Rampage (2009)
Uwe Boll, the man who has made crap into his own artform, usually makes only two kinds of movies, horribly bad ones or very rarely those which turn out to be so bad that they are hilarious. This one however was neither. It's horribly shot, it's rather badly acted, it's completely morally wrong, it's direction seems a bit lost at times, it's full of plot holes and idiotic actions, yet it's not a bad movie. The premise of the movie actually promised quite a bit more than the movie finally delivered, but the way it takes is not a bad one either. At least I didn't see that big twist coming until a few scenes before it actually happens. Now for sure it waters down the striking and thought provoking start of the "rampage" but it turns the movie into a whole different track which is actually good for it. It kind of saves it a bit from becoming a moral train wreck where it clearly was going. So I have to admit Uwe Boll has actually stumbled into a quite a brilliant idea here. Too bad he can't use it to it's full potential and kind of loses track with it too often. Even though at parts the movie is quite painful to watch with the bad camera work, tedious repetitive editing and not very good acting, it's still worth to sit through it. These kind of movies are quite hard to review, I mean when you have a bad movie but the ending saves it and makes the rest of the movie actually feel better. I'm going to rate it based on the feeling it left me with, just be warned that getting there might not be easy.
70%
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