Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #11875 in DVD
• Released on: 2004-07-26
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Anamorphic, Dubbed, PAL
• Original language: English, Portuguese
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 100 minutes

DVD Description
A contemporary tale about a bounty hunter named Beck who travels to the Amazon jungle to settle a debt by retrieving the son, of a wealthy underworld kingpin who has gone treasure hunting. However, the bounty hunter ends up joining forces with his target as the two attempt to beat the head of a local gold mining corporation to the treasure. To further complicate matters, they both fall for a local guide named Carmen.

Special Features

• Commentary by the Rock and Director Peter Berg
  
• Producer commentary
  
• Deleted scenes montage
  
• Rumble in the Jungle featurette
  
• The Amazon featurette
  
• Hawaii Style featurette
  
• Appetite for Destruction featurette
  
• A Rockumentary featurette
  
• Running Down the Town featurette
  
• Walken's World featurette
  
• Theatrical trailer
  
• Easter Eggs

DVD Technical Information:

• Running Time: 100 minutes
  
• Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround (English, Italian, Spanish)
  
• Subtitles: Dutch, English, Italian, Portugese, Spanish
  
• Aspect Ratio: Anamorphic - 2.35:1
  
• Disc Type: DVD-9
  
• Region Code: 2

Synopsis
The Rock (aka Duane Johnson) firmly establishes himself as a major Hollywood force in WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE, an engaging action-comedy directed by Peter Berg. Johnson/Rock plays Beck, a retriever-for-hire, who is sent on one final mission before he can retire and realize his dream of opening up a restaurant. Swapping the cement streets of Los Angeles for the jungles of the Amazon, Beck begins his quest to locate his boss' son, Travis (Seann William Scott). When he walks into the establishment of the beautiful Mariana (Rosario Dawson), he does just that. But before he can drag Travis back to the airstrip and deliver him to his father, the evil Hatcher (Christopher Walken) arrives and reminds Beck that this is his jurisdiction. Apparently, Travis is incredibly close to locating a rare relic, and until that happens, Hatcher isn't letting Travis out of his sight. Of course, Beck uses his talent for kicking ass to escape with Travis, but after their jeep tumbles off a mountain, they find themselves trapped in the jungle with Hatcher hot on their trail. Berg's film breathes with a lighthearted air that is truly refreshing for the action genre, while the relentlessly hilarious interplay between The Rock and Scott is a sight to behold.

Customer Reviews

A generic action film
THE RUNDOWN stars ex-wrestler and NFL wannabe Dwayne Johnson (aka The Rock) in a mishmash of just about every sort of action flick you've ever seen. It incorporates elements reminiscent (to me at least) of the Matrix, Indiana Jones, Jackie Chan, Romancing the Stone, Lethal Weapon, the Terminator, and Mad Max. Ok, ok - maybe I'm exaggerating. But you get my drift?

John is Beck, a "retrieval specialist", sent by his boss to the Brazilian Amazon jungle to recover his errant son, Travis (Seann William Scott). Trouble is, Travis doesn't want to leave - he's too busy tracking down an artifact of native treasure, a solid gold statue hidden in the jungle. This trinket thrusts Beck and Travis between battling armed nationalists, led by bar-owner Mariana (Rosario Dawson), and the stereotypic Evil White Man, Hatcher (Christopher Walken), whose empire is an enormous open-pit gold mining operation worked by downtrodden locals kept in line by whip-wielding thugs.

To my mind, THE RUNDOWN is saved by the likeable Beck and a strong performance by Walken. Otherwise, it's just a series of confrontations, mostly kung-fu action sequences, with a gun battle and a vehicle chase thrown in for variety. Mariana simply serves as eye-candy.

Is The Rock destined to be the next generation Tough Guy action hero? Perhaps. In a blink-of-an-eye cameo at the beginning of the film, Arnold Schwarzenegger passes Beck on the way out of a nightclub and says" Have fun!' Arnie is off to be Governor of California, leaving the heavy lifting to his successor.

This isn't a bad movie, and is an entertaining introduction to The Rock as a leading man of the genre. I just hope the plots of his future releases are a little more focused and, um (dare I say), intelligent. Also, THE RUNDOWN ends with the impression that Beck and Travis will continue on as a team. Oh, I hope not since the latter is one of the more clownish and irritating characters I've seen on the Big Screen lately. There's not the chemistry between the two as between Gibson and Glover (of the LETHAL WEAPON series), or Wilson and Chan (of the SHANGHAI series), or Smith and Jones (of the MEN IN BLACK series).

Great action flick - another "Rock-solid" performance
Any "one man" action movie these days has a tough job to do. The formula has been stretched out over many years any it's hard to find a fresh approach to the genre. Enter "The Rock" - tough guy of the 21st Century - now in his second major movie outing (not couting his cameo in Mummy Returns). In many ways, Rock has started out in much the same was as Schwarzenegger did, equalling Arnie's on-screen presence and infinitely better at delivering lines (although to Arnie's credit his robotic delivery became his trademark and he'd be nowhere without it). The Rocks impressive mobility and athleticism gives him more scope than the "brainless muscleman shooting" image that dominated the genre in the 80's and 90's.

Welcome To The Jungle is a fun "brain-off" movie that delivers action, adventure, one-liners and some impressive stunts. Adding the anti-gun storyline was a smart move as it benefitted the fight scenes as well as hyped up the inevitable showdown at the end. At 1hr 40mins this movie could have done with an extra 15mins or so to give some of the characters a fraction more depth. Christopher Walken takes on the "bad guy" role, although sadly isn't given much time to make the audience really dislike him. His exit from the movie is a classic overacted-badguy-death-sequence and Walken performed it perfectly. Seann William Scott played well against the Rock although I was left wondering whether it would have worked better with a "tougher" comedy actor instead (still can't watch him seriously after all the Pie/Dude movies). With a good supporting cast (although exactly WHICH accent was the pilot trying to do?) the film deserves all the credit it has received. For the legions of "WWE" Rock fans there are a few nice touches, most of which I'll leave for them to find, except to mention that Rock manages to work a "Rock Bottom" into one of the fight sequences.

So onwards and upwards for The Rock. This movie was a smart choice for him and I'd guess most people who like this movie will go and watch him again (Walking Tall, Scorpion King). Lets hope he soon ditches the "Rock" alias and starts appearing as Dwayne Johnson so we can stop seeing Vince McMahon on the closing credits as "Executive Producer" - I doubt the guy ever appeared on set at all.

Welcome to the jungle
hi, this film was a pleasent suprise when i watched it on sky movies that i went to buy it on DVD. it's a nice little action film that shouldn't be missed and i feel this is an underated film. it stars the rock who can act and give a believable performance in his fight scenes. which there are plenty of. there also a few action scenes whith guns which was nice to see as i'm not into all these kung foo things. you won't lose interest as it is very witty and with the bad guys constantly after them be sure to turn up the volume. overall you won't regret getting this if your any action/comedy fan or just want a good film to watch. thanks.