Rampage
New Line Cinema | Release Date: April 13, 2018 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 46 Critic Reviews
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80
The TelegraphRobbie CollinApr 11, 2018
Keeps playing its two winning cards over and over again, and is smart enough to realise they are more than enough. The first is the giant animal carnage itself, which crackles with fun ideas and flourishes throughout. The second is the comic chemistry of a superbly picked cast who bring everyone in on the joke. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleApr 12, 2018
What makes Rampage especially enjoyable is the way it sneaks up on the audience. Before casting off every shred of dignity and abandoning itself to good-humored excess, the movie passes itself off as a reasonably serious science-fiction movie. Read full review
72
The VergeTasha RobinsonApr 11, 2018
The filmmakers try to innovate largely by making the movie as toothless and easily digestable as possible. Nothing in the film is real enough to care about past the moment, or serious enough to trouble audience’s sleep. Maybe in a world that’s already full of real-life disasters, it’s innovative enough to make monumental destruction this much dumb, lightweight fun. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterJustin LoweApr 11, 2018
It takes some time for the action sequences to fully engage, but from about the movie’s midpoint, Peyton delivers a succession of staggering set pieces. Read full review
67
Austin ChronicleRichard WhittakerApr 11, 2018
This crazy-gleeful adventure jumps between grisly and cartoonish. Read full review
67
The A.V. ClubA.A. Dowd Apr 11, 2018
Johnson’s singular charisma—his way with a one-liner, the built-in special effect of his unreal physique—grounds Rampage in a consistent personality, even as the tone veers wildly from broadly comic to selectively sentimental to casually horrifying. Read full review
63
RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoApr 13, 2018
When Johnson is doing that movie action star thing he does so well and giant animals are going enormous-mano-a-enormous-mano, there’s undeniably goofy fun to be had. You just have to be patient during the downtime. Read full review
63
New York PostSara StewartApr 11, 2018
It’s big, bloated, and, if you give in to the familiar charms of its jacked leading man, not unenjoyable. (Alternately, you could easily just let it induce a little nap.) Read full review
63
Boston GlobeTom RussoApr 11, 2018
The engaging dynamic between our hero and his gargantuan, computer-generated pal is the movie’s best surprise, with silly and straight bits both working mostly as intended for director Brad Peyton (Johnson’s “Journey 2” and “San Andreas”). Read full review
63
The Seattle TimesMoira MacdonaldApr 11, 2018
Only two things need to be said about Rampage: It’s really terrible, and I enjoyed it immensely. Read full review
63
USA TodayBrian TruittApr 11, 2018
Per usual, Johnson is the key cog of a movie built for his physical presence, but it's the relationship between Davis and George that fuels the plot, even when everything around them gets convoluted and haphazard. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranApr 12, 2018
Not that you would anyway, but it doesn't pay to think too hard about "Rampage." Sure, it could be improved (shorter would have helped), but it gets the job done in a more or less acceptable way. Not the highest praise, but things could have been worse. Read full review
60
Total FilmJordan FarleyApr 11, 2018
Rampage was always going to be the cinematic equivalent of junk food – enjoyable enough while consumed, but devoid of nourishment. When the homo sapiens are on screen, you can feel the film start to flatline but, against the odds, a computer-generated gorilla might just win you over. Read full review
60
The GuardianPeter BradshawApr 11, 2018
It is entertainingly over the top, although perhaps the CGI work isn’t quite out of the top drawer. Read full review
60
EmpireOlly RichardsApr 11, 2018
Ridiculous, of course, but not as ridiculous as it might have been. As much fun as it has with the idea of animals stomping cities to rubble, it seems shy of going completely over the top, and it’s the poorer for it. Read full review
60
ScreenCrushMatt SingerApr 11, 2018
Rampage won’t set the world on fire (our world, at least; it sets plenty of its world on fire when George and his two giant pals arrive in Chicago), but it does exactly what it says on the tin: It’s a big, goofy romp about creatures who lay waste to a major American city while the Rock cracks jokes in a light brown shirt. Read full review
60
Time OutJoe McGovernApr 11, 2018
Morgan's performance is a gem of comic timing and audience-directed winks. He elevates a movie that’s mostly about watching stuff get stomped down. Read full review
55
IGNJim VejvodaApr 11, 2018
Rampage doesn’t really offer much of anything new as a giant monster movie, a video game adaptation, or a Dwayne Johnson vehicle, but it still checks all the boxes expected from it, offering one just enough entertainment value to not make you completely hate it. Read full review
50
VoxAlissa WilkinsonApr 12, 2018
It’s both a blindingly predictable pastiche of an action movie — absolutely nothing happens here that you haven’t seen in a movie before, with the possible exception of some crass sign-language humor from a giant gorilla — and weirdly charming. Read full review
50
St. Louis Post-DispatchCalvin WilsonApr 12, 2018
Clearly, this is a star vehicle — and the eminently likable Johnson is unquestionably a star. Through sheer force of personality, he elevates Rampage into something reasonably entertaining. Read full review
50
