Monday, May 13, 2019

THE RUNDOWN

I can't believe Roger Ebert gave this 3.5/4.

My main problem is with some of the characters. Duane "The Rock" Johnson doesn't know how to portray Beck, and I think a large part of that is Beck isn't well-defined. He's a fairly rough guy, but he also wants to open a restaurant and retire from his current job.

Travis is too annoying, even bordering on one-dimensional at times, to really get into.

Ewan Bremner as airplane pilot Declan speaks in a vernacular which is unintelligible most of the time (and you're reading the blog of a man who loves "Father Ted", Roddy Doyle books and listening to RTE while having his lunch sometimes) and it also seems a large part of his character was modelled on a whimpy version of the Boondock Saints.

The plot, though kind of cliche and predictable, was decent enough I could have got into it more, but these three characters prevented that.

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