Taglines: Bulls, guns, whips, gold and one sacred cat.
Beck (The Rock) doesn’t look for or try to make trouble for anyone. But trouble is what he’s hired to clean up, and there’s one final mess he’s got to get out of before he can leave it all behind. And this one just keeps getting more and more tangled, like the Amazon jungle he’s been sent to in The Rundown.
At the center of his current trouble is a wise-ass named Travis (Scott), a fast-talking double dealer whose dad has commissioned Beck to retrieve from a lingering adventure in Brazil. Travis proves to be more of a handful than Beck expected, not only because of his mouth and his heels-dug-in reluctance to leave, but because of a couple of other complications he brings with him: Mariana (Rosario Dawson), a no-nonsense local who holds the answers to some of the jungle’s hidden mysteries, and Hatcher (Walken), an unhinged despot who has turned the jungle and its inhabitants into his own fortune-making, gold-mining empire.
Beck doesn’t like to fight. But he’s going to have to unleash everything he’s got to keep on top of his smack-talking quarry, the girl with the secret, the crazy tyrant, the horny monkeys, the hallucinogenic fruit, the backs-to-the-wall rebels, the perilous terrain, the hidden traps and every other obstacle that this jungle throws at him.
In the always rough, have-to-be tough urban jungle of Los Angeles, there are men like Beck (The Rock).well, not exactly like Beck-a man who uses whatever means are necessary to retrieve whatever he is paid to bring back. A marker, a late payment or a Super Bowl ring from a quarterback with gambling debts-Beck doesn’t differentiate and simply relies on his wits, his “let’s get this over with” attitude and his devastating physical prowess to get the job done. For him, it’s a simple, multiple-choice world: (A) Beck’s way, (B) Beck’s way with force, or (C).there is no “C.”
Beck doesn’t go looking for trouble, and he doesn’t like making trouble for anyone, either. Unfortunately, trouble is what he’s hired to clean up, and there’s one final mess he’s got to get out of before he can leave it all behind. And this one just keeps getting more and more tangled, like the Amazon jungle he’s been sent to in The Rundown.
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Directed by: Peter Berg
Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Seann William Scott, Christopher Walken, Rosario Dawson, William Lucking, Ewen Bremner
Screenplay by: James Vanderbilt, Kario Salem
Production Design by: Tom Duffield
Cinematography by: Tobias A. Schliessler
Film Editing by: Richard Pearson
Costume Design by: Louise Mingenbach
Set Decoration by: Gary Fettis
Music by: Harry Gregson-Williams
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for adventure violence, some crude dialogue.
Studio: Universal Pictures
Release Date: September 26, 2003
