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Rampage Movie Review
7 years ago
Warning for Spoilers
When I went to go see this movie, I didn't have high expectations. But now that I've watched it, I thought it was okay. It's a fun but dumb movie. I'm not a huge fan boy of the Rampage series, but I do know what's it about.
In the game Rampage, There's no plot but you get to play as 3 giant monsters (a gorilla named George, a wolf named Ralph and a dinosaur-like Lizard named Lizzie) and you get to smash buildings, tear apart cities, throw cars around and eat people while the military tries to stop you. The 3 monsters were just ordinary civilians that were mutated into these giant creatures.
In the Movie, the monsters are already animals that are transformed into monsters due to an experimental gas created by a shady company and it's up to a primatologist who has a close bond to George and a discredited doctor who once worked on the gas to save the world.
Characters
Dwayne Johnson as Davis is a good, likable character and his relation to George is genuinely charming. I like that we get to know why he's more into animals than humans. When was a solider in war, the countless deaths may have made him
jaded, but it was seeing the cruelty of animals at the hands of poachers that made him see the worst in humanity.
Naomie Harris as Dr. Kate Caldwell is also likable in this movie. I'm glad that she wasn't a forced romantic interest to Davis and I liked how she responded to Davis' view on humanity by pointing out that because of him George doesn't hate humans even though his mother was killed by poachers.
When I first saw the trailer, I knew that Jeffrey Dean Morgan's character Harvey Russell was a smarmy, condescending douchebag that was going to be cannon fodder in the end, simply cause he's with the government. However, during the film while he's hamming it up with his Texas accent, he becomes less a dick and more of a reasonable authority figure towards the two leads.
Do you know what Joe Manganiello's character in this movie and Bryan Cranston's character in Godzilla have in common? They were both given the impression that they would play a larger role in their movies, but were killed off after a few minutes of screen time during the first hour.
And last but not least the villains, Claire and Brett Wyden are the ones responsible for everything bad in the movie. Brett is just an dirty coward, but Claire on the other hand is cold and calculating. Considering her role in the HBO series "Billions", Malin Åkerman must have plenty of experience in playing a manipulative cow that always gets what she wants. Her death may have been over the top but it was satisfying after everything she has done.
Action
The action was okay. The action felt like it was going to fast and the comedy was forced. A lot of CGI and now that I've thought about the destruction of the city does invoke 9-11 imagery.
Final Thoughts
I didn't hate it or regret seeing it but it did have some annoying clichés like Overzealous government agents, arrogant military soldiers that ignore the protagonists and the fake death scene. Aside from making the monsters more realistic, instead of making them very similar to the game, This movie has used 90 percent of it's source material in this film. Also there's a blink and you'll miss it moment when the Rampage arcade game is located in Brett's office.
When I went to go see this movie, I didn't have high expectations. But now that I've watched it, I thought it was okay. It's a fun but dumb movie. I'm not a huge fan boy of the Rampage series, but I do know what's it about.
In the game Rampage, There's no plot but you get to play as 3 giant monsters (a gorilla named George, a wolf named Ralph and a dinosaur-like Lizard named Lizzie) and you get to smash buildings, tear apart cities, throw cars around and eat people while the military tries to stop you. The 3 monsters were just ordinary civilians that were mutated into these giant creatures.
In the Movie, the monsters are already animals that are transformed into monsters due to an experimental gas created by a shady company and it's up to a primatologist who has a close bond to George and a discredited doctor who once worked on the gas to save the world.
Characters
Dwayne Johnson as Davis is a good, likable character and his relation to George is genuinely charming. I like that we get to know why he's more into animals than humans. When was a solider in war, the countless deaths may have made him
jaded, but it was seeing the cruelty of animals at the hands of poachers that made him see the worst in humanity.
Naomie Harris as Dr. Kate Caldwell is also likable in this movie. I'm glad that she wasn't a forced romantic interest to Davis and I liked how she responded to Davis' view on humanity by pointing out that because of him George doesn't hate humans even though his mother was killed by poachers.
When I first saw the trailer, I knew that Jeffrey Dean Morgan's character Harvey Russell was a smarmy, condescending douchebag that was going to be cannon fodder in the end, simply cause he's with the government. However, during the film while he's hamming it up with his Texas accent, he becomes less a dick and more of a reasonable authority figure towards the two leads.
Do you know what Joe Manganiello's character in this movie and Bryan Cranston's character in Godzilla have in common? They were both given the impression that they would play a larger role in their movies, but were killed off after a few minutes of screen time during the first hour.
And last but not least the villains, Claire and Brett Wyden are the ones responsible for everything bad in the movie. Brett is just an dirty coward, but Claire on the other hand is cold and calculating. Considering her role in the HBO series "Billions", Malin Åkerman must have plenty of experience in playing a manipulative cow that always gets what she wants. Her death may have been over the top but it was satisfying after everything she has done.
Action
The action was okay. The action felt like it was going to fast and the comedy was forced. A lot of CGI and now that I've thought about the destruction of the city does invoke 9-11 imagery.
Final Thoughts
I didn't hate it or regret seeing it but it did have some annoying clichés like Overzealous government agents, arrogant military soldiers that ignore the protagonists and the fake death scene. Aside from making the monsters more realistic, instead of making them very similar to the game, This movie has used 90 percent of it's source material in this film. Also there's a blink and you'll miss it moment when the Rampage arcade game is located in Brett's office.
but as a hard gamer and a respecter of the good old games, i'm willing to give this movie a chance.
cant be any worse than the Mario brothers movie.