History YMMV / Rampage2018

* VideoGameMoviesSuck: Downplayed. The film has garnered a 52% "rotten" rating, which is higher than most films on the ([[Administrivia/ExampleSectionectomy now removed]]) list. (Dwayne Johnson even tweeted about breaking "the dreaded video game curse.") [[CriticalDissonance The audience]] meanwhile, has been a lot warmer to the film, with an 79% rating. This doesn't even mention critics like [[Creator/BobChipman MovieBob,]] who gave the film glowing reviews and have even called it "the best video game movie ever made". [[DamnedByFaintPraise That's a low bar to clear,]] [[Film/DetectivePikachu and no longer true,]] but still.

* {{Narm}}: Ralph just looks... awkward when in flight. During the fight with George, the way he gracefully swoops away and daintily lands on his feet, light as a feather ''despite being a 30-foot wolf'', almost borders on comical.

* ViewerSpeciesConfusion: Lizzie's mutations make it difficult to tell if she started as a crocodile or an alligator. Her teeth stick out when her jaws are shut, which is a fast way to identify a crocodile, but of course she's been mutating like crazy, and so she has shark-like rows of teeth that make this distinguishing technique questionable. Given that the United States has a mere 2,000 crocodiles in the very tip of Florida, while 5 million alligators roam the south-east states as the indigenous reptile, she's most likely an alligator.
*** Except not if we take into account the fact that Lizzie has green scales(StandardCartoonAnimalColors for a crocodile), as opposed to the black scales sported by American alligators, and in the MissingTrailerScene, Davis explicitly identifies her as a giant crocodile. That should make it pretty clear what she is.

** George. He's an albino gorilla who is the LastOfHisKind and would've been a high priority target of poachers if he remained in Africa. As a baby, he hid under the jeep of the poachers who killed his mother and was forced to watch as the poachers cruelly continued to [[KickTheDog beat her corpse]] before cutting her up and turn her hands into ashtrays. With this backstory in mind, George's transformation into a destructive Kaiju only makes him more tragic.

* ArtisticLicenseMilitary: Somehow they manage to shove a MOAB into a B-2 Spirit bomber when the actual MOAB is so large it can only be dropped from a C-130 Hercules transport by shoving it out the back hatch. They also overstate it's firepower quite substantially. While the MOAB is large, it creates the equivalent of 11 tons of TNT in explosive force, that is not nearly enough to level most of the city, as described in the movie.

* RippedFromTheHeadlines: The MOAB was possibly included because of a previous event in April 2017 making in gain public attention.

* ArtisticLicenseMilitary: Somehow they manage to shove a MOAB into a B-2 Spirit bomber when the actual MOAB is so large it can only be dropped from a C-130 Hercules transport by shoving it out the back hatch. They also overstate it's firepower quite substantially. While the MOAB is large, it creates the equivalent of 11 tons of TNT in explosive force. That is not nearly enough to level most of the city, as described in the movie.

* ArtisticLicenseMilitary: Somehow they manage to shove a MOAB into a B-2 Spirit bomber when the actual MOAB is so large it can only be dropped from a C-130 Hercules transport by shoving it out the back hatch.

* SoOkayItsAverage: Critical reception ranges from decent to mediocre.
* UncannyValley: When Ralph [[spoiler:[[WingPull reveals his flight membranes]] and glides through the air]], he just looks... off.
* VideoGameMoviesSuck: Downplayed. The film has garnered a 52% "rotten" rating, which is higher than most films on the ([[Administrivia/ExampleSectionectomy now removed]]) list. (Dwayne Johnson even tweeted about breaking "the dreaded video game curse.") [[CriticalDissonance The audience]] meanwhile, has been a lot warmer to the film, with an 79% rating. This doesn't even mention critics like [[Creator/BobChipman MovieBob,]] who gave the film glowing reviews and have even called it "the best video game movie ever made". [[DamnedByFaintPraise That's a low bar to clear, but still.]]

* HilariousInHindsight: In the original arcade and video games, Ralph is a giant werewolf. Burke, the lead mercenary sent to kill Ralph in the film, is played by Creator/JoeManganiello, whose previous acting roles included playing [[Series/TrueBlood a werewolf]].

* OneSceneWonder: Joe Manganiello as Burke, the leader of the private military group that goes after Ralph. [[spoiler:Burke is the last one standing and attempts to go out with a fight, even when he realizes he's screwed.]]

* CounterpartComparison: Anyone who has played ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'' will see certain parallels between Ralph and the Great Gray Wolf Sif. Of course, Ralph doesn't need to hold a sword in his jaws to bring the destruction.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The remix of [[Music/TheSmashingPumpkins Bullet with Butterfly Wings]] that plays in the first trailer, and the end credits track "The Rage" by Kid Cudi which samples the former song.

%%* FandomRivalry: [[DownplayedTrope A little bit]] with ''Film/TombRaider2018'', over which video game movie adaptation is better, considering that both movies came out recently and have received decent ratings from reviewers (at least, compared to other video game adaptations) and warm reception from fans of the games and are pretty strong contenders for 'best video game movie' title.
* Expy: Anyone who has played ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'' will see certain parallels between Ralph and the Great Gray Wolf Sif. Of course, Ralph doesn't need to hold a sword in his jaws to bring the destruction.

