Rating: PG13
Genre:
Action
Theatrical Release: 09/26/2003(USA)
Release Date: 02/10/2009
SubTitles: Espanol/French
Dubbed: English/Espanol/French
Sound: DTS-ESM/DD2
Run Time: 105 Minutes
Flags: Violence, Adult Language
Distributor/Studio: Universal Studios
Beck (
The Rock) is a "retrieval specialist" 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 fulfill his dream if he does one more job. He sends
Beck into the Brazilian rainforest to bring back his wayward son,
Travis (
Seann William Scott).
Travis is down there looking for a legendary idol,
El Gato Diablo, which he could sell for millions if he found it. A pretty local,
Mariana (
Rosario Dawson), offers
Travis the use of her boat in exchange for a cut of the take on the statue. But the powerful
Hatcher (
Christopher Walken) 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 U.S. 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 them stranded in the jungle, where they're confronted with horny 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 for getting involved.
The Rundown, the second film directed by actor
Peter Berg (
Very Bad Things), features a brief, uncredited cameo by
Arnold Schwarzenegger.
~ Josh Ralske, All Movie Guide
