Rampage Movie Details:
Directed by: Brad Peyton
Produced by: Brad Peyton
Beau Flynn
John Rickard
Hiram Garcia
Story by: Ryan Engle
Music by: Andrew Lockington
Cinematography: Jaron Presant
Edited by: Jim May
Bob Ducsay
Production company: New Line Cinema
Flynn Picture Company
Rickard Pictures
Seven Bucks Productions
Distributed by: Warner Bros. Pictures
Country: United States
Language: English
Movie Review:3.5/5
Movie Review:
Based on a popular arcade game from the ’80s, Rampage is about three giant creatures wreaking havoc on human cities. Davis (Dwayne Johnson) is a primatologist and handler of one of the creatures, George the gorilla. While the creatures destroy everything in their path, Davis teams up with Dr Chadwell (Naomie Harris) and Agent Russel (Jeffery Dean Morgan) to stop them.
Rampage, as the name would suggest, is a movie about giant creatures tearing up the civilized world. As you’d expect from this genre faithful, there’s an abundance of loud and gory violence, as a giant albino gorilla, a Godzilla-like crocodile and a mammoth wolf run rampant in the human world. Their only foil, is a hulk-sized Dwayne Johnson playing a hybrid of characters he’s played before in movies like Journey 2 The Mysterious Island, San Andreas, Jumanji and Welcome To The Jungle / The Rundown. Like most creature features, Rampage is a film with a simple premise. The giant mutated creatures will break and smash everything in sight, while the muscular hero and his band of eclectic individuals will try to save the day.
The original smash ‘em up game was about breaking and climbing buildings. The movie scales up those seemingly simple actions with a sci-fi upgrade. Here, a science experiment on advance genetics, being conducted aboard a space station, goes horribly wrong, in a Ridley Scott’s Alien sort of way. The mutagen crash lands on Earth and it turns an average wolf, crocodile and an exotic looking gorilla into giant scary monsters. The company behind the experiments is headed by the greedy sister-brother duo Claire (Malin Akerman) and Brett Wyden (Jake Lacy) who only care about making profits from the biological armageddon at hand. In the ensuing mayhem of the creatures running around Chicago, the US army joins Davis and his friends to both record and stop the doom.
The action in Rampage has been captured to great effect. The sights of blowing up cars and breaking skyscrapers doesn’t look dizzying as it did in films like The Avengers or Man Of Steel. While this is no superhero film, the crash and burn action sequences certainly give the effect of one. Dwayne Johnson squares off against these monsters like he’s a superhero. Thankfully there are no OTT sequences featuring him killing the creatures. But his onscreen charisma is big enough to keep you hooked on to the film. The biggest flaw of Rampage though is its predictability. Every set piece in this movie has been done-to-death in movies like King Kong, Godzilla and Johnson’s own San Andreas. Jeffery Dean Morgan as the cowboy super agent though is a big put off. Same goes for Naomie Harris who plays the clever scientist like a damsel in distress.
Despite the pastiche form, director Brad Peyton still manages to make this mindless-action fiesta a fun ride. His film isn’t the smartest movie ever made, but it does serve up some cool fan boys moments. The camaraderie between the gorilla and Dwayne Johnson is cool brings in an element of humour to this otherwise generic end-of-the-world movie. This one’s definitely worth a one-time watch.
Plot:
Primatologist Davis Okoye (Dwayne Johnson), a man who is the head of an anti-poaching unit, finds out his beloved albino silverback gorilla friend George has been infected with a mysterious experimental gas that turns him into a giant, aggressive beast. To make matters worse, a grey wolf named Ralph and an American crocodile named Lizzie have been infected too. With the help of a discredited genetic engineer named Dr. Kate Caldwell, he must save George, stop Ralph and Lizzie from destroying most of America, and find out who mutated the animals.
In an after credits scene, Davis is approached by Dr. Ishiro Serizawa who tells Davis that there are still many mutated monsters across the world. He asks Davis that George can potentially help the company Monarch in destroying these monsters.
Production:
Warner Bros. acquired the film adaptation rights to the 1986 arcade game Rampage in 2009, as part of their acquisition of Midway Games for $33 million. The project was announced in November 2011, with John Rickard set as the producer.in June 2015, Deadline reported that Dwayne Johnson was set to star and re-team with New Line and producer Beau Flynn, while studio was looking for a director to start production in the mid-2016. In July, it was reported that New Line was in talks with director Brad Peyton to direct and produce. Peyton would later state that the film would "be a lot more emotional, a lot scarier and a lot more real than you'd expect. Between January and July 2017, the rest of the supporting cast was assembled.
Filming:
Principal photography on the film began on April 17, 2017 in Chicago, Illinois. The film also shot in Atlanta, Georgia.
Box office:
In the United States and Canada, Rampage will be released alongside Truth or Dare and Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero, as well as the wide expansion of Isle of Dogs, and is projected to gross $35–40 million from 3,950 theaters in its opening weekend.
Rampage English Movie Offcial Trailer (2018):
Cast:
- Dwayne Johnson as Davis Okoye, a primatologist and head of an anti-poaching unit out of Rwanda.
- Naomie Harris as Dr. Kate Caldwell, a discredited genetic engineer who teams up with Okoye.
- Malin Åkerman as Claire Wyden, the woman responsible for the infection and mutation of George, Ralph, and Lizzie with the mutagenic serum for Project: Rampage.
- Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Harvey Russell, a government agent who works for an agency called OGA.
- Jake Lacy as Brett Wynden, Claire’s dimwit brother
- Joe Manganiello as Burke, the leader of a private military group
- Marley Shelton as Dr. Kerry Atkins, a scientist and astronaut
- P. J. Byrne as Nelson, a scientist and friend of Okoye.
- Demetrius Grosse as Colonel Blake
- Jack Quaid as Connor
- Breanne Hill as Amy
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