Jungle
A group of friends join a guide for a trek into the Bolivian jungle, searching for an Indian village. The men soon realize that the jungle is a difficult place to be.
15 August 1956, Bielsko-Biala, Slaskie, Poland
11 December 1987, Australia
8 September 1962, Dessau, German Democratic Republic [now Saxony-Anhalt, Federal Republic of Germany]
October 20, 2017
...an effective, inspiring bit of endurance cinema. And it has Radcliffe!
October 19, 2017
Jungle attempts to dig into the inner life of its protagonist ... It doesn't succeed...
October 17, 2017
Radcliffe convincingly portrays a man slowly stripped to his barest self, driven along by little more than a primal urge to survive.
October 19, 2017
It's one of [Radcliffe's] best performances - strong enough to help the film ride out its considerable bumps ...
August 09, 2017
This is a survival thriller without much in the way of you-know-what, and seems destined to land in the Amazonian bog into which films that satisfy neither grindhouse nor art house are sucked.
October 19, 2017
Despite Mr. Radcliffe's all-too-obvious dedication (his increasingly emaciated body, astonishingly, was not digitally enhanced), he can't rescue a screenplay (by Justin Monjo) that cares more about the condition of his flesh than the contents of his head.
October 20, 2017
The director of 'Wolf Creek' doesn't need to goose reality to grab us by the collar. Jungle proves it.
August 23, 2017
McLean has picked an opportune moment to demonstrate his skills outside the bloodiest horror wheelhouse. Job done.
October 20, 2017
Hallucinations and fantasy sequences tend towards the tacky in a film that fails to make the most of an incredible journey.
October 19, 2017
Strong performances all around keep the story from feeling like an exploitation shocker.
October 19, 2017
Despite the considerable physicality of the movie, with its impressive cinematography and Radcliffe's believable, all-in disintegration, it's more earthbound slog than psychological deep-dive.
October 19, 2017
... feels more like a sequence of box-ticking perils than a genuine survival story, and the female characters (sexy traveller, sexy indigenous woman) are painfully two-dimensional.
