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Review:
 Action comedies
are hard to do. The choreography has to be perfect and the jokes
have to be just right. The slightest misstep can turn a potential
blockbuster into a collossul dog. This doesn’t do that, and the
final action flick of the summer is in fact the best.
Beck(The Rock) enters a disco. Here he bumps into Arnold
Swartzenegger, who immediately leaves. This final cameo of his
career could be seen as a passing of the torch….
Or not.
But what is certain is that the fight scene that follows
between Beck and the LA Rams (?) defense is brilliant. All this is
thanks to the choreography of Andy Cheng, who for many years
worked with Jackie Chang in some of his best stuff.
Add to this a hilarious script by Stewart and James Vanderbilt,
and you’ve got magic. Who’da thunk?
Anyway…Beck’s next mission is to go to Brazil and pick up his
boss’s nare’do’well son Travis(Seann William Scott), who fancies
himself the reincarnation of Indiana Jones, and has an angry
cuckolded husband after him to prove it.
What Travis is looking for is an ancient Amazonian artifact called
"El Gato" and is worth zillions on the black market.
Unfortunately, the place where it’s supposed to be is owned by
Hatcher( Christopher Walken) the evil minor who has enslaved the
Natives and threatens to destroy the rainforest, or something.
Fortunately, when Travis knocks Beck’s car down the revine,
tumbling them both into an impenetrable valley, they discover
that, soon after Beck fights with a particularly nasty rebel(Ernie
Reyes Jr.), Mariana( Rosario Dawson), Travis’s barmaid cutie, is
actually leader of the rebels!
The three of them set of to find "el Gato," There’s a candiru
joke. I’ve been waiting for one of those all my life. What’s a
candiru? See the movie.
Besides the candiru joke, Hatcher tries to explain the tooth
fairy. This is one of Walken’s best scenes EVER. You HAVE see
this. Especially if you like action.
Eric Lurio
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