gareth242000 Review of Welcome to the Jungle

Welcome to the Jungle (2007 Video)

Stop the world, i wanna get off!

[2/10 · 24 January 2010]

This film was not the worst i have ever seen, but any worse and it would have been a real test to make it through the entire movie. Although the director Jonathan Hensleigh is by no means one of my favourite directors i find it hard to believe he wrote die hard with a vengeance and jumanji for example, both action movies that although he didn't direct were full of exciting and very creative ideas. What happened! The characters in this film were so easily dislikable with their endless bickering and one-up-man-ship that their downfall couldn't come fast enough for me. If they portrayed any character i would have been happy to sit for longer and wait for it to appear, but it was like the script was produced by a teenager with an attitude problem. All the main characters were obnoxious and self centred. You may argue that this was to an extent, partly at least the point of the film? like cannibal holocaust and others in same elk which portrayed the white people from privileged backgrounds were actually more sinister and barbaric than the characters who ate humans in the jungle, maybe the idea was that these the main charters were more hateful than the cannibals? Either way, i would argue you could have dealt with that potential idea far quicker and stopped wasting time. I don't know, just not my thing and like other have mentioned it obviously tried to live up to the old classic cannibal films and failed almost before it had started.