The rest of the cast is along for the ride. At best, however, it’s a hit-and-miss enterprise. The story, injected with the requisite humorous, throw-away one-liners from a team of four screenwriters, is meant to be fun. From there, it’s on like Donkey Kong.ĭirector Brad Peyton, a filmmaker who’s collaborated with Johnson on several occasions, including the disaster film San Andreas, deserves credit for not taking his material too seriously. Kate Caldwell (Naomie Harris), has been trying unsuccessfully to thwart Energyne’s brother-sister CEOs - Brett and Claire Wyden (Jake Lacy and Malin Akerman) - only to find herself unemployed after serving a prison sentence, courtesy of the duo.īut even as Caldwell attempts to put her fractured life back together, when she sees news reports of George the gigantic ape and, eventually, the wolf, she seeks out Okoye in an effort to try to help. The result: gigantism, enhanced abilities and a mean streak. After a disaster in space (this flick’s got everything) where the samples come plummeting to Earth, George, a wolf and alligator in the wild, all get infected. However, George and David’s lives get flipped courtesy of an experiment in genetic editing going whack. He’s the type who prefers animals to people. Having rescued George from poachers, Okoye brought him to the United States where the former special ops soldier acts as scientist and guardian. He works at a San Diego primate refuge and his best friend is George, a rather large albino gorilla. Johnson stars as primatologist David Okoye. How many Godzilla flicks have made their way into pop culture and cinematic lore in the past 60 years? Plenty. That, however, doesn’t condemn the movie entirely. The ultimate result: complete and utter silliness. In this case, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, who loved the video game that the film is based, receives the opportunity to take this scant story of giant monsters duking it out on the streets of Chicago and build an entire flick around it. Rampage is what happens when a superstar actor has the clout to take a pet project and release it onto the screen.
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