The Rundown
Skip through the supposedly funny walk through the jungle scenes and you’ll be left with a suprising cool action flick.
Let me start out by say I had very miserable expectations forThe Rundown , star " The Rock " ( real name : Dwayne Douglas Johnson ) . He play Beck , a " retrieval expert " with no fear of anyone , but who has an aversion to hitman , who find to desire to retire from the strongarm game to unfold …. a eating place .
One of the first thing to take hold of my heart was the very brief cameo by Arnold Schwarzenneger , with a sententious comment wherein he passes the action hero blowlamp to Johnson . The next matter to storm me was how low fundamental Johnson ’s operation was … it was certainly not nuanced , but I expected a boisterous , WWF - style presentation . Instead he was calm , quiet , and menacing in a " base on balls restfully and stockpile a big stick " kind of elbow room . Of course within minutes there is a big fight prospect , and let me say you thatthisis where this motion-picture show excels . Some of the coolest , get - you - fired - up stuff I ’ve seen lately .
I was set out to care that I was really going tolikethis motion-picture show , but alas , eventually Seann William Scott ( Stiffler fromAmerican Pie ) in the persona of n’er do well portion hunter Travis appear on screen , and as matter progress , his involvement in the movie is what weakens it .
Beck has to do one final task in parliamentary law to give up the game and clear enough seed money to go his restaurant : get hold Travis , who is in the Amazon , and contribute him back to his ( Travis ' ) father for see some payback - type obligation .
Beck make it down to Brazil , where he meets with Christopher Walken who plays Hatcher , a severely - boil type paying hard worker wages to the topical anesthetic who are mine gold for him . Hatcher execute the township , and demands a cutting off of everything worth anything .
As usual , Walken excels at the weird / creepy bad hombre function . He plays it here kind of tounge - in - cheek , and I enjoyed watching him have play .
Travis claims to know where a rare atomic number 79 idol ( El Gato ) worth meg can be determine , but Beck does n’t want to hear any of it . A street - smart local bar proprietor , Marianna ( played by Rosario Dawson ) leverages her way into the deal , complications ensue , Beck must compromise and go after the perfection after all , and Hatcher ends up on their derriere .
It ’s all extremely predictable , but if manager Peter Berg had stuck to make this an former Ahnuld - character square natural process movie , this would have been a keen popcorn flick . Johnson plays Beck with a imperturbability that makes me want to see the fictitious character come back in another movie , and where this movie rock is during the battle and action sequence . regrettably Berg ( or the force - that - be ) decided that this should be an action - comedy , and the scenes where this plastic film essay to be funny ( with the exception of one hobo camp scene towards the end ) fall totally flat . And even in that prospect it ’s " The Rock " who gets the laugh , not Scott .
It would n’t be difficult to cut out the ha - ha poppycock without sham the overall pic , and it would be a better motion picture for it . Rent it , skim most of the walking through the jungle stuff with just The Rock and Scott , and you may really enjoy it .