Rolling StonePeter TraversApr 12, 2018
It's easy to root for George. The movie deserves the finger. Read full review
50
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliApr 12, 2018
The problem with Rampage is that it’s not content to be mindless fun. There’s too much exposition and too many needless human villains. Plus, the tone is more lugubrious than the flippancy suggested by the trailers. Read full review
50
The PlaylistWill AshtonApr 11, 2018
In the right moments, Brad Peyton can stage a ceremoniously ludicrous set piece with grace and ease. It’s easy to follow the nonsense found in the last act thanks to his assured hand, and you can tell that he is having an absolute ball with its silliness. If only we could share in that enthusiasm for its tedious first two acts. Read full review
50
Screen DailyTim GriersonApr 11, 2018
The gargantuan critters are dwarfed only by the derivativeness in Rampage, a clunky spectacle that, like many Dwayne Johnson vehicles, is elevated by his charismatic presence but not enough to recommend it. Read full review
46
Paste MagazineWill LeitchApr 18, 2018
This is a ridiculous movie without much desire or energy to get too ridiculous. Read full review
42
Entertainment WeeklyChris NashawatyApr 11, 2018
It never makes up its mind whether it wants to be a what-hath-science-wrought disaster movie like those old John Sayles cheapie classics Piranha and Alligator, or just a big, dumb, and loud tongue-in-cheek action comedy. It’s a movie that’s afraid to pick a lane. Read full review
40
Vanity FairRichard LawsonApr 25, 2018
The bulk of Rampage is, alas, a slog, as passionless as I’d imagine the fandom is for the I.P. the film is based on. Read full review
40
We Got This CoveredLuke ParkerApr 19, 2018
Rampage is noticeably in trouble once it becomes obvious that the giant virtual gorilla is the most human presence onscreen, and that doesn’t take too long. Read full review
40
Village VoiceAmy NicholsonApr 12, 2018
Compared to Rampage, King Kong and Godzilla have James Brown levels of soul. Peyton has just made another movie about the Rock running through rubble. Read full review
40
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzApr 12, 2018
Seriously, the movie is pretty awful, but Johnson, as ever, seems to be having a ball, even when he’s all serious and concerned and shot up and beaten up and building-dropped-upon. Read full review
40
TimeStephanie ZacharekApr 12, 2018
The movie is at its best when it’s sopping with sentimentality and when it goes right over the top in its depiction of dorky destruction. Everything in between is a drag. Read full review
40
New York Daily NewsStephen Whitty Apr 11, 2018
Some movies are feasts. Some films are desserts. This picture is cheese in a can, and if it only accepted that, it would be a lot more fun — like “Alligator,” the tongue-in-cheek classic that had a toothy terror climbing out of a city sewer. Read full review
40
VarietyPeter DebrugeApr 11, 2018
Peyton delivers a unified-looking whole, in which the visual effects integrate well with stage and location work. Read full review
40
TheWrapDan CallahanApr 11, 2018
Rampage is a movie that gets buried in its own top-heavy plot, collapsing itself under that weight just like the Chicago-area buildings do on screen. Read full review
38
The Associated PressJake CoyleApr 12, 2018
A hopelessly bland and bizarrely self-serious monster movie. Read full review
38
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperApr 12, 2018
Rampage might not be the worst movie of the year so far, but it’s a contender for most pointless. Read full review
38
Slant MagazineEric HendersonApr 11, 2018
Unlike 2014’s Godzilla, which benefited from director Gareth Edwards’s patience with the Jaws-style slow burn, RAMPAGE is all noise without crescendo. Read full review
38
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsApr 11, 2018
Rampage is a drag. Read full review
37
Washington PostKristen Page-KirbyApr 11, 2018
At times, Rampage almost hides its problems. It’s just funny enough, just exciting enough and just visually impressive enough. What it never is, though, is anything more than just enough. Read full review
33
ConsequenceDominick Suzanne-MayerApr 11, 2018
It’s the worst kind of ridiculous: not enough so to be memorably fun, but far too much so to be taken with any degree of gravitas. Read full review
25
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Kate TaylorApr 12, 2018
The plot is cursory, the dialogue is repetitive and the psychology is cheap. Hanging in for the wanton violence may prove too much for anyone not seriously addicted to the guilty pleasures of cheesy sci-fi. Read full review
25
Movie NationRoger MooreApr 11, 2018
It’s not convincing, not impressive, and after “Jumanji,” Johnson’s agents will probably never let him within a city block of Brad Peyton. Read full review
25
IndieWireDavid EhrlichApr 11, 2018
What does Rampage have? No satisfying action beats, no memorable images, and so little to say that it’s virtually impossible to say anything about it in return. It’s not a movie for critics, that much is clear. The problem is that it’s not for anyone else, either. Read full review
20
The AtlanticDavid SimsApr 13, 2018
Rampage is a big, noisy nothing—an action extravaganza that fails at being funny just as hard as it fails at being serious. Read full review
20
New York Magazine (Vulture)Emily YoshidaApr 11, 2018
I’m not terribly convinced that the overtly campy version of this film would be any better, but I’m very certain that this one is bad. Read full review
20
The New York TimesGlenn KennyApr 11, 2018
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. Read full review
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