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Director Werner Herzog returns to the exotic locales and obsessive themes of previous works in his Amazon masterpiece FITZCARRALDO. Klaus Kinski gives a terrifying and determined portrayal of mad genius Fitzcarraldo whose twin goals of making a fortune off the Amazon rubber trade and bringing an opera house to the jungle give the film its crushing centerpiece--the maniacal leader's Sisyphean efforts at hauling a gigantic steamship over a mountain bank. The single-minded and wickedly energetic Fitzcarraldo moves mountains and a boat with his will and along the way acts out a stunning and emotional battle between man and nature as in the similarly themed HerzogKinski collaboration AGUIRRE THE WRATH OF GOD. Herzog's razor-sharp attention to the minutiae of both Fitzcarraldo's madness and the jungle's corresponding apathy and enormity makes the film a breathtaking metaphor for civilization's impact on the natural world. The documentary style of the film the cast and crew actually hauled the boat over the mountain

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The Rock aka Duane Johnson firmly establishes himself as a major Hollywood force in THE RUNDOWN an engaging action-comedy directed by Peter Berg. JohnsonRock plays Beck a retriever-for-hire who is sent on one final mission before he can retire and realize his dream of opening up a restaurant. Trading in the cement streets of Los Angeles for the jungles of the Amazon Beck begins his quest to locate his boss' son Travis Seann William Scott. When he walks into the establishment of the beautiful Mariana Rosario Dawson he does just that. But before he can drag Travis back to the airstrip and deliver him to his father the evil Hatcher Christopher Walken arrives and reminds Beck that this is his jurisdiction. Apparently Travis is incredibly close to locating a rare relic and until that happens Hatcher isn't letting Travis out of his sight. Of course Beck uses his talent for kicking butt to escape with Travis but after their jeep tumbles off a mountain they find themselves trapped in the jungle with Hatcher hot on th

Despite his origins as a low-budget filmmaker with a taste for the unsavory side of life Peter Jackson has turned into an "event" filmmaker--someone who can conjure up a movie on a scale unlike anything we've seen before. KING KONG is his sprawling epic remake of Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack's 1933 movie of the same name and it is as big as the gorilla that runs riot through Jackson's rendering of Depression-era New York. Keeping the simple yet effective plot intact--a film crew travels to the mysterious Skull Island picks up Kong and brings him back to New York City--Jackson expands on this basic premise by drawing on the jaw-dropping talents of his special effects team to satisfy his thirst for the grand spectacle. The movie posits Naomi Watts as Ann Darrow the starry-eyed blonde beauty whom Kong falls for; Jack Black as Carl Denham a low-rent Orson Welles look-alike who drags the crew to the island to make his movie; and Adrian Brody as Jack Driscoll a hack playwright who battles Kong both phy

An African mountain gorilla who's been taught sign language by a young primatologist is returned to the jungles of the Congo in this adaptation of Michael Crichton's 1980 sci-fi adventure novel. During their journey they cross paths with greedy corporate scavengers searching for a hidden cache of diamonds.

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Despite the critical drubbing and box-office failure of King Solomon's Mines (1985), Cannon Films released this sequel two years later, again featuring Richard Chamberlain as adventurer Allan Quatermain and a pre-Basic Instinct Sharon Stone; the result is marginally better than its predecessor, and may please "bad film" fans. This time around, Quatermain is seeking his brother (Martin Rabbett), who has disappeared while on an expedition to locate a legendary white tribe in Africa. Quatermain's search leads him to the title city, which is controlled by evil Henry Silva (overacting with relish). Director Gary Nelson and returning writer Gene Quintano achieve a few more half-hearted laughs here than in its predecessor, and the cast, which includes James Earl Jones and Cassandra "Elvira" Peterson, do their best with the material, but this can't hold a candle to the 1937 and 1950 film versions of King Solomon's Mines. --Paul Gaita

The Rock aka Duane Johnson firmly establishes himself as a major Hollywood force in THE RUNDOWN an engaging action-comedy directed by Peter Berg. JohnsonRock plays Beck a retriever-for-hire who is sent on one final mission before he can retire and realize his dream of opening up a restaurant. Trading in the cement streets of Los Angeles for the jungles of the Amazon Beck begins his quest to locate his boss' son Travis Seann William Scott. When he walks into the establishment of the beautiful Mariana Rosario Dawson he does just that. But before he can drag Travis back to the airstrip and deliver him to his father the evil Hatcher Christopher Walken arrives and reminds Beck that this is his jurisdiction. Apparently Travis is incredibly close to locating a rare relic and until that happens Hatcher isn't letting Travis out of his sight. Of course Beck uses his talent for kicking butt to escape with Travis but after their jeep tumbles off a mountain they find themselves trapped in the jungle with Hatcher hot on th