Rampage

Brad Peyton’s monster movie stars Dwayne Johnson and Naomie Harris as scientists confronting gigantic, genetically modified predators.

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In the right moments, Brad Peyton can stage a ceremoniously ludicrous set piece with grace and ease.

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Relentlessly silly 'Rampage' unleashes monster animals and Dwayne Johnson

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“That’s a big arm,” says Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, putting an adversary in a sleeper hold. “Don’t fight it.”

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Dwayne Johnson finally gets a star to match his size if not charisma in the sometimes gloriously ludicrous “Rampage,” a movie based on a hit arcade game that was literally just larger-than-life monsters bashing buildings.

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Basically, he’s made a modern American version of classic Seventies and Eighties Kaiju (in knowing nods, megacroc Lizzie even has definite hints of Godzilla’s fellow beasts Anguirus and Biollante in the design).

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Dwayne Johnson's Rampage is a 'disaster' movie alright

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A shady technology company develops a process that turns innocent animals into giant killer monsters. Unfortunately, their serum infects the wrong animals, including the gorilla pal of zoologist Davis Okoye (Dwayne Johnson), putting the entire world at risk.

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When shady gene experiments in space go wrong, there’s only one man standing who can sign language in great ape

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Rampage is utterly ridiculous, campy, yet also self-aware enough to be kinda sorta dumb fun.

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Adaptation of old arcade favorite pits the star against mutated creatures – and quickly goes down the Dwayne

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Enormous beasts run amok in downtown Chicago, but plot and character are so much rubble here

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Rampage Has Dwayne Johnson. But That’s Not Enough to Save It

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Though far better than 'Doom,' this Dwayne Johnson-starring video-game adaptation falls back on the monster-movie clichés its source overtly lampooned.

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These Improbable Beasts (and the Rock) Deserve a Wilder Film Than “Rampage”

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Unlike Gareth Edwards’s Godzilla, which benefited from its Jaws-style slow burn, it’s all noise without crescendo.

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You know what might make an intriguing, revealing movie? The story of how, over 30 years after its debut, a relatively innocent arcade game starring a giant ape and other oversize beasts underwent a corporate transmogrification and became a turgid, logy sci-fi/action blockbuster.

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