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2018 · action · adventure · sci-fi · disaster

Rampage

Directed by Brad Peyton1h 47m2018
ElsewhereIMDb6.1201kRT51%Metacritic45
  • kinetic
  • extreme
  • inventive
  • epic-stakes
Movie DNA

Neutral, breathless, extreme action / adventure, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Primatologist Davis Okoye shares an unshakable bond with George, the extraordinarily intelligent, silverback gorilla who has been in his care since birth. But a rogue genetic experiment gone awry mutates this gentle ape into a raging creature of enormous size. To make matters worse, it’s soon discovered there are other similarly altered animals. As these newly created alpha predators tear across North America, destroying everything in their path, Okoye teams with a discredited genetic engineer to secure an antidote, fighting his way through an ever-changing battlefield, not only to halt a global catastrophe but to save the fearsome creature that was once his friend.

Our read · Rampage (2018) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive action · adventure · sci-fi entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want Dwayne Johnson buddy-bonding with a giant gorilla amid city-smashing chaos.

ends triumphantyou’ll be fine aftergrabs you earlygrips by minute 5attention 2/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upgraphic violenceanimal harm

Skip it tonightYou need smarter monster movies than arcade-game destruction with a wink.

If Rampage is your film
Kong: Skull Island (2017)
Kong as sympathetic giant in lush setting
(You want modern cities not jungle)
Godzilla (2014)
Monarch-era kaiju scale and military awe
(You want primate friendship not lizards)
Pacific Rim (2013)
Joyful giant-creature city brawls
(You want one ape not jaegers)
DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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