Review of Rampage (2018) by Moelesterjr — 07 Aug 2018

Whenever a movie has even the smallest flaw, it becomes easier to criticize because you can easily come with why you did not like it. A flawless picture, on the other hand, it's a bit tricky. All you do is praise its qualities saying something along the lines of "a deep, emotional masterpiece" but that does not sound very argumentative. But it is how it is, so please indulge me while I try to pick myself up from the misery of this movie's greatness.

Brad Peyton and his peers, especially screenwriter Ryan Engle took a progressive tone, slowly unraveling the love between the 46-year-old huge musclehead Dwayne and 24-feet-tall albino gorilla called George. Yet despite this progression being noticeable pretty quickly, it never fails to touch you (no pun intended) on an testosteron level, with every explosion being delivered like Michael Bay delivers his farts.

Indeed, EXPLOSIONS and HUGE MONSTERS is what drives this movie, and Peyton's favourite weapons to unleash it are the EXPLOSIONS and most of all, the HUGE FKIN GORILLA. The fact that this takes place in San Diego/Chicago during summer allows for the landscape to become fkin hot. Indeed, every EXPLOSION, MONSTER or simple MUSCLE FLEXIN is augmented by occasionally filming characters from afar, letting the nature take the spotlight. And it is worthy of the spotlight, as "nature has cunning ways of finding our weakest spots".

But even smaller elements of nature are presented often through symbolism, like the scene in which Dwayne fights a huge fkin mutated alligator. Its a sexual scene, but is also more complex than it look at first glance, as the alligator represents Lacoste, swag and Dwayne represents every person who wants to be cool.

But, this is till a coming-of-age story and Dwayne's frustration with sexuality unfolds through a beautiful yet heartbreaking search of a fkin HUGE gorilla. This, indeed, is not a film which glorifies and attempts to make us accept fkin HUGE MONSTERS, but a heartwarming, subtle, touching (see, I told you I would fall into the misery) and deep story about how to destroy a fkin city with the aid of a HUGE fkin gorilla , a flying wolf and the biggest fkin alligator i've ever seen . Arguably the best of the year.