‘Rampage’ Came to Have Fun and Get These One-Liners Off

Rampage is not as bad as you think it is going to be. The movie is hands down a video game adventure, that knows it’s a gimmicky trope. It has no boundaries in its inception, nor execution. Everything goes, including starting the movie in an illegal testing facility in space. Yup – in space. I’ll try to hold off on the spoilers because I actually genuinely want people to see this flick. After our outer space adventure that results in weaponized gases hurling to Earth, we are met by a misfit group of zoologists checking in on the gorilla enclosure at the San Diego Zoo. With a very obnoxious white boy talking about how the walk, “takes him right back to his days in Uganda.” The hilarious thing is, we know the lines were written to exaggerate the white savior braggadocio – but sadly it was not too far off from reality. Our hero, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson – oh…should I not say “The Rock” anymore? Well, he’s still built that way. (Take a glance at the cover photo one mo’ time.) Dwayne Johnson playing Davis Okoye (cough Dora Milaje name cough) calls the white panderer out on his bullshit, which immediately sets you up for the campy feel of this flick. Right away, you know this movie is going to have completely unrealistic relationships and action movie nonsense for sure – outside of the fact that there is a monstrous, skyscraper-sized gorilla, alligator, and wolf running through the film.

The story follows the rare albino gorilla “George” in the San Diego zoo, who was saved from…