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Movie ID: 1211
RT slug: jungle_2017
RT URL: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/jungle_2017
Release year: 2017
Runtime: 115 mins
Wide release date: —
Limited release date: 2017-10-20
Festival premiere date: —
Streaming release date: 2017-10-20
Tomatometer final: 60%
Audience score final: 60%
Genres: Action, Mystery & Thriller
Directors: Greg McLean
Writers: Justin Monjo
Producers: Dana Lustig, Gary Hamilton, Greg McLean, Mark Lazarus, Mike Gabrawy, Todd Fellman
MPAA rating: R
Executive Producers: —
Created: 2026-08-21 22:19:51
Updated: 2026-08-21 22:19:51
A mysterious guide escorts an enthusiastic adventurer and his friend into the Amazon jungle. Their journey turns into a terrifying ordeal as the darkest elements of human nature and the deadliest threats of the wild force them to fight for survival.
Daniel Radcliffe does right by Jungle's fact-based story with a clearly committed performance, even if the film around him doesn't always match his efforts.
Canonical reviews: 53
Canonical fresh: 32
Canonical rotten: 21
Canonical calculated Tomatometer: 60%
Latest snapshot UTC: 2026-08-21 21:01:37
Snapshot Tomatometer: 60%
Snapshot review count: 53
Snapshot fresh count: 32
Snapshot rotten count: 21
Source note: Imported from manual review paste batch #2995 (full_snapshot)
| Company | Role |
|---|---|
| Momentum Pictures | distributor |
| Screen Australia | production |
| Billing | Name | Character |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Daniel Radcliffe | Yossi Ghinsberg |
| 2 | Alex Russell | Kevin |
| 3 | Thomas Kretschmann | Karl |
| 4 | Joel Jackson | Marcus |
| 5 | Lily Sullivan | Amie |
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| 2995 | 2026-08-21 16:01:00 (America/Panama) | 2026-08-21 21:01:37 | 60% | 53 | processed | Mode=full_snapshot. Processed 53 row(s); 0 row error(s). Parsed unique reviews in this batch=53, fresh=32, rotten=21, tomatometer=60%. Net new reviews added=53, fresh=32, rotten=21. Current canonical totals=53 reviews, 32 fresh, 21 rotten, tomatometer=60% (60.377%). Entered review count matched parsed batch count (53). Entered tomatometer matched parsed batch value (60%). |
| ID | Critic | Outlet | Fresh? | Score | RT Time Raw | Approx Published UTC | Quote |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 249361 | David Nusair | Reel Film Reviews | Fresh | 3.5/4 | 2021-08-04T10:30:06.000Z | 2021-08-04 10:30:06 | ...consistently elevated by Radcliffe's eye-opening, completely convincing performance. |
| 249362 | Glenn Dunks | Glenn Dunks | Fresh | — | 2021-05-02T11:30:04.000Z | 2021-05-02 11:30:04 | The changing dynamics of their friendship - especially Jackson's impressive portrayal of a physically depleted adventurer whose polished demeanour gradually unravels - give Jungle's second act a particularly vibrant hum of tension... |
| 249363 | Leigh Monson | Substream Magazine | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2020-10-01T23:02:09.000Z | 2020-10-01 23:02:09 | Daniel Radcliffe is precisely the presence who can make a film like Jungle work, and the film largely succeeds by being carried on his shoulders. |
| 249364 | Jason Best | Movie Talk | Fresh | 3/5 | 2018-05-24T12:30:19.000Z | 2018-05-24 12:30:19 | Some hallucinogenic episodes and fantasy sequences don't' really work, but Radcliffe's wild-eyed grit keeps us watching to the end. |
| 249365 | Adrian Hennigan | Haaretz | Fresh | — | 2018-05-16T19:45:39.000Z | 2018-05-16 19:45:39 | Radcliffe's portrayal of Yossi Ghinsberg in 'Jungle' is worthy of celebration for breaking the [Israeli] stereotype in Western movies. |
| 249366 | Ezequiel Boetti | Otroscines.com | Fresh | 3/5 | 2018-05-08T21:40:29.000Z | 2018-05-08 21:40:29 | With a solid performance from [Daniel] Radcliffe, Jungle could have been much better than it was... [Full Review in Spanish] |
