Rampage (2009)

Simply A Masterpiece

Good movie but grossly overrated

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

I hate to be clichéd and write a one star review, but this movie was F**king horrid. First off not even counting the awful technical aspects, this movie is devoid of any feeling other than pretentiousness and weak a** characters. The main "protagonist" has no motivation to commit anything in the film, (the film maker throws in fear mongering audio montages in place of motivation and depth). The technical aspects are just as weak as the characters, its like it's shot on an early 2000s quality hand-held camera, the quality of picture changes from shot to shot (480p to 720p). and the action is horribly chopped up. This is disgusting and is only made for shock value, If you gave a depressed violent teenager "going through a phase" a camera, this would be the result. weak story, weak characters, weak direction, and pretentious symbolism to make even college art film students roll their eyes.

Okay, first of all, I had to write this review because I came to IMDb expecting to see a beautiful pile of hatred towards this film. I have no earthly idea how most of the reviews of this movie are positive, so let's just get all this misinformation cleared up:This film is AWFUL. It's DIABOLICALLY BAD. It is a BIG SH*TTY STINKING PILE OF DOG SH*T. This movie is the biggest middle finger to anyone who ever thought of cinema as a form of artistic expression. As someone who likes good movies and hopefully will get to write movies someday, I can honestly say that this is one of the most offensive things I've ever seen.I'm not gonna be talking about this film's completely backwards 'moral', which is basically misunderstanding the phrase 'survival of the fittest' and contorting it to mean 'kill everybody because they're all part of THE SYSTEM and they don't follow MY BELIEFS'. I just want to talk about this film on a technical level.Now, I sort of see what it's trying to go for. It's sort of the protagonist/antagonist setup that a lot of crime movies have, where the main character would normally be the bad guy. The one thing this movie doesn't understand, however, is that if you want the audience to feel anything for your main character, you have to make them have ANY kind of redeeming qualities, or be justified in the horrible things they do. This movie's main character (even before he goes on a killing spree for no real reason) is a COMPLETE ASSHOLE to EVERYONE. And that wouldn't be such a bad thing if it was a Walter White scenario, but this movie is clearly acting like you should be rooting for this guy. Why should i put myself into the shoes of this guy when i actively want to see him dead?And even without the horrible characters and the broken morality, this would still be a complete mess. The cinematography is dreadful, just more shaky cam sh*t to the point where the screen is just a blur of color and you can't even see the action, The colors and sound are incredibly dull, and APPARENTLY according to the trivia section, this whole movie was improvised. And it REEEEAAALLY shows. The dialogue and acting are horrendous and the scenes make no sense because the whole thing was done on the spot without any direction. Please, don't see this movie. Not just for your safety, but for the safety of World Famous Manchild Uwe Boll, one of the worst directors in human history.

85 minutes of boredom guaranteed when watching this. I know very little about the director except that he is known for making under average movies. Well this one certainly falls into that category. Story is very simple and basic (something 10 year old would come up with), acting is poor and it just doesn't have any appeal whatsoever. There's not much to say about this film because there is not much happening. And what is happening? A boy builds an armour, orders some guns and goes for rampage and that's it! no really that is it. There's no other story to it, there's hardly any emotions. I couldn't care less about any characters, so people getting massacred didn't really upset me because how bad the film was. Stay away from it, it's not even funny bad it's just distasteful and boring.

Film in the first place - is unique in its "habitat." Unique cinema from Uwe Boll, who often makes films far from universally accepted rules and stereotypes there every ... This work, I believe, so far - his best creation. The plot is based on the idea that supposedly could really splash out in real life and in a sense, what happens, but in a different format. We, Uwe Boll and screenwriter, showed that this version of events. Influence on which justified the influence of the same "wrong" of the world, which often introduces some people, in a figurative sense, in its specific FURY, FURY. Each different and someone just keeps playing on existing rules of life, adjusting and adapting to this environment live in their role and playing it. But here we see that the director and writer, show that there are people who absolutely do not want to succumb to the standards of conventional thinking. And they start looking for their way of life, which is different from the standards, and find themselves in critical thinking other that the rejection based on their confirmation and often categorically unacceptable for the average person. The final result which can be extremely unpredictable. That the director showed us in his version. In this sense - is a unique cinema. This creature trumpeted good enough level. The only drawback, although I know Uwe Boll does not think so, namely - is cruelty and barbarism, which is shown to us, although it is reasonable reflections of the protagonist, or, - the script. This film - a film example of this embodiment, and explanation of the events that could occur suddenly in our real world, behind the camera and games. And sometimes occur if occur. More as an option for consideration.