Rampage ( 2009 )

Starring:  Brendan Fletcher, Shaun Sipos, Matt Frewer, Lynda Boyd, & Michael Paré

Directed By Uwe Boll

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1337057/


     Uwe Boll, you finally shut the masses up.  Despite the other Horrible movies by Uwe ( Alone In The Dark, House Of The Dead, & Bloodrayne to name a few) There were some decent ones that got overlooked just because of the name attached to the directors chair.  Postal & Seed are prime examples of how Uwe can just say Fuck It, and let the film speak for itself.  Rampage is another example of that with it's story, amount of violence, and humor needed to sell the whole film.

     Rampage is the story of Bill Williamson and his thirst for revenge against almost anything he comes into contact with.  While mom and dad try to convince him to leave the house and move into a place of his own Bill just smiles and acts like things are OK.  About the only thing that seemed to piss him off was the guy at the Mocha joint who chinced him on extra foam.  Even when bill's buddy Evan flips out on a ditzy worker at a burger joint, Bill just seems to smile and pass it off. Or so it seemed.

     Without anybody knowing Bill constructs himself a body suit out of an armor plating, heads into town, and proceeds to gun down, blow up, and all but destroy anything that gets into his way.  Rampage at times gave me a light chill because of the similarities of the rash of School Shootings in the late 90's and early 2000's.  A gunman premeditating his strike and carrying out with eerie precision while chaos ensues is a very real threat, and was displayed with an unflinching self in Rampage.

     All of the violence was nothing compared to the bingo parlor scene.  I don't know what was more funny:  The fact that a vengeful guy in armor plating was mowing down people at will outside, but once he steps into the bingo parlor nobody seems to care that he's there, or even takes notice long enough to look up.  I guess the cards were more important than a madman decked to the nines with guns and armor.

     Overall I think Rampage will go down as one of Uwe's better outings, and I hope he can sustain this level of filmmaking for a bit instead of putting out the those awful video game adaptations.

-Mr. What?- ( * * * )