2003 · adventure · action · comedy
The Rundown
Directed by Peter Berg1h 44m2003
When Travis, the mouthy son of a criminal, disappears in the Amazon in search of a treasured artifact, his father sends in Beck, who becomes Travis's rival for the affections of Mariana, a mysterious Brazilian woman. With his steely disposition, Beck is a man of few words -- but it takes him all the discipline he can muster to work with Travis to nab a tyrant who's after the same treasure.
Our read: The Rundown (2003) reads as a neutral, breathless, grounded adventure · action · comedy entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, extreme adventure / action, grounded in texture. Redemptive, epic, tender.
- kinetic
- intense
- tender
- epic-stakes
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