Rampage (2018)

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  Elmntsofmadness

  5 / 10

  Adapting video games for film tends to underwhelm at the box office. It either takes a straight-forward premise and mucks it up (poor besmirched "Super Mario Bros.") or largely misunderstands what made the game fun (this includes you "Street Fighter"). While these films can be enjoyed on some level, the list of video game films that largely miss the mark is exhaustive. When Warner Bros Pictures announced an adaptation of Bally Midway’s 1986 classic arcade game "Ramage", well – let’s just say hopes were not high. Impressively, the Brad Peyton-directed ("San Andreas") action is about as straight-forward as the original game and the tweaks actually make sense within this fictional world. On the whole, "Rampage" is good, silly fun, yet its reluctance to focus on the monsters and its reliance on star Dwayne Johnson ("Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle") to carry the film, makes for a predictable time at the movies.
  
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