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The Rundown (2003) -- A tough aspiring chef is hired to bring home a mobster's son from the Amazon but becomes involved in the fight against an oppressive town operator and the search for a legendary treasure.
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Overview

User Rating:
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Director:
Writers (WGA):
R.J. Stewart (story)
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Release Date:
26 September 2003 (USA) more
Tagline:
cut to the chase september 26 more
Plot:
A tough aspiring chef is hired to bring home a mobster's son from the Amazon but becomes involved in the fight against an oppressive town operator and the search for a legendary treasure. full summary | full synopsis
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Awards:
2 wins & 3 nominations more
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(46 articles)
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it was a fun movie more (243 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Dwayne Johnson ... Beck (as The Rock)

Seann William Scott ... Travis

Rosario Dawson ... Mariana

Christopher Walken ... Hatcher

Ewen Bremner ... Declan

Jon Gries ... Harvey
William Lucking ... Walker
Ernie Reyes Jr. ... Manito
Stuart F. Wilson ... Swenson

Dennis Keiffer ... Naylor

Garrett Warren ... Henshaw

Toby Holguin ... Head Indian Tracker
Paul S. Power ... Martin (as Paul Power)

Stephen Bishop ... Knappmiller
Chuck Norman ... Mullaire
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Welcome to the Jungle (Australia) (UK) (USA) (working title)
Call of the Wild (USA) (working title)
Helldorado (USA) (working title)
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MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for adventure violence and some crude dialogue.
Runtime:
104 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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Certification:
Switzerland:16 (canton of Zurich) | Venezuela:PG-13 | India:U | Malaysia:18SG | Iceland:14 | South Korea:15 | France:U | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Brazil:12 | Canada:14A (Alberta/British Columbia) | Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) (original rating) | Canada:G (Quebec) | Canada:PG (Manitoba/Ontario) | Canada:PG (Nova Scotia) (re-rating on appeal) | Finland:K-15 | Germany:16 (nf) | Italy:T | Netherlands:12 | Norway:15 | Philippines:PG-13 | Singapore:PG | Spain:13 | Sweden:11 | Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) | Switzerland:14 (canton of the Grisons) | UK:12A (edited for re-rating) | UK:15 (original rating) | USA:PG-13 (certificate #40155)
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At the end of the film, Jon Gries' character is wearing a scorpion necklace. It's is the same one that Memnon wears in The Scorpion King (2002). more
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Continuity: When Beck, Travis, and Mariana are riding in the boat and she attempts to shoot him, there is a huge patch of algae on Travis's left. The next time we see that side of the boat it is gone. more
Quotes:
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Emeril Lagasse (on radio): I just love mushrooms. One of my favorites, or as I call it, "the king of mushrooms," is the porcini. Now stop right there. Don't be alarmed. There's a lot of confusion in this country between porcini, the Italian name, and cèpes, which is the French name. They're fat and they're earthy. Now the porcini is most often seen dried here in this country. And they would always be labeled "dried porcinis," not "dried cèpes." OK? They are very, very, very flavorful.
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References Rocky III (1982) more
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Freedom Band more

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11 out of 15 people found the following comment useful.
it was a fun movie, 6 October 2003
Author: gerald Booth (chuckrules@juno.com) from alexandria, VA

The Rock's newest one this weekend and found The Rundown to be quite entertaining. Sure, the plot is nothing to sneeze at but casting Christopher Walkin as the lead villain was wonderful. He has a very unique way of playing with the dialogue to make it quite funny. Seann William Scott is pretty darn hysterical and plays the second banana well. The impressive find is Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's performance. The guy is getting better and better. I found his first one, The Scorpion King, to be fun but not worth collecting. This one might have to be bought though. His years of using a script and improvising in front of a multi-thousand seat auditorium has translated well to the screen and he has a sense of timing and ease in front of the cameras that has been hard won. He obviously can handle the action aspects of the movie too but (as with most action stars) I hear he wants to stretch his wings and perform other stuff. That has the potential to be fine down the line but lets see how he continues with the Action/Comedies first. Should be interesting to see how they do the Walking Tall remake. The original one was a pretty powerful movie with some seriously tense sequences.

Hopefully it won't be changed to much. Anyway, gonna have to give this one 3/4

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