* MoralEventHorizon: Brett is amoral but [[HarmlessVillain not]] really evil per se, at least until he finally agreed to go along with Claire’s plans to crash the plane, and when that failed, to draw both George and Ralph to Chicago, never mind the massive collateral damage in their wake. Later, he does it again when he decides to abandon his sister and her pet rat by surrendering both it and Claire’s laptop to Russell in exchange for getting a chance to run away scot-free, which [[RewardedAsATraitorDeserves doesn’t]] work out for him as he had [[KarmicDeath hoped]]. [[spoiler:It was all a set-up by Russell to get him killed by falling debris.]]

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: The remix of [[Music/TheSmashingPumpkins Bullet with Butterfly Wings]] that plays in the first trailer, and the end credits track "The Rage" by Kid Cudi which samples the former song.

* VisualEffectsOfAwesome: The effects are by Creator/{{WETA}}, the same production company that made ''Film/SanAndreas'', ''Film/TheHobbit'' and, appropriately so, the ''Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes'' movies since 2011, so the monsters and destruction look ''beautiful''.

* NightmareFuel:
** The beginning sequence begins with the mutilated corpses of almost an entire crew in a satellite and a woman desperately trying to escape. Said corpses caused by a mutated rat about as large as an ape, and purely interested in wanton murder. Thankfully, she manages to escape the monster...[[spoiler:only for the damages it caused to her escape pod to rend open as she enters orbits and the woman is atomized]].
** While spectacular, the attack of the monster trio on Chicago is also terrifying in many ways. Ralph seems often more concerned on snacking on people, at one point even retreating briefly to chew on a man. When humvees are thrown in the air like plastic toys, at least twice you can also see their drivers flying away and then to the ground, screaming. Things look hopeless enough already, then a third monster ''much'' bigger than the other two joins them to make the situation even more desperate - to the point the military think the only option left is to use such firepower there will be no Chicago left afterwards. Overall, the destruction can feel much less funny when it looks more realistic as it does here.
** [[spoiler:Ralph's death. He is brutally thrown about and chewed on by Lizzie, while the camera give a close-up look or Ralph's terrified, agonized expression. Then she does the infamous crocodile death roll, and ''twists his head clean off his neck'' and swallows it in one gulp! Even for a giant flying wolf, it's a horrifically violent end]].
** Lizzie makes her entrance into the Chicago fight by going up the river and then completely capsizing a ferry, and we get a good shot of its unfortunate passengers screaming as they're flung off the boat or drowned when the ship capsizes.
** Really, the violence in the movie is something to behold as it is R rated style violence within the PG-13 ratings.

* ViewerSpeciesConfusion: Lizzie's design makes it difficult to tell if she's a crocodile or an alligator. Her teeth stick out when her jaws are shut, which is an easy way to identify a crocodile, but she has shark-like rows of teeth that make this distinguishing technique questionable. Given that the United States has only about 2,000 crocodiles in the very tip of Florida, while 5 million alligators roam the nation's southeast region, she's most likely an alligator.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: The remix of [[Music/TheSmashingPumpkins Bullet with Butterfly Wings]] that plays in the trailer.

* UncannyValley: When Ralph [[spoiler:[[WingPull reveals his flight membranes]] and glides through the air]], he just looks...o ff.

* {{Narm}}: Ralph just looks...awkward when in flight. During the fight with George, the way he gracefully swoops away and daintily lands on his feet, light as a feather ''despite being a 30-foot wolf, '' almost borders on comical.

** While spectacular, the attack of the monster trio on Chicago is also terrifying in many ways. Ralph seems often more concerned on snacking on people (at one point three civilians end up in his mouth in a single swoop). When humvees are thrown in the air like plastic toys, at least twice you can also see their drivers flying away and then to the ground, screaming. Things look hopeless enough already, then a third monster ''much'' bigger than the other two joins them to make the situation even more desperate - to the point the military think the only option left is to use such firepower there will practically be no Chicago left afterwards.

* SoOkayItsAverage: Critic reception ranges from decent to mediocre.
* UncannyValley: When Ralph [[spoiler:[[WingPull reveals his flight membranes]] and glides through the air]], he just looks...off.

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: Despite being an American production, the film has grossed over 150 million dollars in China while grossing less than 100 million back in the United States. Though this doesn't make ''Rampage'' unusual, as multiple sci-fi or action films originating from the U.S.A. have done financially better in China throughout the 2010s decade such as Terminator Genisys, Transformers: The Last Knight, Ready Player One and Fate of the Furious.

* ViewerSpeciesConfusion: Is Lizzie a crocodile or an alligator?

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks:
** Averted in the pre-release. Despite the changes present[[note]]George getting an AdaptationDyeJob to albino, Ralph being changed from a giant werewolf to a giant wolf, Lizzie now being a giant crocodile, and all monsters changed from mutated humans to mutant animals[[/note]], fan reaction has largely been positive thus far even if [[VideogameMoviesSuck expectations are low]]. It helps that the games didn't have much in the way of story to begin with.
** There is, however, the matter of the GenreShift from a cartoonish romp to a serious action movie... at least until the film came out and was revealed to have dialogue absolutely buttered in corn and characters far too self aware to call the film serious by any stretch of the word.

* SoOkayItsAverage: Critic reception ranges from decent to mediocre. The film is by no means a masterpiece and it [[ClicheStorm certainly isn't very original]], but it features stunning effects work and spectacular fights between the monsters, and the self-aware script and the actors casual performances give the film a fun undertone to go along with the action.