Rampage

Wow.

I came across RAMPAGE on Netflix on Demand and fired it up. I saw it was a UWE BOLL film and was looking forward to a complete piece of crap.

In another review somewhere, I recall defending the Uew Boll atrocities. The guy gets absolutely no respect, and he keeps financing movies and making them anyway. Somehow, he gets big name actors. The guy must really love movies; my naive intuition leads me the believe he is the ultimate fanboy.

If I recall a story correctly, he challenged people to shut up and help improve a movie rather than bash it, and no one took him up on it. I'd take him up on it without hesitation, if only I mattered.

Enough of that.

I was completely enthralled with Rampage like few movies have ever enthralled me. It's very intense and very well done.

When I rate crappy movies, I rate them as crappy movies. Last week I saw 2 crappy movies and gave them both 4s because they were great crappy movies. The numbers are relative to what they are.

RAMPAGE isn't an excellent crappy movie. It's an excellent movie, without any qualifiers. I sat there and stared at it, with unwaiving commitment, for 85 minutes.

Did you see United 93? Tense, right? It's a tense movie about a very disturbing subject matter. When it was over, I clapped. A guy asked me why I was clapping. I asked him why he wasn't. I was clapping because it was a good movie, and the heroism at the end. I assume he didn't clap because a lot of poeple died in a terrorist attach. It all depends how you look at it.

Rampage is similar. It's not a good subject matter. It's not something you root for. The potential reality of it is horrifying. It's completely messed up, and unlike United 93, there isn't a hero to clap for no matter how you look at it.

But, Snoopy as my witness, I couldn't take my eyes off it. I'm very rarely fixated on anything I watch.