Now comes "The Rundown", another buddy-action comedy that has the same flavor as the gems of the genre but also seems so new. The film opens with an introduction to "bounty-hunter" Beck (Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson) who works for a crime lord named Walker (William Lucking). Walker offers Beck a job that will settle Beck's debt to the kingpin. The job is to journey into the Amazon to retrieve his morally corrupt son, Travis (Seann William Scott). Beck blindly accepts and before he knows it he is squaring off against a tyrant (Christopher Walken), fighting with the local rebels, participating in a stampede, eating some hallucinogenic fruit, and trying to fend off a horny monkey.

Surprisingly, "The Rundown" is a fresh, hilarious, and a fun-filled journey back into the buddy-action comedy. The Rock is charismatic and makes such a great action hero. His fight scenes are flawless and filled with a lot of energy. Johnson makes such a great stoic hero to William Scott's doofus.

What I did like about the relationship between Scott and Johnson was their utter dislike for each other. It was very reminiscent of "48 hrs", especially when Scott's doofus was always trying to pick a fight with the huge Johnson. I got so many flashbacks of Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte slugging it out in the classic 80's comedy.

On the flip-side, I also enjoyed seeing that Scott's character was also more than just a doofus. When the chips were down and he was in his element, Scott really delivers and thee screenwriter wasn't scared to give this character more than just a two-dimensional persona like Scott is used to playing.

I liked Walken's performance as the villain Hatcher but the small flaw in his performance is that we actually started to like the guy because his evil seems so utterly tongue-in-cheek. The villains in other films of this genre were always so serious, vicious and ruthless and Walken wasn't any of those.

I also really enjoyed the film's script which found ways to delight me once more with this genre. The mixture and almost homage of Indiana Jones, "48 hrs" and even "Red Heat" was such a great start to bringing back the genre. I also liked how the film was able to include out-of-this-world comedic moments like the horny monkey and the fruit without ruining an ounce of the tone in the film. There was so much right going on here.