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Rampage (2009) - starring Brendan Fletcher 9.5/10

06/25/2010

Other Reviews: SlashFilm | Variety.com | Rotten Tomatoes

This movie started off slow. Real slow. But it is worth it. I would definitely recommend this to just about anybody. It's not too bloody and gorey, which is good. I don't mind a lot of gore, but so many people do that it's worth mentioning.

This movie is almost a psychological thriller, though IMDb.com (Internet Movie Database) has it genre'd into Action, Crime and Drama. It walks you through one day in his life where he hears things like "70 million people come into the world every year and they are sucking up our resources" and "you're a prodigy of the world." Mix that with a few bad run-ins with the parents, coffee shop, fast food chicken place, an already unstable mind could be given a slight nudge into temporary insanity. As SlashFilm.com said, "It is Grand Theft auto with real people."

It portrays the feeling of a group of people that we are all just "drops in a bucket" and, therefore, we are all worthless along with the ego we all carry (yet some can't keep in check) that seems to fly right in the face of that worldview and mixes them to bring home one statement: "You're money is just as worthless as you are. So I'm going to fix it." Be ready to decide your own moral stance, because this movie poses a moral question and leaves it up to you to answer it.

It's put together in a very clever way. The order of events work out so well that it is believable that this could, in just the right kind of small town, actually happen. Which could (and maybe should?) strike fear into the heart of us all.

Very well done, Uwe Boll (director). I might be looking up more of your movies.


Did I like the movie? Yes.


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Sweet! I loved this movie. Some of Uwe Boll's movies are just unwatchable...some are just insane.

I was fascinated with this one though...and the ending was just....crazy. I mean, it was SO simple you don't even think about it. And the fact he got away with it was just...WOW! And yeah, it's scary just how easy it WOULD be to pull something like this off.

[Music God Of BloopStar|0 likes] [|reply]

RYC: Yeah, Uwe is sort of an enigma. Sometimes his stuff will surprise you...and then there are some, like Bloodrayne II that you just want to scream cuz the camera work is SO horrid.

Postal is pretty good though. And Stoic is interesting once you get past the first 20 minutes or so. Seed would be AMAZING if the dude would have used a lighting rig...but it's SOOOO dark in parts that you literally just see a black screen with background noises.

[Music God Of BloopStar|0 likes] [|reply]

RYC: Ya know, he's one of the most HATED directors when it comes to movie reviewers...yet the same people seem to be in almost ALL of his films. I know Michael Pare is in like...EVERYTHING. LOL There's 4-5 others as well.

From what I know, he self finances them. I believe his family is pretty rich. I know he has a Ph.D in Literature and runs his own Film Company in Germany.

[Music God Of BloopStar|0 likes] [|reply]

RYC: He does the "pathetic loser" bit pretty well. He was "Nite Owl/Dan Dreiberg" in Watchmen, which is where I pretty much fell in love with him. He was in Little Children w/Kate Winslet.

[Aubrey;Star|0 likes] [|reply]

RYC: Oh yeah! Can't wait to see what you think of Watchmen.

[Aubrey;Star|0 likes] [|reply]

RYC: Yes! Totally watch it right now! Lol, I loved it, but I couldn't get anyone else into it. None of my friends like anything with too much violence. My 13 year old brother, however, loved it. Depends on what you're into.

[Aubrey;Star|0 likes] [|reply]

I think I missed reading this review, but this one sounds good, too. Putting it on my own list, for sure.

[Aubrey;Star|0 likes] [|reply]

heh, our reviews really ARE different, i was "meh" about this one.

[That Girl Who Watche|0 likes] [|reply]

RYC:: oh wow, never thought of that actually! a great point!

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