October 13, 2003

I saw The Rundown last night, and enjoyed it as a good action movie with some comical moments (as all movies seem to have these days). It wasn't until the very end of the movie when my buddy Joe pointed out in the credits that one of the actors was Ernie Reyes, Jr. For those of you who don't remember Ernie, he was The Last Electric Knight back in the old days. Ernie played a Brazilian rebel who has a battle with The Rock. The dude is ripped (Ernie is)!! Given that most of the movie took place in Brazil, it was also fitting that they put some Capoeira music of the berimbau and the atabaques in during that fight scene and had some Capoeira-like moves. I wondered about where Ernie had been all these years, so I did a quick search on him on Google. I didn't realize he was so old already (born 1972). His official website is erniereyesjr.com, which didn't seem to work here on my work computer. Might need to upgrade a plug-in or something. Also interesting is that apparently, Ernie recorded a Hip Hop CD called "Asia's Last Dragon". Go figure. And I didn't realize this either, but Ernie's Filipino, and not Chinese. Who woulda thunk it? He was so pale as a kid.

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