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Beck (The Rock) is running errands for a LA-mobster. His latest assignment, and his last before being set free, is to bring home the mobsters son Travis (Scott) who is hunting treasures in the deep Amazon jungle. Now Beck is a pretty competent bounty hunter, however now he become mixed up with Travis treasure-hunt, corrupted and cruel local boss Hatcher (Walken) and local rebels. Not to mention there is a jungle out there...
Now, before watching this I expected this to be an entertaining action movie with some explosions, choreographed hand to hand fights, some jokes and one-liners. I was disappointed. In one word one could sum up the movie to: Silly. The jokes were silly. Often with some adolescent humor or without any point. According to trivia the "lightning and thunder"-acts were improvised at first but kept in the movie because they were so funny. To whom? I just found them dull, stupid and silly. The fights were choreographed enough. Choreographed and defying gravity to the point you could "see" were the lines were attached to the actors that kept pretending to be superman and flew around. Predictable too, at first of course Beck took a beating few would survive but after getting mad enough just stood up and beat the crap out of everyone.
So, no suspense, just a few funny jokes, no good fights and actors that can do so much better. That counts for all of them but especially for Walken. However I believe that the major fault is that with the material at hand, no-one could have done better. And who got the brilliant idea to have Beck and Travis attacked by monkeys (baboons I believe) from Africa in the middle of the South-American jungle? And not to mention the free(?) commercial that XFL got...
There were only one memorable point from the entire movie, and that was Schwarzeneggers cameo, and that lasted for a couple of seconds at most. No, this was not good. The idea was nice, but please try again and do it better...
4/10
Beck (The Rock) is running errands for a LA-mobster. His latest assignment, and his last before being set free, is to bring home the mobsters son Travis (Scott) who is hunting treasures in the deep Amazon jungle. Now Beck is a pretty competent bounty hunter, however now he become mixed up with Travis treasure-hunt, corrupted and cruel local boss Hatcher (Walken) and local rebels. Not to mention there is a jungle out there...
Now, before watching this I expected this to be an entertaining action movie with some explosions, choreographed hand to hand fights, some jokes and one-liners. I was disappointed. In one word one could sum up the movie to: Silly. The jokes were silly. Often with some adolescent humor or without any point. According to trivia the "lightning and thunder"-acts were improvised at first but kept in the movie because they were so funny. To whom? I just found them dull, stupid and silly. The fights were choreographed enough. Choreographed and defying gravity to the point you could "see" were the lines were attached to the actors that kept pretending to be superman and flew around. Predictable too, at first of course Beck took a beating few would survive but after getting mad enough just stood up and beat the crap out of everyone.
So, no suspense, just a few funny jokes, no good fights and actors that can do so much better. That counts for all of them but especially for Walken. However I believe that the major fault is that with the material at hand, no-one could have done better. And who got the brilliant idea to have Beck and Travis attacked by monkeys (baboons I believe) from Africa in the middle of the South-American jungle? And not to mention the free(?) commercial that XFL got...
There were only one memorable point from the entire movie, and that was Schwarzeneggers cameo, and that lasted for a couple of seconds at most. No, this was not good. The idea was nice, but please try again and do it better...
4/10