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Release Date: 23 March, 2004 Retail Price: $19.98 OUR Price: $15.98 You SAVE: $4.00! Cast: Complete Cast (17 total) |
The Rundown (Widescreen Edition) Reviews
The Rock in South America
"Rundown" really suprised me. I was expecting a streight forward adventure flick. What I got was an over the top action opus. The Rock plays Beck, an L.A. bounty hunter who's working off his own debt to a loan shark. For his last job, he is assigned to retrieve Travis (Scen William Scott). Travis is an Indiana Jones wanna-be who is in South America looking for a lost Incan idol. Along the way, Beck and Travis run afowl of the local mob guy Hatcher (Christopher Walken). Now they are running through the tropical rainforests, and having several misadventures involving gurrella rebels, waterfalls, and monkeys. The Rock is all right, still seemed a little wooded, though. Scott is funny, but is subdued here from his "American Pie" persona because of the PG-13 rating. Christopher Walken is a lot of fun with his scene chewing heavy. The action is very highly stylized. The Rock seems able to fly, and he seems to have superheroic endurence and an impossible tolerence for pain. The stunts are good, except they are on level like a video game, kind of like "The Matrix". That is where the movie is won or lost for me, and I liked it, for better or for worse. So, "Rundown" is a light comedy adventure, suitable for the whole family.
SURPRISINGLY GOOD ACTION FILM
Typically, pro wrestlers have not enjoyed a great deal of success in their acting careers, usually being typecast in dumb, tough guy roles. The Rock makes his second starring appearance and does very well.
He plays Beck, a combination bounty hunter and rep man who works for the mob. In a great opening sequence, he visits a night club to collect on a gambling debt owed by a pro football player. When the player doesn't have the money, Beck says he will take his super bowl ring as collateral.
Of course, to get it, Beck has to go through the Clubs bouncers and the teams Offensive linemen to collect in a well done action sequence.
Beck seems to be in debt to this mobster and agrees to one last job to clear his slate and open his restaurant. He has to go to Brazil and bring back the mobsters son (play by Seann William Scott) from the Amazon jungle.
Unfortuantely it's not that simple. Seems another American named Hatcher (played by Christopher Walken) has built a small village and is using the villagers as slave labor to work in his goldmine. What's more Travis (the son) knows where to find a valuable artifact that Hatcher wants so he won't let him leave.
Beck and Travis escape Hatchers goons but then get lost in the jungle wherein they encounter traps, fierce monkeys, and rebel soldiers.
The movie does a grat job of mixing action and humor and the two stars really ahd good chemistry together. The Rock seemed very polished and at ease in only his second starring role.
Good popcorn movie.
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