IMDb plot summary: Based on Disneyland's theme park ride where a small riverboat takes a group of travelers through a jungle filled with dangerous animals and reptiles but with a supernatural element.
Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra. Starring Dwayne Johnson, Emily Blunt, Edgar Ramirez, and Jack Whitehall.
This movie very much wants to be a more diverse version of Indiana Jones for a younger generation, but it does fall right into the same trap Indy does in its narrative: it does in fact buy into the idea that this random white person is entitled to go into indigenous people’s sacred lands to take their sacred items for their own purposes. Somehow that never actually gets addressed in this movie, and it makes the rest of its attempts to be progressive seem very performative. And it’s not all that great to begin with. The special effects here are awkward-looking, giving the whole thing an obviously digital sheen that doesn’t work for me. The chemistry between the two charismatic lead actors feels very forced, and the villain is completely uninteresting and inconsequential. This is just unremarkable on every level.
How it entered my Flickchart:
Jungle Cruise < Hustle & Flow
Jungle Cruise < The Shaggy Dog (1959)
Jungle Cruise > Ray
Jungle Cruise > Lady in the Water
Jungle Cruise > Wuthering Heights
Jungle Cruise > As Good As It Gets
Jungle Cruise < Planet 51
Jungle Cruise > Three Kings
Jungle Cruise > Double, Double, Toil and Trouble
Jungle Cruise > Doc Hollywood
Jungle Cruise > Silverado
Jungle Cruise > Waiting...
Final spot: #2622 out of 3458, or 24%.
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