In Los Angeles, the "retrieval expert" Beck (The Rock) is assigned by his boss Billy, a powerful mobster, to bring his son Travis (Seann William Scott) back from Amazonas. Beck wants to get free from Billy, and buy and be a chef of an Italian restaurant. Once in the Brazilian jungle, Beck faces Hatcher (Christopher Walken),a powerful landlord of a city who explores the locals in the extraction of gold, and a group of rebels, leaded by Mariana (Rosaria Dawson),to retrieve Travis, who found a priceless treasure called "O Gato do Diabo" (which means "The Cat of the Devil"). "Welcome to the Jungle" is a funny and full of action entertainment. There are excellent action scenes and the chemistry between The Rock and Seann William Scott works perfectly. The DVD has many extras, most of them very interesting. In accordance with the interview with Peter Berg in the DVD, he had the intention of filming in Brazil, but unfortunately he was robbed and threatened in the jungle, so he decided to make the movie in Hawaii. Maybe because of this reason, there is a total lack of accuracy in many parts of the story. For example, the unique dialog in Portuguese is when Beck and Travis are captured by the rebels. However, the accent is not from Brazil. The other dialogs are in Spanish. Nuts, usually consumed in Christmas, are imported and very expensive, and they are not common in Brazil. Manito (small brother in Spanish, I guess) is not a Brazilian name or nickname (it would be "Maninho"). The biotype of the "Brazilian" rebels is ridiculous. Mariana makes a reference of the a wage of US$ 0,65 per hour as a reference to the exploitation of Hatcher to the locals. However, the minimum wage in Brazil is less than US$ 100,00 per month. Therefore, US$ 0,65 per hour would be much more than the minimum wage in Brazil, specially in a poor and isolated region like that one. There are no rebels in Brazilian jungles, only in Colombia. The IBAMA (Brazilian Environmental Agency) would never allow that sort of exploration without an special authorization, including a study of the impact of the environment. There also some correct references, like our Flag, the reference to Flamengo, the most popular soccer team of Brazil, the advertisements of beer etc., and the names in Portuguese of the buildings. My vote is seven.

Title (Brazil): "Bem Vindo a Selva" ("Welcome to the Jungle")

Beck (Dwayne Johnson) is a bounty hunter and debt collector who hates guns. He wants out of the business but Billy Walker has one last job for him and he gets his restaurant. He needs to retrieve Billy's son Travis (Seann William Scott) from the Amazonian mining town El Dorado. Declan (Ewen Bremner) is the bush pilot. Mr. Hatcher (Christopher Walken) runs the hellish mine worked by desperate locals. He allows Beck to take Travis for $10k but then reneges. He wants the golden artifact "El Gato do Diabo" which Travis has tracked down. The local barmaid Mariana (Rosario Dawson) is also the local resistance leader.

There is great jungle action and The Rock has some fun fight action. The jungle fight with the rebels is both thrilling and hilarious. Walken is a fun wacky villain. Seann William Scott and The Rock have great combative comedic chemistry. They're both lots of fun and together they are hilarious. I find myself laughing a lot. The jokes do run out but the CGI action only gets crazier.

The Rundown or Welcome to The Jungle it's a typical modern adventure/action movie. Entire movie's idea wasn't too bad, though it contains nothing original but its implementation became only a disappointment because the story was poor written and awfully predictable all the way. Acting in the movie was pretty bad even for an action movie and about the directing I can say only the same. On the other hand the movie was well shot with carefully selected good scenery that brought reasonable exotic to the audience. Some jokes were really funny, although entire humor was as usual vulgar and silly Fight scenes look very typical for The Rock and they were quite different during the movie. While some of such action sequences were not bad a all most of them look only ridiculous and unreal. Overall The Rundown is nothing more than a silly action/adventure movie. It has some entertainment value but due to all its flaws and weak parts its worth seeing only for hard action fans or for fans of the Rock

4,7 out of 10. Sorry for my bad English.