Cinema review: A bungle in the jungle (From Barry And District News)

Cinema review: A bungle in the jungle

Hard-man bounty hunter Beck (Johnson) is unusual - he hates guns. He also carries a little black book that turns out not to be a list of his next assassinations, but of ingredients and recipes he fancies.

His job title is retrieval expert and his latest assignment is to collect a $50,000 gambling debt from NFL quarterback (Stephen Bishop) for his tycoon boss Walker (William Lucking).

Beck is fed up with the job and dreams of running a restaurant. With debts of his own he agrees to do one last task for Walker, who wants him to retrieve his long lost Stanford dropout son Travis (Seann William Scott) from South America. Landing in Brazil in a very dodgy plane Beck finds Travis easily enough, but getting him home is another matter.

Travis is looking for a secret treasure in the shape of a native idol that is worth millions. But evil slave master Hatcher (Christopher Walken) is equally determined to bag it, because it will free the Indians from being duty bound to work in his mines.

Once Beck and Travis get together they end up in the jungle and encounter all sorts of dramas, bickering and wisecracking their way to an inevitable conclusion.

If you are looking for deep and meaningful this is not for you but mindless action entertainment doesn't get much better than this.

7/10