The Rundown
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The Rundown is an adventure film sprinkled with humor and beautiful camera work.

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is Beck, a guy who provides muscle and does collection work for local loan shark, Billy Walker (William Lucking). Beck wants out of the racket to open his own restaurant, but Walker has one more collection that he needs performed. Walker wants Beck to get his son, Travis, played by Seann William Scott, from a small town in the Amazon jungle. It seems that Travis has crossed some of his father’s Chicago connections, and Walker needs to deliver the boy to them for unstated consequences.

Beck is hesitant to accept, but he takes the job after being guaranteed freedom from Walker and $250,000 to open his own restaurant. He also figures that it can’t be that difficult an assignment.

But what kind of movie would that be?

When Beck arrives to pick up his package, he discovers that the town is run by the corrupt Cornelius Hatcher, played by Christopher Walken. Playing it politically, Beck meets with Hatcher to find out where Travis is. $10,000 later, Beck is given “permission” to collect Travis, but a double-cross occurs when Hatcher discovers that Travis knows the location of a priceless gold artifact.

After a cool shoot-out in a bar, the audience finds out that Beck may be very anti-gun, but he can still “lay the smack down” on Hatcher’s men. It also leads to Travis and Beck traveling through the jungle together on their way back to the airstrip to catch a ride home. Of course, the jungle is filled with all kinds of dangers—including Hatcher’s men, rebels, and screaming monkeys.

The story moves in a very smooth flow, but there are times when the dialogue is not as strong as it could be. Johnson and Scott work well together, and they both show comedic flashes in the movie. Walken continues to prove his performance strength, but at times, he was a victim of less-than-great dialogue.

The cinematography in this film is awesome. The way scenes are framed and the fight sequences are superb.

The DVD is worth buying because in addition to a good film, there are a lot of extras. Access the bonus materials to get commentaries, six featurettes, deleted scenes, and DVD-ROM features.

Grade: B (movie) A (DVD)

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