Rachel Costelow
The Rundown Starring Seann William Scott (American Pie), Christopher Walken (Catch Me If You Can), The Rock (Pro Wrestler) and Rosario Dawson (Pluto Nash).
Beck (The Rock) is a loan shark’s advocate who is sent on a mission to Brazil to retrieve the loan sharks son, Travis (Seann William Scott). Travis would not come willingly because of a treasure he had supposedly found Beck is forced to try and take him to the plane against his will.
Enter Hatcher (Christopher Walken), the owner of an open pit that he calls a gold mine. He took over the people and turned them all into slaves and pays them near to nothing. He won’t allow Travis to leave because of the supposed treasure that Travis has the map.
After thoroughly beating the crap out of all of Hatchers men with out using any weapons. He attempts once again to take Travis to the airstrip. It would have been successful if Travis had not proceeded to steer the Jeep off a cliff that lead down a very, very deep canyon.
Then they are forced to rough it out until they meet a bunch of rebels who ties them up. While Travis is supposed to be negotiating their escape he is lying to both the Rebels and Beck, by saying he wanted to challenge them. After Beck and several of the Rebels begin to fight, it is broken up by Mariana (Rosario Dawson) who was the barmaid back at the town that Hatcher owns.
After Travis and Beck blow the town to pieces, and shoot Hatcher. Beck takes Travis back to his Father. After successfully dropping him off he decides that Travis shouldn’t be left in his care. So he drugged him and after he was knocked out takes Travis back.
It seems like its been a while since there has been a real action hero in a movie. Let alone a movie that has achieved such high
The movie could be compared to an under-financed Arnold Schwarzenegger film. The rock goes throwing his weight around and acting like the “big man on campus”. Not to make the whole movie sound bad, some of the special effects were awesome. Also the writer of the script had a great idea. There aren’t very many movies that have the same plot line. Over all I would give the movie 7 out of 10 stars.