Welcome to the Jungle (2013)

Before watching the movie I read some bad unofficial reviews about it. Actors were bad, movie only worth watching when you are a JCVD fan, that kind of stuff. One review was positive though someone said she enjoyed the movie and that it's the kind of movie you can watch with your kids.

I thought the trailer was funny and I had high expectations for the movie, which makes it easy to get disappointed.

My review includes spoilers.

The movie starts at the office, we get to know the characters and even though nothing funny happens yet, it was enjoyable to watch. Best moment is when JCVD's character Storm Rothchild makes an entrance.

I don't think any of the characters say things that are funny except for Storms' war joke. I do think the movie has funny scenes like when they are on the plane and meet the pilot.

I loved the tiger attack scene. I thought it was strange that nobody went looking for Storm after he fell of the cliff.

I don't like that Stoms' personality changed after he comes back from falling of the cliff. It does give us some funny scenes though like when he was in that wheelbarrow. That joke about him smelling bad wasn't funny at all.

Ok, back to the story. When they find out they are stuck on the Island everybody, except for the main characters, goes nuts. I think this would have been a better comedy if they hadn't gone over the top with the things they do on that Island. In the trailer I thought the comment about eating the fat guy was funny but it wasn't funny in the movie. The person who said that was serious and actually ate one or more of the fingers of his coworker. That's sick. Also there were a lot of sex jokes that weren't even funny.

I think that woman who said you can enjoy this movie with your kids hasn't got young children.

At the end of the movie Storm gets arrested. Why on earth did they put that in the script? I wanted a happy ending for Storm who we get feel sympathy for at the end of the movie.

All in all I don't think it's a bad movie but it's not very good either. I think the story is very good and that it could have been a great movie if it had better jokes and less awkward stuff happening on the Island.

JCVD did a very good job though, his character was by far the best. Good job JCVD!

Maybe if I didn't have such high expectations I would have enjoyed it more. For now I give it a 6 out of 10.