Welcome to the Jungle

2007 "Don’t get eaten"
4.3| 1h23m| en
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Two young couples head into the New Guinea wilderness in an effort to find Michael Rockefeller, the heir to the Rockefeller fortune who disappeared in 1961.

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Also starring Sandi Gardiner

Also starring Veronica Sywak

Also starring Callard Harris

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Ceticultsot Beautiful, moving film.
Borserie it is finally so absorbing because it plays like a lyrical road odyssey that’s also a detective story.
Brenda The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one
Geraldine The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
afq2846 I saw the release of cannibal ferox on blu ray and in one of the extra features they mentioned this movie. Its supposed to be an homage to the 80s cannibal movies. To call this a bad movie is an under statement. The only positive thing about this film is that it is short. There are 0 scares in this film and more then anything its boring. You will see over 50 minutes before anything happens. Yes you will be watching 4 people argue and fight in the jungle for over 50 minutes before you get any kind of action. Why they have an unrated version of this is beyond me. There is hardly any gore and there is an entire ending scene that is so dark its hard to see what happened. This is a horrendous film that should be skipped at all costs. It is NOT a homage to the cannibal films of old its just a bad film. I repeat skip it at all costs.
philtxsg24 This is probably the worst movie I have ever seen. I spent 3 dollars to buy it which should have been a hint and was so bad I wanted my money back even with the little bit I bad spent on it. Basically they go into the jungle and the two couples get in an argument so they split up. One of the couples gets killed not very far into the movie after running into a tribe of cannibals. Then the second couple is rafting down the river and run into the tribe and get away from them. When they get further down the river meet up with another bunch of cannibals and end up at what they think is a celebration or party then when they think their gonna dance or something they get hit in the head and killed then the movie ends. There you go that's the whole movie
Paul Andrews Welcome to the Jungle starts in Fiji where newlywed couple Mandi (Sandy Gardiner) & Colby (Callard Harris) are enjoying their honeymoon, they meet up with old friends Bijou (Veronica Sywak) & Mikey (Nick Richey) who decide to get together. The two couples remember the story about Michael Rockefeller mysteriously disappearing off the coast of New Guinea in 1961, they recount stories of a helicopter pilot seeing an old white man living with a native tribe in the jungle & the two couples feel certain it's the missing Rockefeller. Sensing they could earn an absolute fortune if they do find him the two couples decide to travel to New Guinea & try to locate Rockefeller, the task turns out to be anything but easy as they have to deal with armed robbers, violent locals whom dislike Americans, unforgiving jungle terrain & hungry native cannibals...Not to be confused with the sometimes similarly titled action film starring The Rock this was co-photographed, written & directed by Jonathan Hensleigh who has written some really heavy weight Hollywood scripts including Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995) & Armageddon (1998) this seems a rather odd choice of film for him to be involved with, anyway I can't say I particularly liked it that much but strangely by the end I was warming to the style & the story. Lasting just under 80 minutes Welcome to the Jungle is a rip-off of The Blair Witch Project (1999) with it's 'found footage' recorded by those no longer with us structure, it's odd because many say that The Blair Witch Project was a rip-off of Cannibal Holocaust (1980) which it was to some extent so for this film to introduce cannibals in the jungle as it's main plot feels strange to me. All of Welcome to the Jungle is 'found footage' so we get really bad edits all over the place where people are cut off, scenes begin & end abruptly & while I am sure that the makers were trying to make it look & feel as homemade as possible it gets incredibly irritating. The idea that these four friends would trek through some really dangerous New Guinea jungle on the off chance they might find Michael Rockefeller is a stretch to say the least, I mean if one of the richest men in the US couldn't find him what makes them think they can? The mysterious disappearance of Michael Rockefeller is true by the way, nothing else in Welcome to the Jungle is though. A large problem with Welcome to the Jungle is that the four main character's spend the vast majority of the film arguing & bickering which gets annoying, I did start to get into the film a bit by the end & was getting used to the style but that's about the best thing I can say about it.Because of the 'found footage' nature of Welcome to the Jungle it's an absolute eyesore to sit through, there are times when the screen is pitch black & we just hear what's going on, there are times when the camera jerks around all over the place & the editing feels strange as well. I know it's meant to have the look of a homemade film but it just gets irritating & annoying to watch. There's barely any gore, a few dead bodies & a weaker take on one of Cannibal Holocaust's iconic imagery. Despite being about cannibals I can't remember any actual on screen cannibalism & it's really tame. Certainly not worthy of an 'Unrated' release, it was released as a soft '15' over here in the UK. The only thing that works in the films favour are the locations which are very authentic looking, very isolated & seem pretty dangerous & remote but that's not enough to save the film.Apparently filmed entirely in Fiji the film looks like what the makers intended, it's just that I don't particularly like this style of filmmaking & think it looks cheap. The acting is alright, the actor's have no material to work with apart from 'argue about this' dialogue.Welcome to the Jungle is probably about as good as the makers could have pulled off with what they were trying to do but I dislike the whole 'found footage' genre which doesn't help, neither does the fact that there's no cannibalism or proper gore or shock's in it. Not my cup of tea at all.
trashgang In 2004 Jonathan Hensleigh made The Punisher, a brutal flick that had some following. Jonathan thought to pick in on the docu style flicks by making the most shocking of them all, the cannibal script. To add more believability he added some backstory to it. Michael Clark Rockefeller disappeared during an expedition in the Asmat region of southwestern Netherlands New Guinea. His body was never found and it was believed that he was attacked by a crocodile although some say back then in the sixties cannibals were still living in that area. 4 friends are going to do some research towards Rockefeller on the island. Of course things go wrong an they do enter cannibal territory.The most shocking was Cannibal Holocaust back in 1980. Still up to today people are afraid to watch this gory flick. The problem with Welcome To The Jungle is that they tried to remake Cannibal Holocaust. It failed on all bits. The script is really boring. You have to wait until the last 20 minutes before the cruelty comes in. Before that there is a lot of talking and arguing between the friends. And even when they enter the cannibals it looks ridiculous. It's not by putting some skulls on a rock that you have a cannibal zone. On the part of the gore what's a natural fact in those kind of movies, well, it's low too. You do see parts of bodies everywhere but nothing is shown on-screen. Maybe the best part is when they discover one of their friend's corpse. The acting was okay but the script failed on all parts. Guns 'n' Roses Welcome To The Jungle sounds creepier than this flick.Gore 2/5 Nudity 0,5/5 Effects 2/5 Story 1/5 Comedy 0/5