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Movie: The rundown
WWE superstar Rock is back as Beck in his latest action packed adventure film The Rundown.
Beck is a retrieval expert in hock to a powerful and not particularly nice gentleman named Walker (William Lucking). Beck is anxious to retire from his dangerous work and open a small restaurant. Walker tells Beck he’ll be free and clear with enough cash to fulfil his dream if he does one more job.
He sends Beck into the Brazilian rainforest to bring back his wayward son, Travis (Sean William Scott). But Travis isn’t about to leave without a prize (an artifact) hidden deep in the jungle. Beck also has some competition, including Mariana (Rosario Dawson) a rebel leader posing as a downtrodden bartender, and Hatcher (Christopher Walken)who owns the area’s huge mine, where locals work for slave wages, and feels that anything found in the area is his property. He refuses to let Beck take Travis back to the US until the statue is in his hands. Using his estimable fighting prowess (he doesn’t like guns), Beck manages to get Travis out of town, but Travis doesn’t want to go home, and he ends up getting both of them stranded in the jungle, where they’re confronted with mischievous monkeys and angry guerrillas. To make matters worse, Hatcher and his thugs are hot on their trail, and Mariana turns out to have her own motives. Now Beck and Travis must team up to counter the challenges the jungle throws their way.
Director Peter Berg’s The Rundown is unexpectedly entertaining and well-executed action comedy carried comfortably by Sean William Scott and The Rock — who reveals his classy transition from WWE star to a charming and charismatic big-screen action hero.
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