Rampage (2018 film)

For those video game geeks who remember their childhood, they'd probably remembered the cult classic building-bashing video game called Rampage by Midway (now WB Games). The first game starred monsters such as George, Lizzie, and Ralph and what players do is destroy all buildings and eat humans. That was the goal of the Rampage games and while we really do miss the Rampage games, this movie adaptation wants viewers to remember the good old days of playing the Rampage game but that's what they want us to believe.

Rampage (2018 film)

Starring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Naomie Harris, Malin Akerman, Joe Manganiello, Jake Lacy, Marley Shelton, and The Walking Dead's Jeffrey Dean Morgan, this film is loosely based on the cult classic video game series of the same name. In this film, Dwayne plays the role of a primatologist who teams up with an albino gorilla named George, who was been mutated into a giant monster by some top-secret experiment, as they are trying to save the world against heavily mutated beasts such as a wolf named Ralph and a crocodile named Lizzie.

The Rock pretty is no stranger to action-adventure flicks. He once trying to survive the powerful earthquake in San Andreas, exploring an unknown island in Journey 2, being a lifeguard in the Baywatch movie, and most famously, being a video game character in last year's Jumanji film, but in this monster movie, looks like his on-screen appearance got overshadowed by the monsters because this is what Rampage is all about. Seeing our memorable video game mutant monsters destroying cities like every monster movie you know, it really takes us back at the time you pair up with a buddy to play as their favorite monsters destroying the world, but even though is great to see the original Rampage monsters come to life in this film, this film is way too much exaggeration for an action thriller flick, underachieving for a movie based on a video game series, and downright scary to watch.

The producers are trying very hard to show the video game community if they still remember the Rampage games with this film but by such standards, it was good at first but it wasn't really make the cut to appeal the moviegoers and gamers alike.

Would Warner Bros want to bring back the Rampage video games? Well, after you saw this film, it's everybody's guess.

My rating: 3.4 out of 5.