Welcome To The Jungle (UK)

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Cut to the chase september 26
Certificate: 15
Running Time: 100 mins
Retail Price: £19.99
Release Date:
Content Type: Movie

Synopsis:
Welcome To The Jungle is a contemporary tale about a bounty hunter named Beck (The Rock) who travels to the Amazon jungle to settle a debt by retrieving the son (Seann William Scott) of a wealthy underworld kingpin who has gone treasure hunting. However, the bounty hunter ends up joining forces with his target as the two attempt to beat the head of a local gold mining corporation (Christopher Walken) to the treasure. To further complicate matters, they both fall for a local guide named Carmen (Rosario Dawson).

Special Features:
Commentary by The Rock and director Peter Berg. Producer commentary. Deleted scenes montage. `Rumble In the Jungle` featurette. `The Amazon` featurette. `Hawaii Style` featurette. `Appetite for Destruction` featurette. `A Rockumentary` featurette. `Running Down the Town` featurette. `Walken`s World` featurette. Theatrical trailer. Easter eggs.

Video Tracks:
Widescreen Anamorphic 2.35:1

Audio Tracks:
Dolby Digital 5.1 English
Dolby Digital 5.1 Italian
Dolby Digital 5.1 Spanish

Subtitle Tracks:
Italian
English
Spanish
CC: English
Portuguese
Dutch

Directed By:
Peter Berg

Written By:
James Vanderbilt
R.J. Stewart

Starring:
Ewen Bremner
Christopher Walken
Rosario Dawson
Seann William Scott
The Rock

Casting By:
Lynn Kressel

Soundtrack By:
Harry Gregson-Williams
Toby Chu
Johnny Cash

Director of Photography:
Tobias A. Schliessler

Editor:
Richard Pearson

Costume Designer:
Louise Mingenbach

Production Designer:
Tom Duffield

Producer:
Kevin Misher
Karen Glasser
Marc Abraham

Executive Producer:
Vince McMahon
Ric Kidney
John Corry
Chris Chesser
Alan Beattie

Distributor:
Columbia / Tristar

Your Opinions and Comments

9 / 10

Content : Nothing really new here, just another action movie like any other really....apart from this one stars WWE Wrestling star The Rock. Beck ( The Rock ) is sent to a small town in the jungle to bring back Travis ( Seann William Scott ) who is the son of Becks Boss. The town is run by Hatcher ( Christopher Walken ) who runs the local Gold Mine and pretty much owns the town, and will not let Beck take travis home because he wants Travis to lead him to some lost treasure. So when Hatcher`s men try to take Travis it leads to lots of fighting. Thats the basic story, as i said nothing new, but what makes it worth watching is The Rock. He is perfect for the role and he brings something fresh to the part. Walken and Scott as always do a fine job also.

As far as Action/Comedy Movies go, while adding nothing new, its good fun to watch and thats what this movie is all about.

Video : 2.35:1 Anamorphic widescreen Picture quality is very good, not the best i`ve seen but with the amount of extras on the disk it aint bad at all.

Audio : Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack sounds great. It delivers clean dialogue and kicks in with plenty of bass and the surround speaker get a pretty good workout during the more explosive scenes. No dts though which is a shame.

Extras : 2 audio commentaries - One with The Rock and Director and the other is from the Producers, `Rumble In The Jungle` featurette (11 mins) `The Amazon, Hawaii Style` featurette (5 mins) `Appetite For Destruction` featurette (8 mins) `The Rundown Uncensored: A Rock-umentary` featurette (6 mins) `Running Down The Town` featurette (4 mins) `Walken`s World` featurette (6 mins) Deleted scenes (14 mins) 6 theatrical trailers (12 mins)

Overall : Great movie with a great set of extras on a great DVD

posted by Jackass on 31/7/2004 17:28