The token girl is the young Afro-Cuban-Indian-Irish-Puerto Rican actress Rosario Dawson-comely bartender by day, respected rebel leader by night. Kurtz speeches and sometimes, mid-tirade, betrays an “easy payday” smirk. Walken does not follow suit he overdelivers a lot of Col.
Johnny Depp proved in this summer’s Pirates of the Caribbean that a commercial blockbuster can provide a little breathing room for an actor to deliver an inspired, freewheeling performance. Standing in his way is Hatcher (Christopher Walken), an evil military-type presiding over a gold mine where Indians dig with their hands and are mercilessly exploited by his henchmen. His comic foil is Seann William Scott, who plays Travis, a wisecracking graduate student (a rare breed) searching for a precious golden artifact. The Rock’s acting is perhaps best described as facially located: He does a lot of looking to the right and to the left, and “The People’s Eyebrow,” as he once deemed it, gets quite a workout. Moments like the one in Conan the Barbarian (1982), when a Mongol general asks Arnold, “What is best in life?” and he answers, “To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of the women,” were ineffably weird and unforgettable. And his Austrian accent provided built-in comic relief. In his prime, Arnold also didn’t require a puny thing like character development he was impossible not to watch. The Rock doesn’t have the articulated body that made Arnold, for a brief muscular moment, the Eighth Wonder of the World.
The head-knocking begins immediately in a nightclub, and that’s where the Austrian Oak himself, Arnold Schwarzenegger, walks by our hero in a dark corridor and tells him to “Have fun!” This is a nice passing-of-the-torch moment, but it also invites an unenviable comparison. He’s Beck, a bounty hunter who doesn’t like to use guns, for some unexplained reason. The first sign that the role the Rock plays in The Rundown will be a departure is his chest, which is fully covered by a shirt.
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