Jungle (2025) – Survival Is the Only Law That Matters

He escaped the jungle once—but some places don’t let you go twice

In Jungle (2025), Daniel Radcliffe returns to the heart of darkness in a harrowing sequel that builds upon the brutal realism of the original 2017 film. Inspired once again by true survival stories, this next chapter plunges deeper into the Amazon rainforest—not just as a setting, but as a living, breathing antagonist. The jungle doesn’t just test the body—it invades the mind, distorting time, memory, and even identity.

Radcliffe reprises his role as Yossi Ghinsberg, now older and haunted by his past. After years of trying to leave the trauma behind, he is drawn back into the wilderness when a young adventurer goes missing on the same deadly trail Yossi once barely survived. Against his better judgment, Yossi joins a small rescue team and returns to the unforgiving jungle—this time not as a lost traveler, but as a reluctant guide. However, the Amazon has changed... or maybe it’s Yossi who has.

This sequel smartly shifts focus from naive ambition to psychological reckoning. The jungle’s physical threats—snakes, floods, starvation—are still present, but the deeper danger now lies within. As the group’s journey grows more desperate, trust fractures, hallucinations creep in, and Yossi begins to question what’s real. Is the jungle merely a landscape, or something more ancient and sentient, feeding off fear and guilt?

Visually, the film is lush and unrelenting. Every leaf drips with menace, every nightfall feels like a countdown to madness. Radcliffe delivers a raw and unflinching performance, showing a man who has survived the unthinkable—but may not survive returning to it. Director Greg McLean infuses the sequel with tighter pacing and a more surreal edge, leaning into the psychological horror of isolation in nature’s most primal depths.

Jungle (2025) is less about escape and more about confrontation—of trauma, of nature, and of the parts of ourselves we try to bury. It’s a powerful meditation on memory, endurance, and the cost of going back where you swore you’d never return. In the jungle, you don’t just fight for life—you fight for your soul.