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Summary: The Rock, (...)
Review: This flick is carried by the charisma of THE ROCK. The plot, which centers around a 'recovery specialist' named Beck (THE ROCK) who is sent to the Amazon to collect the son of a mobster (SCOTT) who is on a treasure hunt, is solid at its base, but way too top heavy with silly fight scenes, hit or miss humor, and MTV style direction. This is one of those films that doesn't take itself seriously, hence the action/adventure angle is always on either side of the goofy line between funny and exciting. You can't help but like THE ROCK, there is something about him that captures your attention, but by the end of THE RUNDOWN, you feel slightly embarassed for him. It will be nice after a couple more movies to see him in full-on TOTAL RECALLish action mode. THE RUNDOWN isn't an awful film and does have a few entertaining moments, but must have looked a lot better on the printed page.
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Summary: Establishing The Rock as a bona fide movie star
Review: As far as action-comedies and buddy flicks go, "The Rundown" is just about as good as it gets. It also introduces The Rock to the general public as the forerunner of the next generation of action movie stars; someone who has the physical chops to truly be as menacing as his on-screen persona, but also can play self-deprecating humor quite well. In fact, it's the humorous bits The Rock played (screaming at monkeys; "these guys kick HARD!" although that latter bit never made it into the final film) that stuck in my memory the most as the most entertaining bits of the movie and showed a dimension to The Rock that longtime wrestling fans always knew were there, but which has not been displayed before the general public until now. The Rock proved that he can carry a film all by his lonesome with this movie, and solidified himself as a force in the action movie genre for some time to come.Seann William Scott, much to my surprise, comes off as something more than another typecast Stiffler character, which is admittedly his greatest strength. He convincingly plays a character who should be despicable and loathesome to the audience, but by the end of the movie, Scott has managed to make him sympathetic and praiseworthy. Unlike the role played by Johnny Knoxville in the recent "Walking Tall", Scott's role in "The Rundown" is much more important than comedic relief. It's through him that Beck (The Rock's character) comes to terms with the conflicts inside himself. Rosario Dawson's character could have been easily written off as annoying or just plain far fetched. A beautiful, female rebel leader who speaks perfect English and works as a barmaid by day? Ridiculous. But Dawson plays the character so convincingly that you quickly forget the ludicrous premise. To director Peter Berg's credit, he appears to simply get out of stunt coordinator Andy Cheng's way with the fight scenes and allows Cheng's strengths to shine through. There is a marked difference in quality between the fight scenes in "The Rundown" and "Walking Tall". "The Rundown" exhibits more kinetic, frantic and poetic fight scenes that are simply beautiful to watch. They can be watched again and again. The bonus features of this DVD should be better labelled. On the first screen of bonus features, one can view more features by clicking on "Back to Menu" (or something like that) at the bottom of the screen, even though that function would appear to take you back to the title screen. I don't buy many DVDs, but I'm glad I bought this one.
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Summary: Rumble in the Jungle/Babble-on in the Amazon
Review: The kids watch WWF (pro wrestling)and I got suckered into taking them to the movies. "The Rock is so Cool" was their review before seeing the movie. I braced myself for a muscle-headed comic book story. I was pleasantly surprised. I would not go so far as a 5 star rating, but there is no reason to RUNDOWN this heck of a fun ride. If producer and WWF owner Vince McMahon wants to adventure into the real world like this and stays on track with the Rock, I'll be dragging the kids to the movies more often. I would characterize this movie as an "imp-sit-com-action" flick. The situations are impossible and the comedey is hilarious. Sean William Scott as Travis Walker, and the Rock as Beck need to team up for a sequel. One snapshot still from the movie are both of them hanging upside down in snare traps with a wild monkey humping the Rock. Christopher Walken as Hatcher plays his usual enigmatic bad guy. When asked why he didn't hold to his deal with Beck, his simple response was "I had my fingers crossed." Rosario Dawson plays the beautiful bartender and gutsy leader of the "rabels." Ewen Bremner plays Declan and definitely needs a Speech Therapist. The only question is in which language. In trying to land his crop duster style plane in the middle of a herd of cattle, his expression is "thar's booze on the grind" ( trans. "bulls on the ground). Declan warns Beck, "lil' fella, if the joongle don't ge' ya, the rabels wool." As someone of Scottish, Irish heritage, I would normally take offense, but I was laughing too hard. As Declan might say, "ren' dis here moovie and hav' yerself a bloody goo' time."
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Summary: Lots of Action and Funny Too
Review: The Rock is coming into his own as a great action hero in "The Rundown" his second major motion picture as the lead character. He portrays Beck a wannabe restaurateur and "retrieval expert" for loan shark Billy Walker. However, Beck wants out of the business. Walker makes him a deal. Retrieve his son Travis (Seann William Scott) from the Amazon and all is even. From the very beginning there is pure action with Beck fighting single handedly against five gigantic professional football players in a nightclub. Beck always one to give a person options (usually "A"- the easy way or "B" - the hard way) doesn't like using a gun. Beck heads to Brazil for Travis and there he faces an assortment of obstacles from Travis himself, a crazy pilot with a plane held together with duck tape, his jeep going over a cliff, walking lost through the jungle, aggressive attaching monkeys, a local rebel faction who thinks he's the enemy, numerous fights, shoot outs and a ruthless mining magnet named Hatcher (Christopher Walken) with his psycho paid band army. It seems that Travis has discovered the whereabouts of an ancient priceless artifact that everyone is after while Beck just wants Travis to go back home. Rosario Dawson adds the feminine touch in this male dominated film. She is a bartender by day and rebel leader by night. The Rock displays action skills, depth and charisma. Seann William Scott is funny and quirky. Rosario Dawson is sincere and tough. And Christopher Walken is well in yet another film. If you want to be entertained, this film shouldn't disappoint. It's exciting and funny with no story gaps.
