boring and filled with irrational moralizing

Rating: 1/10 (31 July 2017)

I read reviews that gave me a pretty good idea of what I would face if I foolishly attempted to watch this movie.
I thought, "How bad could it be?", but then found it it was even worse than could be imagined.
First of all this film is achingly dull, and filled with absolutely implausible scenarios like rafts that somehow magically float upstream.
The music is drab and the dialog is forced and stilted...and all the young characters speak in that faux-Shakespearean English that has become ubiquitous in so many movies today where apparently no one has ever heard of a contraction before.
Usually, films give you establishing shots and introduce characters in some kind of chronological order. This one dispenses with that, however, and characters appear at midpoints in scenes as though they were always there. It is a REALLY weird directorial or editing decision! Maybe it had to do with the film's budget...but it was very strange.
With all that said, what really killed this film dead for me is it's heavy handed moralizing.
If you love being lectured as you watch movies...then this one is for you.
If you're looking for a somewhat realistic story, decent acting and some sense of being entertained — then run from this one as fast as you possibly can.