Rampage

Rampage is a 2018 American science fiction monster film, loosely based on the video game series of the same name by Midway Games.

Matt Abboud, Staff Writer

Rampage is a 2018 American science fiction monster film, loosely based on the video game series of the same name by Midway Games.

Athena-1, a research space station owned by gene manipulation company Energyne, is destroyed after a laboratory rat mutates and wreaks havoc. A crew member, Dr. Kerry Atkins (Marley Shelton), is ordered to retrieve research canisters containing a pathogen by CEO Claire Wyden (Malin Akerman). Atkins is able to flee in the escape pod, but it disintegrates upon reentry, killing her and leaving a trail of debris across the United States, including the Everglades, where a canister is consumed by a crocodile and a forest in Wyoming where a wolf is exposed to the pathogen.

Primatologist Davis Okoye (Dwayne Johnson), a former US Army Special Forces soldier and member of an anti-poaching unit, is a primatologist in a San Diego wildlife preserve. He befriends a rare albino gorilla named George (Jason Liles), whom he saved from poachers. One night, as Davis drives home from work, one of the canisters crash lands in George’s habitat, exposing him to the pathogen.

George grows considerably larger and aggressive overnight. Davis is contacted by Dr. Kate Caldwell (Naomie Harris), a genetic engineer who explains that the pathogen was developed by Energyne to rewrite genes on a massive scale. She had hoped to advance CRISPR research as a potential cure for a disease, but discovered that Energyne planned to use it as a biological weapon. The company fired her and sent her to prison for attempting to expose them. George escapes from captivity and goes on a rampage at the preserve. Davis calms him down but George is captured by a government team led by Agent Harvey Russell (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and is put on a plane.

The animals having been engineered to respond aggressively to a certain sound frequency, Claire uses a massive transmitter to lure them to Chicago, hoping to capture Ralph the giant wolf in Wyoming then use George to kill Kate so they can cover up their plans. George reacts violently to the sound and crashes the plane. Davis, Kate and Agent Russell manage to parachute from the plane before it crashes. George, who survived the crash, joins Ralph as they make their way to Chicago and Davis and Kate steal a helicopter and Davis goes to the city to save his friend and all of mankind.

The director of the film is Brad Peyton, who did an incredible job on this movie, also another director who broke the curse of a bad video game movie. Peyton has a lot of experience making movies such as San Andreas, Frontier, Journey 2 and Black Hole under his belt, made sure to make Rampage the best movie in the world because with the variety of camera shots, the CGI of the giant animals and the great actors and actresses. Rampage had an amazing cast from Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson who participate in San Andreas, Central Intelligence,  Jumanji:welcome to the Jungle also other amazing actors and actresses like Jeffrey Dean Morgan who acted in Watchmen,Solace and in the Walking Dead, Breanne Hill who was involved in San Adrenas and Incarnate, Joe Manganiello who acted in The Spiderman movies and Sabotage, Naomie Harris who played a part in Skyfall and Collateral Beauty, Malin Akerman who acted in Watchmen and Couples Retreat and Jake Lacy who was in Love the Coopers and Johnny English Strikes Again.

Ramage did an amazing job in the box offices with earning $151,453,093 in the box offices and receiving 50% on the Tomatometer and 81% Audience Score on Rottentomatoes.com because of the amazing work that was put in this movie from the action of giant evolved animals destroying the city of Chicago to the actors and actresses interacting with each as the characters in the movie.