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Summary: Option A,Great Movie,Option B,A kick ass movie
Review: I really enjoyed The Rundown, it is full of comedy and action its everything u need, let me name the famous scenes 1)Rock gets beat up by midgets,really awesome 10/10
2)Rock gets humped by the monkey,funny has hell 9.5/10
3)Rock and Sean get dizzy from that stuff,awesome hilarious 10/10 1)Acting 9/10
2)Action 10/10
3)Plot 8.5/10
Get The Rundown now if u didnt see it
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Summary: Just A Whole Lotta Fun!
Review: If you watch this movie as a critic, you'll mess it all up. If you watch this movie for fun, you will have a blast. The opening scene, with The Rock attempting to collect a little "past due" cash from a gambling football player, was excellent. The Rock did an awesome job portraying a man about to get into some serious "toe-to-toe" knock-a-round. For anyone who has been in a real bar fight, this scene was right on the money. The Rock is excellent in this movie, and I finally have a new Steven Seagal to watch - seeing how all of Seagal's recent stuff sucks. Seann William Scott did an excellent job in this movie, too. Christopher Walken plays himself, as usual. But all and all, this movie is what a good action movie should be. I think The Rock has a great movie career going. Rundown is a definite hit. I suggest you push that "buy" button and enjoy! That's all I have to say about that...
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Summary: Better than I expected
Review: 1) Some very funny things. Nice to see The Rock willing to do some comedy by making a fool of himself
2) Christopher Walken was performing classic Walken dialog that just added the right touch 3) Sean William Scott delivers his normal sense of humor to the screen 4) Good action scenes 5) Plot wasn't great...totally knew what was going to happen beforehand. Overused plot formula, but it was forgiveable because I didn't expect much to begin with and the actors and dialogue made up for it. OVERALL: Enjoyable movie. Worth watching at least once. Makes me want to watch the Rock's Walking Tall movie that is due out soon.
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Summary: "Midnight" Rundown
Review: Remember that movie MIDNIGHT RUN from the late 80's with Robert DeNiro as the bounty hunter trying to duck the mob and bring a bailjumper back to LA? THE RUNDOWN is a higher energy, slightly less entertaining remake of almost the same story. Thankfully for us the audience there is not one boring moment in the movie and it is fun the whole way through. Rock in this film plays Beck, a quoted "Retrieval Expert" who specializes in picking up collatoral from deadbeats or troublemakers who owe money, favors or whatever. After a job goes sour, Beck demands out of the business so he can pursue his own future but his boss tells him he has one more job: Travel to the Amazon, pick up his son Travis and bring him home. Piece of cake right? Sure it is. Beck quickly finds the amazon a place not to be triffled with. His destination is a gold mining town (slave labor camp) run by it's iron fisted ruler (Christopher Walken complete with bad guy hat). The jungle, as his screw loose pilot tells him is full of poisonous animals and rebels and if thats not enough, Becks quarry Travis has got a motor mouth, who for the life of him can't keep his mouth shut after Beck makes it crystal clear, "your going home, no breaks". That doesn't prove to be the case as Travis has gotten into trouble with Hatcher, Walkens character. Hatcher knows Travis is on the verge of finding a rare idol that can be worth millions on the Black market. Beck gets in the middle and helps keep the idol out of Hatchers hands and his hands on Travis so that he can't get away. One thing about THE RUNDOWN is the things that surprised me. First of all I'm not a big wrestling fan and I at first dismissed Rock as "a dumb wrestler". I was wrong. He was funny and kept the action for the most part real even though the stylized action in this movie is off the chart. Seann William Scott as Travis also surprised me in that he was funny and had the skill to pull off the role. It's roles like this that I hope make people forget he was in those turgid American Pie sequels. In a rare move, Beck our hero avoids guns. He tries to rely on his fists and skill to win. Even after fights in the movie when he gets his hands on a gun, he casually discards it. Rock is clearly the best of the new line of action star. He's younger then Arnold, less stodgy then Seagal and is more likable then Cage. When somebody out there said that Rock was selected as the most likly candidate as Arnolds replacement in the Terminator movies, I believed it. Purists everywhere won't give him a chance, but I will, I bet he could do a great job in that role. He certainly did here.
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Summary: The Rock...rocks with action & laughs.
Review: I gave this movie two stars, but don't let that stop you from checking it out. If you like action, drama, hilarious laughs and fast pace...this is for you. I enjoyed it, but this is one of those movies that left me remembering the fight scenes, the funny scenes and the great performance of The Rock more so than what the movie was about. It didn't leave me wanting to remember why they were fighting, just that the fight was good. The comedy was not slap stick... just natural time & place humorous adventure. So if you are a Rock fan, like jungle adventure , action and want to laugh...this is a feel good kind of movie. There is a rhyme and reason to the plot, but so what.
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Summary: What the hell?
Review: I rented this movie thinking it was gonna be awesome. I wanted to see it in theaters, but I missed it. Let me tell you, I'm glad I didn't catch it in theaters. The trailer for it is awesome, I give it 5 stars. The movie was just stupid and I usually love these kind of movies. Christopher Walken is the best part of the movie. Unless you've seen this and liked it, don't buy it, rent it first. If you liked this movie, check out Firewalker if you've never seen it, it's a good older movie. Peace out,
Dustin
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