| 249367 | Gaspar Zimerman | Clarín | Fresh | — | 2018-05-03T21:40:26.000Z | 2018-05-03 21:40:26 | In its best passages, the film manages to raise our adrenaline by showing the unpredictability that nature and man have in common. [Full review in Spanish] |
| 249368 | Sol Harris | Starburst | Fresh | 6/10 | 2018-04-12T22:50:29.000Z | 2018-04-12 22:50:29 | If only because it is an account of real life, it's an interesting tale that's very easy to sit through and it marks some of Radcliffe's best acting to date. |
| 249369 | Jonathan Barkan | Dread Central | Fresh | 4.5/5 | 2018-01-24T19:45:42.000Z | 2018-01-24 19:45:42 | Some minor pacing issues aside, Jungle is, without a doubt, the most thrilling, exhilarating, and inspiring film I've seen this year. |
| 249370 | Zoe Margolis | CineVue | Fresh | 4/5 | 2017-12-27T18:05:09.000Z | 2017-12-27 18:05:09 | It's an incredibly gripping tale, the suspense and terror made more so by the knowledge this is a true story. |
| 249371 | David Aldridge | Radio Times | Fresh | 3/5 | 2017-12-21T23:25:32.000Z | 2017-12-21 23:25:32 | This is a fact-based film that treads no new survival-drama ground, but it's well made, gruelling and watchable. |
| 249372 | Robert Kojder | Flickering Myth | Fresh | 3/5 | 2017-12-06T02:10:19.000Z | 2017-12-06 02:10:19 | Jungle most definitely expands on the meaning of the expression "it's a jungle out there". |
| 249373 | Nick Dent | Time Out Sydney | Fresh | 3/5 | 2017-11-16T18:55:15.000Z | 2017-11-16 18:55:15 | Radcliffe throws himself wholeheartedly into the physical demands of this role and the result is a harrowing journey from which it's hard to glean much optimism. The boy might live, but what will be left of him? |
| 249374 | Ben Sachs | Chicago Reader | Fresh | — | 2017-11-16T18:00:17.000Z | 2017-11-16 18:00:17 | By presenting the characters as psychological abstractions, McLean makes the story feel universal. He wants you to ask whether you'd be capable of surviving an experience like this. |
| 249375 | Nathan Osborne | Film Inquiry | Rotten | — | 2017-11-15T22:30:25.000Z | 2017-11-15 22:30:25 | The direction is fine but the script and pacing is creaky to say the least, ultimately abandoning Jungle up the creek without a paddle. |
| 249376 | Jason Di Rosso | The Final Cut | Rotten | — | 2017-11-09T23:00:30.000Z | 2017-11-09 23:00:30 | Unfortunately, [Daniel] Radcliffe doesn't have the breadth to find a middle register between grim, action movie determination and boyish charm, and suggest the required psychological complexity. |
| 249377 | Leigh Paatsch | Herald Sun (Australia) | Rotten | 2.5/5 | 2017-11-08T19:40:14.000Z | 2017-11-08 19:40:14 | While Jungle is not the ideal showcase for any actor - the scripting is wispy and the pacing is inordinately slack - Radcliffe gives everything a red hot go from start to finish. |
| 249378 | Stephen Romei | The Australian | Fresh | 2.5/5 | 2017-11-03T19:30:28.000Z | 2017-11-03 19:30:28 | This is a solid movie about man versus nature. |
| 249379 | Susan Granger | SSG Syndicate | Fresh | 6/10 | 2017-10-28T13:55:07.000Z | 2017-10-28 13:55:07 | Extraordinary survivalist tale - and kudos to Daniel Radcliffe for rising to this grueling wilderness challenge. |
| 249380 | Brian Orndorf | Blu-ray.com | Rotten | C+ | 2017-10-27T14:10:10.000Z | 2017-10-27 14:10:10 | An odd picture, never really achieving an identity as something scary or profound, often spinning its wheels with aimless scenes while star Daniel Radcliffe carries the film with a fantastically committed lead performance. |
| 249381 | Edward Porter | Sunday Times (UK) | Rotten | 2/5 | 2017-10-23T23:40:20.000Z | 2017-10-23 23:40:20 | Daniel Radcliffe is on good form in this dramatisation of Yossi Ghinsberg's memoir... but Greg McLean's film fails in an area where true-story movies should really be looking to pick up points: realism. |
