The Rundown

Pros: Christopher Walker, some of the action
Cons: the dialogue, the acting, the monkey scenes, the final fight scenes

Not every movie can be great, and not every movie can star the best actors in Hollywood. With that in mind, there is class of movies that hit the big screen that have to be critiqued on their own ground. Its been a long time since action movies were in ...

Pros: funny moments, solid action, good mix of characters
Cons: still a cliche, but so what?

I borrowed The Rundown on a total random whim. I usually do not watch the standard B-movie action flicks anymore, as after Indiana Jones, I’ve felt most of the originality in the genre has long gone. But with Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Seann William ...

Pros: It's The Rock's show
Cons: Slow beginning

The Rundown is the new vehicle that is supposed to make Dwayne Johnson, better known as The Rock, a bonafide movie star. The movie was originally known as Helldorado, changed to Welcome To The Jungle, changed back to Helldorado ...

Pros: action, humor, Christopher Walken
Cons: lacks story depth

Thank Hollywood for "The Rundown," because for a second there I almost though I'd lost all interest in modern action movies. From the opening scene when Arnold Schwarzenegger walks by and sardonically tells The Rock to "have a good time," to Christopher ...

Pros: The Rock and Sean William Scott are the best duo since Murphy/Nolte.
Cons: It had to end sometime.

Action movies are supposed to be just that, movies full of action. So what do you call a movie that has more action than Terminator 3, XXX, and The Fast and the Furious put together? You call it The Rundown! Hollywood’s newest and hottest action hero ...

Pros: Action, scenery, humor
Cons: Not much interaction between the characters, feels like an Indiana Jones/Romancing the Stone wannabee

Enjoyable but immediately forgettable, THE RUNDOWN is like a macho remake of ROMANCING THE STONE, the 1984 hit with Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas. Directed by Chicago Hope actor, Peter Berg, THE RUNDOWN follows Beck (The Rock), a disgruntled bounty ...

Pros: Read the review
Cons: Read the review

Face it. Dwayne Johnson aka "The Rock" will never be a good actor. Just as Chingy can never become a good rapper, Dwayne's destiny seem to be stuck in between being a wrestler and a football player. Maybe in the wrestling world does the whole ...

Pros: The Rock has gotten so much better at acting since Scorpion King.
Cons: Nothing much to complain about.

I know I have a penchant for summarizing a plot in it’s entirety, but for my review of “The Rundown” I would much rather talk about it from a different angle. Let it be known, if “Freddy vs. Jason” was the best movie of the summer, th ...

Pros: Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Christopher Walken, action sequences, music, setting
Cons: time length, took awhile for comedy to start

Do you smeeeeeelll what the Rock is cooking? Well The Rock has been cooking up a whole load of goodies ever since his less then stellar debut on the WWF circuit. Not only has his popularity in the wrestling ring improved greatly from the days of “Rocky Su ...

Pros: The Rock, when he's not doing wrestling moves
Cons: Nearly everything else in the movie

It's bad for The Rundown that it's being released as the same time as the latest series of TV's "Survivor," because "Survivor" comes off as the more entertaining entry. Strangely enough, The Rundown has many of the same come-ons as "Survi ...

Pros: Some good action, Walken is great.
Cons: Some dialogue is stupid, final scene could have been better

Well The Rock is in a new disney movie, "the game plan" that I've seen previews for. If you've seen any previews of it, you know what I mean when I say it's a story that's been told more than a few times, and by a few times i mean a million times. ...

Pros: The action and the comedy.
Cons: nothing.

This review gives away most of the plot so read at your own risk. The Rundown stars The Rock, Seann William Scott, Christopher Walken, Rosario Dawson and Ewan Bremner. I thought the movie was good. The opening scene started out with the Rock, Beck is ...

Pros: The Rock is the new action hero, some good laughs, action looks good.
Cons: Quite some clichés, the last act is a little disappointing...

Now that Sylvester Stallone has gotten older, Jean Claude van Damme and Stephen Seagal dropped to the direct to video releases, and Arnie turned into a gouvernor it´s time for a new action hero. It looks like Hollywood finally found him; The Rock. Former ...

Pros: The Rock can act, Christopher Walken is cool, fun, fun, fun
Cons: Not an Oscar contender, requires the brain to be switched off at times

"Do ya smell what da Rock is cooking?". I looove the over-the-top antics of The Rock (I feel compelled to put a (tm) after the name, just in case you start confusing it with like, a movie starring Sean Connery and Nicholas Cage or maybe a stone at the bot ...

Pros: Rock kicks some serious butt. Walken is great! Action packed film that actually entertains.
Cons: Few silly scenes. So much action you may become numb by the end.

There were some red flags that went up when I saw the previews for this film. The Rock (a.k.a. Dwayne Johnson) who has only been in a couple mediocre films (The Mummy Returns and Scorpion King). I did not like either of those films. Seann William Scott ha ...