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Rundown, The (2003)


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Four out of Five

Movie

Rating: PG-13 (for adventure violence and some crude dialogue)
Length: 104 minutes

Video

Widescreen 2.35:1 Color (Anamorphic)

Audio

ENGLISH: Dolby Digital 5.1
FRENCH: Dolby Digital 2.0
SPANISH: Dolby Digital 2.0

Captions

French, Spanish

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Plot

A chef/tough guy (The Rock) beholden to the mob is sent to Brazil on one last errand to retrieve the son of the mob leader.

Pros

This is a very funny and well written movie whose main characters consist of:
  1. A cool hired hand (The Rock) that doesn't particularly enjoy what he does but is damn good at it
  2. A smart-ass/whiney mob son (Scott) that is quick on the banter and isn't very trustworthy
  3. The lovely barmaid and girlfriend (Dawson) that turns out to be more than she appears
  4. The greedy land owner/bad guy (Walken) that steals every scene he's in

Cons

There's some ever-the-top action including a cliff and some crazy wire-work during a fight scene.

Extras

  • Commentary by The Rock and Director Peter Berg
  • Commentary by producers Kevin Misher and Marc Abraham
  • "Rumble in the Jungle" Featurette
  • "Appetite for Destruction" Featurette
  • "The Amazon, Hawaii Style" Featurette
  • "Running Down the Town" Featurette
  • Walken's World
  • The Rundown Uncensored
  • Deleted Scenes

Recommendation

This is a very entertaining movie that didn't win any awards but wasn't trying too. And, with only a PG-13 rating (got to keep it low enough for those wrestling fans) this can be enjoyed by all but the youngest of family members.

Director

Actors

Stephen Bishop - Knappmiller
Ewen Bremner - Declan
[AVP: Alien vs. Predator, Black Hawk Down, Pearl Harbor, Snatch, Trainspotting]
Rosario Dawson - Mariana
[25th Hour, Alexander, Clerks II, Death Proof, Men in Black II, Shattered Glass, Sin City]
Toby Holguin - Head Indian Tracker
Jon Gries - Harvey
[Get Shorty, Helter Skelter, Men In Black, Northfork]
Dwayne Johnson - Beck
[Be Cool, Doom, The Game Plan, Get Smart, The Mummy Returns, The Scorpion King, Walking Tall]
Dennis Keiffer - Naylor
William Lucking - Walker
Chuck Norman - Mullaire
Paul S. Power - Martin
Ernie Reyes Jr. - Manito
[Red Sonja]
Seann William Scott - Travis
[Evolution, Final Destination, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Old School]
Christopher Walken - Hatcher
[A View to a Kill, Batman Returns, The Deer Hunter, King of New York, Man on Fire, Pulp Fiction, Sleepy Hollow, Suicide Kings, True Romance]
Garrett Warren - Henshaw
Stuart F. Wilson - Swenson

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