| 249382 | Joule Zelman | The Stranger (Seattle, WA) | Rotten | — | 2017-10-23T20:25:20.000Z | 2017-10-23 20:25:20 | The real problem is that the film squanders its greatest source of tension: Thomas Kretschmann. |
| 249383 | Brian Thompson | The Young Folks | Rotten | 5/10 | 2017-10-23T19:40:13.000Z | 2017-10-23 19:40:13 | Jungle can never decide if it wants to go full Disney or veer hard into the grisly nature of its tale, and it isn't willing to do the legwork necessary to connect its two minds. |
| 249384 | Matt Glasby | Total Film | Fresh | 3/5 | 2017-10-23T10:20:13.000Z | 2017-10-23 10:20:13 | What follows is an extraordinary test of character, presented in sometimes less-than extraordinary fashion, although the river sequences are suitably hair-raising. |
| 249385 | Todd Jorgenson | Cinemalogue | Rotten | — | 2017-10-21T00:25:21.000Z | 2017-10-21 00:25:21 | Despite Radcliffe's committed portrayal, the film becomes muddled in the second half, meandering into flashbacks and hallucinations that don't add much suspense. |
| 249386 | Jeffrey M. Anderson | Common Sense Media | Rotten | 2/5 | 2017-10-20T23:35:28.000Z | 2017-10-20 23:35:28 | Exploitation director Greg McLean chooses a numbingly middling approach to tell this true exploration story; the movie is too blunt to be sympathetic but also too careful to be thrilling. |
| 249387 | William Bibbiani | IGN Movies | Rotten | 6/10 | 2017-10-20T21:15:31.000Z | 2017-10-20 21:15:31 | Unfortunately our journey with Yossi to these life-changing moments was preceded by an hour of humdrum meandering, so while we can appreciate just how important these revelations may be to him, it doesn't necessarily translate to the viewer. |
| 249388 | Anna Smith | Time Out | Fresh | 3/5 | 2017-10-20T20:15:26.000Z | 2017-10-20 20:15:26 | More time could have been spent developing the bond between the men, but ultimately this is quite gripping: a weepie bromance. You don't see one of those every day. |
| 249389 | April Wolfe | Village Voice | Fresh | — | 2017-10-20T18:20:31.000Z | 2017-10-20 18:20:31 | [Director Greg] McLean does largely succeed here in telling a story that's just as thrilling as its source material. |
| 249390 | Vikram Murthi | RogerEbert.com | Fresh | 2.5/4 | 2017-10-20T17:05:21.000Z | 2017-10-20 17:05:21 | Despite its many obvious flaws ... Yossi's story has enough weight on its own to render Jungle a moderately compelling survival flick. |
| 249391 | Christian Toto | HollywoodInToto.com | Fresh | 3/4 | 2017-10-20T15:15:11.000Z | 2017-10-20 15:15:11 | The director of 'Wolf Creek' doesn't need to goose reality to grab us by the collar. Jungle proves it. |
| 249392 | Jonathan W. Hickman | Daily Film Fix | Fresh | 7/10 | 2017-10-20T13:35:15.000Z | 2017-10-20 13:35:15 | ...an effective, inspiring bit of endurance cinema. And it has Radcliffe! |
| 249393 | Allan Hunter | Daily Express (UK) | Rotten | 3/5 | 2017-10-20T10:41:35.000Z | 2017-10-20 10:41:35 | Hallucinations and fantasy sequences tend towards the tacky in a film that fails to make the most of an incredible journey. |
| 249394 | Mark Dujsik | Mark Reviews Movies | Rotten | 2/4 | 2017-10-20T06:15:10.000Z | 2017-10-20 06:15:10 | Jungle attempts to dig into the inner life of its protagonist ... It doesn't succeed... |
| 249395 | Ed Potton | The Times (UK) | Rotten | 2/5 | 2017-10-20T00:25:32.000Z | 2017-10-20 00:25:32 | ... 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. |
| 249396 | Tim Robey | Daily Telegraph (UK) | Fresh | 3/5 | 2017-10-19T23:05:45.000Z | 2017-10-19 23:05:45 | It's one of [Radcliffe's] best performances - strong enough to help the film ride out its considerable bumps ... |
| 249397 | Robert Abele | Los Angeles Times | Rotten | — | 2017-10-19T18:45:38.000Z | 2017-10-19 18:45:38 | 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. |
