Jungleland

Name: Jungleland
Genre: Drama
Released: November 6, 2020
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 53
Cast: Charlie Hunnam, David Torres Jr., Fran Kranz, Jack O'Connell, Jere Shea

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Paramount Pictures | Release Date: November 6, 2020 | R

Starring: Charlie Hunnam, David Torres Jr., Fran Kranz, Jack O'Connell, Jere Shea, Jessica Barden, John Cullum, Johnno Wilson, Jonathan Majors, Katie Duncan, Meredith Holzman, Michael Tow, Naheem Garcia, Nick Mullen, Owen Burke, Patrick M. Walsh

Summary: Stan (Charlie Hunnam) and Lion (Jack O’Connell) are two brothers struggling to stay relevant in the underground world of bare-knuckle boxing. When Stan fails to pay back a dangerous crime boss (Jonathon Majors), they’re forced to deliver an unexpected traveler as they journey across the country for a high-stakes fighting tournament. WhileStan (Charlie Hunnam) and Lion (Jack O’Connell) are two brothers struggling to stay relevant in the underground world of bare-knuckle boxing. When Stan fails to pay back a dangerous crime boss (Jonathon Majors), they’re forced to deliver an unexpected traveler as they journey across the country for a high-stakes fighting tournament. While Stan trains Lion for the fight of his life, a series of events threaten to tear the brothers apart but their love for one another and belief in a better life keep them going.… Expand

Director: Max Winkler

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: R

Runtime: 90 min

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Katie Walsh

Nov 5, 2020

This dire and dreamy road movie is impressive work from director and co-writer Winkler (he co-wrote with Theodore Bressman and David Branson Smith). Read full review

RogerEbert.com Sheila O'Malley

Nov 6, 2020

Winkler, and featuring three very strong central performances and eye-catching poetic visuals, Jungleland is more of a mood-piece than anything else, and on that level it works beautifully. The mood is strange, sad, and hypnotic. Read full review

IndieWire David Ehrlich

Nov 6, 2020

In a country that insists everyone gets a title shot when most of them aren’t even allowed in the ring, Winkler rope-a-dopes us into a strange and rewarding story about three people who dare to punch above their weight class no matter what kind of beating they have to take for that temerity. Read full review

The Observer (UK) Simran Hans

Nov 30, 2020

Brits Hunnam, O’Connell and Barden are strangely well cast as its all-American grifters. (Hunnam in particular gives a finely tuned performance as a washed-up smooth talker who still knows how to flirt.) Read full review

Rex Reed

Nov 13, 2020

The only reason to waste money and risk COVID exposure in any theater showing Jungleland is the privilege of seeing Charlie Hunnam and Jack O’Connell, two of the best and most charismatic actors in films today, struggle to turn a turgid, cliché-riddled bore about the underground game of bare-knuckle fighting into something better than it could ever be. Read full review

Chuck Bowen

Nov 1, 2020

Director Max Winkler truly seems to believe that he’s cutting to the heart of the boulevard of broken dreams. Read full review

Glenn Kenny

Nov 5, 2020

The sweaty clichés enacted along the way are uniformly tired and ultimately offensive. A love scene near the movie’s finale, Winkler’s vision of sex among the underclass, is a caricature that could comfortably fit in the new “Borat” movie. Read full review

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kevinCHON

Jan 8, 2022

A movie about brotherhood, masculinity, and purpose. It is visceral and unforgiving.

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ty92

Dec 24, 2022

Good entertaining movie. I recommend watching this on Netflix. It had a unpredictable ending too.

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JLuis_001

Dec 4, 2020

It starts off well, you get interested in it, but it slowly starts to fade out, and never recovers, and that's a real shame because the good acting work of Jack O'Connell and Charlie Hunnam is wasted.

It doesn't become a bad film of course, but it never reaches a level worthy of somethingIt starts off well, you get interested in it, but it slowly starts to fade out, and never recovers, and that's a real shame because the good acting work of Jack O'Connell and Charlie Hunnam is wasted.

It doesn't become a bad film of course, but it never reaches a level worthy of something more significant.… Expand

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TVJerry

Nov 11, 2020

Jack O’Connell plays a sensitive bare-knuckle boxer and Charlie Hunnam is his misguided **** manager/brother. To pay off a gangster debt, they travel cross country with a young woman on what becomes a personal drama featuring 3 stereotypes (she’s the troubled misfit with a secret). At almostJack O’Connell plays a sensitive bare-knuckle boxer and Charlie Hunnam is his misguided **** manager/brother. To pay off a gangster debt, they travel cross country with a young woman on what becomes a personal drama featuring 3 stereotypes (she’s the troubled misfit with a secret). At almost every turn, older brother makes yet another mistake that puts their exploits into deeper trouble. Above all of this mess are the attempts at making their relationships touching. The actors are doing fine, but director Max Winkler never ramps up the drama to create any real empathy. It doesn’t help that so much of the narrative is transparent.… Expand

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watchmonster

Apr 12, 2021

This movie is a miss. As a viewer I'm not made to have any incentive to be interested in these characters. It's a slow story that leaves you with plenty of time to think 'what are you even doing with your life sitting here watching this terrible movie?' Once I had that realization I had toThis movie is a miss. As a viewer I'm not made to have any incentive to be interested in these characters. It's a slow story that leaves you with plenty of time to think 'what are you even doing with your life sitting here watching this terrible movie?' Once I had that realization I had to turn it off and write this review so that some can hopefully avoid loosing the time spent watching this and making the same mistake I did.… Expand

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