“The River Wild” (*1/2 out of four) was an inferior in-name-only remake of the 1994 “classic” about a pair of distrustful siblings (Leighton Meester and Taram Killam) who go on a white-water rafting trip with a group of childhood friends, one of whom (Adam Brody) turns out to be a treacherous psycho who makes this into a very long and dangerous expedition. Film takes forever to get going and covers all-too-familiar terrain once it does; there was more nuance and character development and fierce action in the original even though that had weaknesses of its own. Meester is solid in the lead but obviously won’t make anyone forget Meryl Streep.