The Rundown (2003)

Director: Peter Berg

Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Sean William Scott, Rosario Dawson, Christopher Walken

More Info: IMDB

Tagline: Bulls, guns, whips, gold and one sacred cat

Plot: A tough aspiring chef is hired to bring home a mobster's son from the Amazon but becomes involved in the fight against an oppressive town operator and the search for a legendary treasure.



My Rating: 7/10

Would I watch it again? Sure

Fun, fun, fun movie. It's the first film I've seen Johnson in (I saw this in the theater previously) and I was surprised at how charismatic he was. Scott is funny as is the banter between him and Johnson. Walken is always fun to watch. Dawson wasn't very good. And I like her. She's definitely gotten better but then that's when she worked with Kevin Smith, Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez and those guys can get great performances out of anyone.

The opening sequence with Johnson on a job to extract something from a football player in a club is fucking awesome. After that the picture moves along at a pretty good clip. It's funny and it's doing a little something different with the genre. It's just damn fun. But about halfway through the movie Dawson show back up in the jungle to save the day and from that point for the next half hour it's downhill. Not as much action, not as much humor and not as much chemistry. It's still fun but that last 2/3 drag brings it down. Other than that it was a blast.