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Studio: Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group
Studio: Universal Pictures
Release Date: Sep 26, 2003
Running Time: 104 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
synopsis
In the always rough, have-to-be tough urban jungle of Los Angeles, there are men like Beck...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. At the center of his current trouble is a wise-ass named Travis, 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, a no-nonsense local who holds the answers to some of the jungle's hidden mysteries, and Hatcher, an unhinged despot who has turned the jungle and its inhabitants into his own fortune-making, gold-mining empire. The rundown: 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.
cast + crew
Director
Beck
Jimmy Travis
Mariana
Hatcher
Declan
Harvey
Walker
Manito
Swenson
Naylor
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Producer
Producer
Executive Producer
Executive Producer
Associate Producer
reviews
September 25, 2003
Option A: You can laugh off the Rock as an actor and any action flick that teams him with Seann William Scott. The Rock and Stiffler -- jeez. Option B: You can see the movie and have fun watching director Peter Berg energize a plot about a bounty hunter (the Rock) chasing his prey (Scott) in the Amazon. The Rock has a flair for action and comedy; he's a real movie star. PETER TRAVERS
(September 25, 2003)
Beck (The Rock) is a ''retrieval expert,'' someone who is paid to collect debts from deadbeats who don't pay up what they owe. Thanks in part to his physical prowess, he is great at what he does, but inside his hard-hitting physique is an aspiring chef: Beck occupies his time on stakeouts listening to Emeril, jotting down recipes and noting pertinent information about the characteristics of porcini mushrooms. He wants to get out of his present line of work and open a restaurant, but needs to (A)
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