Monday, March 15, 2004
Movie Review - The Rundown (2003)
Thoughts going in: The Rock, Christopher Walken, jungles of South America - could this be a return to the decent action movies of the 80s?
Thoughts going out: Yeah, it just might be. Dwayne Johnson (a/k/a "The Rock") acquitted himself well here, taking care of the one-liners and the bad guys with equal aplomb. Seann William "Stifler" Scott is the Gen X (or is that Gen Y) Tom Arnold, providing the comic relief, and Walken, as usual, is in a world unto himself. Plus, there's a cameo from Ah-nuld himself, symbolically passing the torch with a "haff fun" to The Rock as he enters a nightclub in the pre-credits sequence. I'm also a character actor afficionado, and the sublime Jon Gries (a real find carrying the Polish Brothers' Jackpot) is good fun as Walken's hapless henchman, spending much of the film wearing a nose bandage a la Jack Nicholson in Chinatown. All in all, good fun.
Rating (1-100): 72.
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Thoughts going out: Yeah, it just might be. Dwayne Johnson (a/k/a "The Rock") acquitted himself well here, taking care of the one-liners and the bad guys with equal aplomb. Seann William "Stifler" Scott is the Gen X (or is that Gen Y) Tom Arnold, providing the comic relief, and Walken, as usual, is in a world unto himself. Plus, there's a cameo from Ah-nuld himself, symbolically passing the torch with a "haff fun" to The Rock as he enters a nightclub in the pre-credits sequence. I'm also a character actor afficionado, and the sublime Jon Gries (a real find carrying the Polish Brothers' Jackpot) is good fun as Walken's hapless henchman, spending much of the film wearing a nose bandage a la Jack Nicholson in Chinatown. All in all, good fun.
Rating (1-100): 72.
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