Don't listen to the naysayers that want to over analyze this next to the likes of some Fellini film or or Citizen Kane.
This movie rocks and probably will establish Dwayne Johnson (aka "The Rock") solidly as the next action star. Watch out for those bad action movie plots Dwayne...they're a killer.
The story is just a fun action romp until it gets a little too serious with the rebel versus Demon Christopher Walken subplot, but director Peter Berg, better known as an actor, should have no problem garnering monies for future projects after this.
Smartly done, the effects are solid, the locations real and very lush in the Amazon jungle and the acting, regardless of what anyone going after the Rock's past history as an entertainer might say, is really quite solid.
The bottom line is this...look, if you can just for a moment try to suspend your disbelief and go with the flow, this movie will be a lot of fun for you and you will enjoy every second of it like many viewers (myself included) have. On the other hand, if you want to show your knowledge of the amount of hard earned cash you and your parents spent on that film school education that still has you selling Cutco knives door to door, analyzing every little flaw and plot point as if every film should be looked at as if through the eyes of Sergei Eisenstein and acting, evaluated on the merits of a particular method...bore yourself somewhere else and spend the evening rewinding "A Woman Under the Influence" and writing your Memoirs...
Otherwise, chill, enjoy, and Rock on!
This movie rocks and probably will establish Dwayne Johnson (aka "The Rock") solidly as the next action star. Watch out for those bad action movie plots Dwayne...they're a killer.
The story is just a fun action romp until it gets a little too serious with the rebel versus Demon Christopher Walken subplot, but director Peter Berg, better known as an actor, should have no problem garnering monies for future projects after this.
Smartly done, the effects are solid, the locations real and very lush in the Amazon jungle and the acting, regardless of what anyone going after the Rock's past history as an entertainer might say, is really quite solid.
The bottom line is this...look, if you can just for a moment try to suspend your disbelief and go with the flow, this movie will be a lot of fun for you and you will enjoy every second of it like many viewers (myself included) have. On the other hand, if you want to show your knowledge of the amount of hard earned cash you and your parents spent on that film school education that still has you selling Cutco knives door to door, analyzing every little flaw and plot point as if every film should be looked at as if through the eyes of Sergei Eisenstein and acting, evaluated on the merits of a particular method...bore yourself somewhere else and spend the evening rewinding "A Woman Under the Influence" and writing your Memoirs...
Otherwise, chill, enjoy, and Rock on!