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The most important part of The Rundown occurs in the opening sequence when The Rock, as a talented bounty hunter named Beck, passes Arnold Schwarzenegger as he's on his way into a night club to kick some butt. As Schwarzenegger is walking towards the exit, he pauses for moment and says to The Rock, "Have fun." It's kind've a wierd, meta-textual little moment, seeming to mean that, symobically, Schwarzenegger is 'on the way out' and The Rock is 'on the way in', and that The Rock should make the most of his inevitable rise as an action star and "Have fun". I don't think it's far-fetched to think that this is what directer Peter Berg had in mind, because it turns out that The Rock is a really good action movie star, who quite seriously has the potential to be the next Schwarzenegger or Stallone or early-career-Willis.
That's really about the smartest moment you'll find in The Rundown, though. It's an otherwise fairly straightforward action-flick/buddy-movie, about something to do with lost treasure in the jungle or something; but the performances of stars Seann William Scott, Christopher Walken, and especially The Rock make for a really entertaining movie. All of the scenes with Seann William Scott and The Rock were really funny, and the two of them have great comedic chemistry together. Christopher Walken's performance is so ridiculuously over-the-top that it's like watching Christopher Walken do a Christopher Walken parody.
There's some pretty amazing physical stunts here, too. There's lots of falling and getting hit with things in this movie, and somehow the filmmakers really made it seemed like those things hurt -- especially the falling bits. Um, I think you can call that further praise for the film.
I was a little suspicious of The Rock as a movie star, at first. After seeing The Rundown though, I'm completely convinced that the guy should drop all that wrestling nonsense and become a full-time actor. He's that good. And the movie's worth seeing too.
when i first saw the scorpion king, i was pretty surpised at how good it actually was...the rundown was even better (although you can't totally compare the two, aside from being "action flicks starring the rock," they're not very similar at all)
now where was i going with that? oh yeah, the rock CAN act...damnit, why does his name have to be "the rock?" that's dumb...anyhoo, i think the reason for that is what makes great actors GREAT, the fact that he doesn't really seem to be acting at all...now this could just be because the audience is used to his OVERacting in the WWF, but still, it all came across as very natural
i hope that he stays away from straightforward action movies (although i don't think it's wise to stick with strictly "action comedies" either)
bravo, "the rock," and bravo stifler and christopher "william shatner gets ragged on for what makes me great" walken
I did enjoy this movie, although I do think some of the parts were a little far-fetched.
1)The Fall. How the hell did they even survive, let alone get up and walk for miles/fight some bad guys?
2)The whole rebel martial-arts fight (although it did look crazy-cool)
3)The monkeys. It was hilarious, but I didn't buy it for a second.
Other then those things, I thought it was funny. Sean and Rock did have good chemistry, as Geoff mentioned. Walken was hilarious, the whole tooth fairy bit had me crackin up. Oh, I thought of some more parts I don't think helped the movie:
4)The whip guys. I really don't think the Rock, or anyone for that matter, could do what he did with them.
5)The whole gun thing. What the hell was with that! Honestly, when what happened eventually happened (try SO hard not to write a spoiler) I was very dissapointed. There weren't even semi-autos :(
Anyway, I think it was a funny movie overall, and the Rock wasn't bad etc etc. BUT WHERE WERE THE CLASSIC ROCK MOVES!? WITH ALL THE FIGHTING THERE SHOULD HAVE BEEN LOTS! (The point of the movie wasnt to have him do them, and I think he did the rockbottom, but I still think he could have said "Can you smell what I'm cookin?" After all, he is a chef)
Hey Randy, what name would you prefer he goes by. Something cool like "THE ROCK", or something kinda wussy like "Dwayne Johnson"?
And Pete, I'm glad they didn't use any wrestling moves or sayings because that kinda ruins it. He's an actor, not a wrestler in the movie. They did the rockbottom and peoples eyebrow, and that was enough. Surprisingly that was all seeing how the WWE put some money into the film.
Uhh, "The Rock" isn't a cool name. It's really silly.
Though "Dwayne Johnson" is almost worse, I guess :-)
Pete, at first I was thinking that if he'd done any more wrestling-related stuff it would've been dumb, but I actually think it might've been funny if he had a "Can you smell what I'm cooking" line, or something like that having to do with him being a chef.
i like how "the people's eyebrow" is a wrestling move...
:rollseyes:
I'm just a comic genius not understood in my own time...except by Geoff (kinda)
um, it was chris who said it...you're not a genius at all... if anyone, CHRIS is the genius (that's the only time he'll ever hear that!)
Pete, apparently, doesn't even understand his own genius.
Who's a genius?
They fmield alot of this movie where I live (Winnipeg, MB – Norm Macdonald’s been here a couple times!). I didn’t think it was possible, but they managed to make this movie look as bland as the place it was shot in
If the press reealse didn’t say “Seann William Scott is FINALLY reunited with Eugene Levy…” I’ll eat my belt.