The Rundown

Following his appearance in The Mummy Returns and The Scorpion King, in 2003 Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson began a series of middling to fair action flicks (most of which are easily forgettable, although The Rundown is one of the better ones). The Rock stars as Beck, a retrieval specialist working off his debt to Billy Walker (William Lucking) who offers to cancel Beck's debt if he retrieves Walker's loudmouth son Travis (Seann William Scott in the kind of role Ryan Reynolds would corner the market on by the end of the decade) from the Amazon where he's searching for treasure.

Beck's job is complicated by the region's local warlord (Christopher Walken who goes even crazier than Lucking) enslaving the locals to work his mine, Travis' refusal to return home, some very horny monkeys, and a group of rebels who include Rosario Dawson. 

The running gag that starts early is Beck doesn't like guns, but that doesn't mean he doesn't know how to use them as we see in the film's climactic action scene in which he destroys Beck's army and frees the locals of his control. The Rundown is a fun enough watch, but it does feel a bit lost to time and wouldn't be the first film you would associate with any of its stars.

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• Title: The Rundown
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