The Rundown (Full Screen Edition)

The Rundown (Full Screen Edition)
by Peter Berg

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Movie Review: The Best Action Film of the Year!
Summary: 5 Stars

In this movie The Rock plays Beck, an expect finder. He always gies people two options. For instance, in the beginning when trying to get a ring he gives them option A which is "Give me the ring," or option B which is "Have me make you give me the ring." Most people always choose the latter which NOT the way to go. He then proceeds to give you the beating of a lifetime. But he wants to get out of that and open his own resturant. His boss Billy agrees to let him be out, as long as he does one last job for him. The job is to travel to Brazel, the jungle, to get Billy's son Travis, who has been in the jungle searching for treasure. But he's gotten into so much trouble that his father has had to bail him out of prison. He is flown there by Declan and thinks that finding Travis will be a quick job, in and out. But of course problems arouse. Beck meets Hatcher, a businessman who uses the locals as slaves to mine gold for him. Hatcher finds Travis for him but when he finds out that Travis knows where a great artifact is, he decides not to let Beck take him back to his waiting father. But a fight between Beck and Hatcher, has Hatcher and his men wanting to find Travis and Beck dead. They do flee into the jungle, with Travis sturggling to regain his freedom. They do get help from local bartender Mariana who is looking for the same artifact that Travis knows where it is, so she can liberate her people.

"The Rundown" is loaded with action, effects, and comedy. It's loads of fun as well. It's not just a predictable action comedy, and they don't even use the character of Mariana as a love intertest to the character of Beck. Beck basically wanted to finsh the job so he can fullfill his dreams of becoming of chef in his resturant. I think that after this great work of film, The Rock can finally start starring in action movies that are worth seeing on the screen. His "The Scorpion King" was a good movie, but it's more of a movie that you rent rather then pay a large sum of money to see on the big screen. "The Mummy Returns" he had a very smaller part and it was his film debut so you pretty much didn't know what to expect. But he is a movie star now, because "The Rundown" proves it.

ENJOY!

Rated PG-13 for adventure violence and some crude dialogue.

Summary of The Rundown (Full Screen Edition)