I found "Welcome to the Jungle" to be a very pleasant surprise. I didn't know what to expect but I found that Jean Claude Van Damme does a great job of parodying his early persona. The movie starts off in civilization as a light comedy and maintains that comic vein throughout but once in the jungle darkness looms. And it is a very effective darkness. Director Rob Meltzer does a wonderful job gradually moving from light comedy to a scary darkness of the soul. The drugged decent into madness when the crew spins out of control reminded me of the last section of "Apocalypse Now" Meltzer gets good performances out of his crew and makes the most of his visuals. He does a great job balancing the comic aspects with the primal darkness. I would love to see what he could do with a horror show or dark adventure. There were cheers from the audience at the satisfying ending.
Review of Welcome to the Jungle