| 249398 | Maitland McDonagh | Film Journal International | Fresh | — | 2017-10-19T15:10:22.000Z | 2017-10-19 15:10:22 | Strong performances all around keep the story from feeling like an exploitation shocker. |
| 249399 | Robert Yaniz, Jr. | We Got This Covered | Rotten | 5/10 | 2017-10-19T14:30:19.000Z | 2017-10-19 14:30:19 | Daniel Radcliffe does what he can to elevate the survival story at the heart of Jungle, but the film's awkward pacing and over-reliance on cliche hold him back. |
| 249400 | Jeannette Catsoulis | New York Times | Rotten | — | 2017-10-19T12:00:18.000Z | 2017-10-19 12:00:18 | 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. |
| 249401 | James Dyer | Empire Magazine | Rotten | 2/5 | 2017-10-19T10:35:15.000Z | 2017-10-19 10:35:15 | Radcliffe menaced by a hostile bush is far more entertaining as innuendo than actual drama. What might have been Deliverance in the tropics is rather a Dan versus wilderness yarn. |
| 249402 | Alex McLevy | AV Club | Fresh | B- | 2017-10-17T18:55:21.000Z | 2017-10-17 18:55:21 | Radcliffe convincingly portrays a man slowly stripped to his barest self, driven along by little more than a primal urge to survive. |
| 249403 | Daniel Goodwin | HeyUGuys | Rotten | 2/5 | 2017-10-17T17:00:16.000Z | 2017-10-17 17:00:16 | Jungle is fumbled fun for the first half but just about pithy enough to not seem longer than its running time. |
| 249404 | Nikki Baughan | The List | Fresh | 3/5 | 2017-10-16T19:50:21.000Z | 2017-10-16 19:50:21 | If Jungle plays like another slice of survival porn, it doesn't diminish the inspirational true story that lies at its heart. |
| 249405 | Meredith Borders | Birth.Movies.Death. | Fresh | — | 2017-10-15T22:35:10.000Z | 2017-10-15 22:35:10 | A true story of horror and trauma, the most extreme battle between man and nature that we can imagine. But it's also an inspiring story of faith, and loyalty, and the ineffable resilience of the human spirit. |
| 249406 | Henry Stewart | Slant Magazine | Rotten | 1/4 | 2017-10-14T16:45:06.000Z | 2017-10-14 16:45:06 | Greg McLean and screenwriter Justin Monjo faithfully hit the key plot points of Yossi Ghinsberg's 1993 book Back from Tuichi but fail to sell the severity of the threats Yossi confronts. |
| 249407 | Alex Lines | Film Inquiry | Fresh | — | 2017-08-31T01:35:17.000Z | 2017-08-31 01:35:17 | McLean has a talent of displaying violence that's genuinely shocking, in a world where audiences have become so desensitised to cinematic bloodshed. |
| 249408 | Guy Lodge | Variety | Fresh | — | 2017-08-23T19:30:17.000Z | 2017-08-23 19:30:17 | McLean has picked an opportune moment to demonstrate his skills outside the bloodiest horror wheelhouse. Job done. |
| 249409 | Erin Free | FILMINK (Australia) | Fresh | 18/20 | 2017-08-15T10:45:07.000Z | 2017-08-15 10:45:07 | Chilling and harrowing, Jungle soars in strange and unexpected ways. |
| 249410 | Jim Schembri | 3AW | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2017-08-11T06:50:08.000Z | 2017-08-11 06:50:08 | A knockout survival film about four guys who get lost in the beautiful but dangerous Bolivian jungle...Terrific stuff. |
| 249411 | Harry Windsor | The Hollywood Reporter | Rotten | — | 2017-08-09T15:15:07.000Z | 2017-08-09 15:15:07 | 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. |
| 249412 | Sarah Ward | Screen International | Fresh | — | 2017-08-04T12:00:09.000Z | 2017-08-04 12:00:09 | Inspiring survivalist dramatisations and pulpy genre thrills make for predictably awkward bedfellows, though Jungle brings enough spirit to each to remain engaging enough. |
| 249413 | Luke Buckmaster | Guardian | Rotten | 2/5 | 2017-08-03T18:40:07.000Z | 2017-08-03 18:40:07 | None of the cast wrestle much impact from the material. Even and especially Radcliffe, who is sent through the wringer in various terrible ways. |
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