I've played the Rampage arcade game at birthday parties and pizza joints as a child, and back in 2009 when I heard that Rampage was getting its own movie I was excited and I kept waiting for it to happen. Though time went by and I started losing hope the movie would ever come out. I got to enjoy pizza and hot wings with this movie, I wasn't allowed to eat pizza while playing the Rampage game.
I thought the human characters received personalities strong enough to make them distinguishable so as people don't just complain that the humans are all "the same" like in any monster movie - Dwayne Johnson who plays Davis is the muscular hero, Kate is the smart girl, Claire is the villainess who thinks that the green mutation gas can make her rich, Brett is Claire's cowardly brother, Russell is essentially Negan without a bat, Colonel Blake is a stereotypical shoot-first, talk-later army commander. Those are all the humans you need to know.
GEORGE is really a nice guy (though he can be quite cruel, he plays pranks) and he can help turn the public's opinion that gorillas are aggressive animals, but then he gets the CRISPR gas that makes him giant and hyper-angry and so he loses his "human-like" personality, his ability to communicate to Davis and starts devolving into a stereotypical killer gorilla. My favorite monster was RALPH because he looked the coolest and he's not goofy looking at all like in the game, he looks the scariest of the three and is crazy-prepared for killing as he can fly and shoot tail quills. Also because Dwayne delivering the line "Of course the wolf flies" just makes Ralph even more likable cause I just love that line, especially how Dwayne said it. LIZZIE was my favorite character to play back in the game because she seemed the coolest, but here Lizzie is more of a spectacle and third-act event to keep the movie interesting than a distinct character.
I would say RAMPAGE was meant to be more of a visual effects spectacle and monster movie flick than a movie that wants to be famous for character or plot development, so I understand why a lot of critics didn't really think this movie was special and gave it less than positive reviews. This was absolutely created for devoted monster movie fans who enjoy Godzilla and King Kong especially the demographics of elementary school boys and teenage boys. RAMPAGE is supposed to be a fun film about monsters tearing up buildings and the U.S. Army then beating up each other - not a sophisticated movie that can please professional critics.
Uwe Boll should stop hating on this movie just because it shares the same name as his. It's because of the RAMPAGE arcade games that I actually heard of Uwe Boll's movies that have the same name and that I gave Boll's movies a try. So in a way, Boll should be thanking the Rampage games for helping his independent serial-killer anti-government movies get a little more famous.
Enjoyable monster flick, better than I thought, overall 4.5 out of 5 stars
I've played the Rampage arcade game at birthday parties and pizza joints as a child, and back in 2009 when I heard that Rampage was getting its own movie I was excited and I kept waiting for it to happen. Though time went by and I started losing hope the movie would ever come out. I got to enjoy pizza and hot wings with this movie, I wasn't allowed to eat pizza while playing the Rampage game.
I thought the human characters received personalities strong enough to make them distinguishable so as people don't just complain that the humans are all "the same" like in any monster movie - Dwayne Johnson who plays Davis is the muscular hero, Kate is the smart girl, Claire is the villainess who thinks that the green mutation gas can make her rich, Brett is Claire's cowardly brother, Russell is essentially Negan without a bat, Colonel Blake is a stereotypical shoot-first, talk-later army commander. Those are all the humans you need to know.
GEORGE is really a nice guy (though he can be quite cruel, he plays pranks) and he can help turn the public's opinion that gorillas are aggressive animals, but then he gets the CRISPR gas that makes him giant and hyper-angry and so he loses his "human-like" personality, his ability to communicate to Davis and starts devolving into a stereotypical killer gorilla. My favorite monster was RALPH because he looked the coolest and he's not goofy looking at all like in the game, he looks the scariest of the three and is crazy-prepared for killing as he can fly and shoot tail quills. Also because Dwayne delivering the line "Of course the wolf flies" just makes Ralph even more likable cause I just love that line, especially how Dwayne said it. LIZZIE was my favorite character to play back in the game because she seemed the coolest, but here Lizzie is more of a spectacle and third-act event to keep the movie interesting than a distinct character.
I would say RAMPAGE was meant to be more of a visual effects spectacle and monster movie flick than a movie that wants to be famous for character or plot development, so I understand why a lot of critics didn't really think this movie was special and gave it less than positive reviews. This was absolutely created for devoted monster movie fans who enjoy Godzilla and King Kong especially the demographics of elementary school boys and teenage boys. RAMPAGE is supposed to be a fun film about monsters tearing up buildings and the U.S. Army then beating up each other - not a sophisticated movie that can please professional critics.
Uwe Boll should stop hating on this movie just because it shares the same name as his. It's because of the RAMPAGE arcade games that I actually heard of Uwe Boll's movies that have the same name and that I gave Boll's movies a try. So in a way, Boll should be thanking the Rampage games for helping his independent serial-killer anti-government movies get a little more famous.