{"id":1193,"date":"2018-08-07T15:00:06","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T21:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/?p=1193"},"modified":"2018-07-29T16:01:59","modified_gmt":"2018-07-29T22:01:59","slug":"movie-rampage-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2018\/08\/07\/movie-rampage-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"MOVIE: Rampage (2018)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/6\/6b\/Rampage_teaser_film_poster.jpg\" alt=\"Rampage\" width=\"220\" height=\"326\" \/>Rampage<br \/>\n<\/u><\/strong>Year: 2018<br \/>\nRating: PG-13<br \/>\nLength: 107 minutes \/ 1.78 hours<\/p>\n<p>I didn\u2019t go into this movie expecting much, and it still disappointed me. Seems like every time some Hollywood studio gets their hands on a video game franchise and decides to turn it into a movie, this is the kind of thing we get. I wouldn\u2019t be so mad about it except that nothing in this film seems anywhere close to original at all. In fact, it seems to be cobbled together from summer movie blockbuster clich\u00e9s and tropes, almost like a CGI-heavy Frankenstein. What\u2019s probably worse is that it could have been somewhat passable if it held to the source material.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a weird kind of disconnect when a movie like\u00a0<em>Rampage<\/em>\u00a0(2018) has an actual arcade cabinet of the game it\u2019s based on in the background of the corporate penthouse suite. Like, did they do this genetic-engineering research and name it \u201cRampage,\u201d fully knowing that they\u2019d create the\u00a0<em>exact<\/em>\u00a0creatures from the game? In any case, the whole plot is contrived and plays out exactly how you think it would. If only they had Dwayne \u201cThe Rock\u201d Johnson\u2019s character turn into an enormous white ape and destroy half of Chicago, then that\u2019d be something I\u2019d want to watch.<\/p>\n<p>One of the most significant problems with\u00a0<em>Rampage<\/em>, aside from its sub-par CGI, is that the whole reason to even get to the point where monsters are destroying buildings (which was the entire point of the video game) was so poorly-thought-out as to be laughable. Like, what did they think was going to happen? Furthermore, once these monsters accomplished their destructive mayhem\u2014the most satisfying part of the movie, by the way\u2014you realize that it took pretty much the entire film to get to a 10-minute segment that lived up to its source material.<\/p>\n<p>Another poorly-executed video game movie, I give\u00a0<em>Rampage<\/em>\u00a01.5 stars out of 5.<\/p>\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a01\/2<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rampage Year: 2018 Rating: PG-13 Length: 107 minutes \/ 1.78 hours I didn\u2019t go into this movie expecting much, and it still disappointed me. Seems like every time some Hollywood studio gets their hands on a video game franchise and decides to turn it into a movie, this is the kind of thing we get. 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