Review of Rampage (2009) by Fred — 28 Jun 2010
For those of you not familiar with Uwe Boll and his films, you've probably picked up one of his films in Blockbuster at some point and gone 'Nah, that looks crap'. Well there's not much new here. Again showing some fantastic timing, we have a young loon from a small town who decides to go on a killing spree with some automatic weapons.
He's fully suited to protect his body and his identity, and he methodically takes down all those who've wronged him in the smallest of ways. The quote on the cover compares it to Elephant and Falling Down, but Boll is too simplistic a writer and director for that ever to be true. From what I've seen of his films, Boll doesn't deal with subtext; what you see is what you get. There's no satire here, no deep sociological message about the failures of the school systems or gun control. At best it's a worrying wish fulfillment fantasy for sociopaths, at worst it's a call to arms.
Unfortunately, this is still probably Boll's best film, but if this is the kind of crap he's going to keep churning out he deserves to sink to the bottom of the straight to DVD shitpile along with Steven Seagal.
This review of Rampage (2009) was written by Fred on 28 Jun 2010.
Rampage has generally received mixed reviews.
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