WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE (UK)
aka THE RUNDOWN (USA)
Year: 2003
USA: Universal Pictures
UK: Columbia Tristar Films (UK)
Cast: The Rock, Seann William Scott, Rosario Dawson, Christopher Walken, Ewen Bremner, Jon Gries, William Lucking, Ernie Reyes Jr, Stuart F Wilson, Stuart Wilson, Dennis Keiffer, Garrett Warren, Toby Holguin, Paul Power, Stephen Bishop, Chuck Norman, Jamal Duff, John Duff, Jeff Chase, Jackson Price, Anthony Diaz-Perez , Todd Stashwick, Marcio Moraes, Tony Lima, James K Miranda, David Prak, Ron Cummings, Bruno Serrano, Donald R Jankiewicz, Patrick A. Jankiewicz, Filipe Teixeira, Alberto Teixeira, Adriano Paulo, Reginaldo Santana, Mark Joy
Director: Peter Berg
Country: USA
UK: 102 mins
USA Rated: PG-13 for adventure violence and some crude dialogue
UK Certificate: 12A contains moderate action violence. (Abridged version of work previously known as THE RUNDOWN for which cuts to scenes of violence were made in order to accommodate requested 12A category)
USA Release Date: 26 September 2003
UK Release Date: 26 March 2004
Synopsis
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. This one just keeps getting more and more tangled, like the Amazon jungle he's been sent to in WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE (UK) aka THE RUNDOWN (USA).
At the center of his current trouble is a wise-ass named Travis (Seann William 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 (Christopher Walken), an unhinged despot who has turned the jungle and its inhabitants into his own fortune-making, gold-mining empire.
WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE: Beck is after a guy...who's after a fortune...and now everybody's after them. So 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.
Peter Berg (VERY BAD THINGS, CHICAGO HOPE TV series and WONDERLAND) directs WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE, a comic action-adventure with exotic locations and hard-hitting, exquisitely crafted fight sequences choreographed by Hong Kong master Andy Cheng.
