 So recently we had Tomb Raider up to bat to see if it can break the curse that our video game movie sucked. While it had a valid attempt, pretty much safe to say right now that it struck out. But now we have Rainpaste on Dwayne Narok Johnson. So how did it turn out? Well, let's find out. My name is Brennan Keith-Avery and this is just my opinion. Hey what's good everyone. I want to thank you so much for tuning in to my opinion slash review for Rainpaste on Dwayne Narok Johnson. I really do appreciate it. So now we have Rainpage and I remember when I first saw the trailer for this movie a number of months ago I was like oh my gosh wow this is Rainpage. I remember this game way back in the day in the early 90s when I was a little kid. Of course this was an arcade game. I really don't remember this being on any game consoles like Nintendo, Sega Genesis or Atari or anything like that. I strictly remember this being an arcade game. Now to be honest with you I did not play the game that much but the times that I was at the arcade I do remember seeing a lot of other people, a lot of other kids my age, younger, older and all that good stuff playing this game and it was just about a bunch of random giant monsters that was all the size that would just come rushing to the city and just destroying everything in their sight building after building. I mean it was just a concept that really didn't make sense at all. So when you take that concept how are you going to be able to translate that over to a movie? Well the first thing you can do right is you know Cas Dwayne Narok Johnson and you know it's pretty obvious but he was pretty much the best thing of this movie. Like you know when I saw the trailers like I said I remember this when I was a little kid but I was not that excited about it. I was like oh my gosh you know I'm sure it'll make some money but this you know idea this concept does look stupid and you know I wish the studio would spend their money on other material. So when I was going into this I really had low expectations but you know when the film started off it started out you know running it didn't waste any time. You got a good sense of what was going on and that the technology and biology and things like that you know all the chemistry and makeup and you know this genetic thing and that genetic thing that is pretty serious and not anything that you want to mess around with. I mean very early on in the film you know they set the tone very well and let you know that there is an imminent threat coming and you know you better strap up or you're going to you know be in trouble. Now this movie is being directed by Brad Payton. If you're familiar with his work or not he has worked with The Rock before in 2015 with San Andreas. I did see that film and I did like it a lot of people give that film a hard time but you know for what it was I really did appreciate that film excuse me and something else that I really do appreciate with this film is you have the concept you know of the movie that you know monsters you know get infected with this biochemical weapon they're in laws that go to the city wreck shop destroy everything and we have to stop them. It's a very very simple plot you know in the actual video game it's a very it's even more simple in this movie but nothing is wrong with it. But while I just said I appreciated something something else that I do appreciate with this film besides the plot and the story just being so simple is that the substitute for that was giving you characters that you actually really care about and they actually take time to develop and I'm even talking about the monkeys or the animals I call them a monkey he's a gorilla let's talk about George the the white ape and the white ape or the white gorilla in the marketing material and the trailers in this movie he was freaking fantastic he has such a great relationship with the rock he felt like a real person he really just didn't feel like an animal and I think that's one reason because you know the the gorilla was able to do American sign language so we were able to you know get some type of dialogue from him instead of just a bunch of you know gorilla ape noises so that's just something I really didn't expect is having you know actually caring about the the George the gorilla something else that I found fascinating about George was the visual effects the CGI that went into developing him on screen it was freaking fantastic you know that's never that is something I always pay attention to but that's nothing that I went to this movie thinking that would stand out to me it's like oh I bet this movie is gonna have you know fantastic visual effects that's just nothing that crossed my mind when I was preparing for this movie but when I was actually sitting out watching it I was like you know wow you know they really did do a good job here and what I'm talking to you now I was trying to scroll through to see if I can find what what visual effects studio put this together were whether it was ILM industrial light and magic which is George Lucas's company I don't I can't remember if he sold it or not or whether what a digital those that's the visual effects company that did the CGI the visual effects works for the rebooted Planet of the Ape series that Andy Serkis is most popular for but you know the the effects were great there George was great Dwayne the Rod Johnson was great too he wasn't just some big you know hulking guy you know just in another action movie and you know when you think about it that possibly could get all but not with the rock I mean he's great in everything that he does and there's nothing different here he's great in this movie too another great cast remember I want to talk about that I thought was fantastically was named on me Harris now she first popped on the screen for on the scene for me I said screen on the scene for me I think it was in 2009 with her movie ninja assassin I'm a die hard martial arts fan and yeah niche her name was Mika in the film she did a great job there she did a great job in this film either she was more of the brains that was going on and she is a very very beautiful black chocolate sister from England that I would not mind getting to meet but she did a great job as well she was very smart in the role she was very intelligent I liked her dialogue and the last cast member that I want to list that was also very well is Jeffrey D. Morgan we all know him from Watchmen and of course right now he is Negan in the Walking Dead series which I do need to finish I'm on the last season right now I watched the first episode of the new season but I'm behind right now because I just kind of lost interest in the show but anyway Jeffrey D. Morgan isn't in this movie beating over animals or people in the head with Lucia with Baseball best rapper Bob Ryder his name is Harvey Russell and he works for one of these government agencies and you know he has pride and you can possibly understand how the rock will have pride too you know he's such a big dude and when these two men are you know going face to face trying to have like a penis measuring contest you know it's funny then that that's typical we always get that type of interaction between men you know and uh two big men prominent men and films like this and so that can get oh either but no the film itself is somewhat self-aware and kind of makes fun of itself and they also kind of throw in Naomi Harrison the scene right here too where you know they're both kind of just you know trying to you know see you know who's the toughest things like that and I like the dialogue that is going back and forth in between these two and the attic the added humor that Naomi Harris was able to deliver as well but I said humor that's another great thing about this film is it's funny and I am a stickler when it comes to comedy and movies and action movies like you can throw in many jokes as you want as long as you don't ruin serious moments I'm really not a big fan of jokes doing serious moments while people are engaging in battle in the middle of war in the middle of a showdown or something like that and that's nothing that you have to worry about with this film rempage the humor is you know it lands when it needs to is very clean is very funny I laughed out I didn't just chuckle I remember one time in particular I was one of the loudest people in the theater you know I wasn't trying to be obnoxious or anything like that but the joke was funny you know I laugh my behind off now another thing about this this is an action adventure you know kind of fantasy science fiction and action adventure science fiction you could throw fantasy in there as well and when it comes to movies like this I get really annoyed when there is a forced romance going on and you could possibly imagine that that would happen between the rocks character and his name by the way is David Okoye he is a primatologist his name is David Okoye he has an unsurable relationship with George the intelligent gorilla which I was talking about before that but back to my point what I was saying was you could possibly imagine that there would be some type of forced romance or chemistry in between Naomi Harris and Dwayne Jaroc Johnson but while there is chemistry in between their characters there is also a dash of romance but I like the perfect amount that they add to the film because they don't shove it down your face and they're not just making out and kissing or anything like that for no damn reason you know just you know just for the hell of it I will say that there was not enough time in this movie for their relationship to develop however if there was not a you know big months not month well big animals you know thrashing the city I could see them these two characters if in this movie if they were real that they could possibly you know go on a date or and you know maybe hit something off I mean you know you just had that you know that chemistry there but at the same time you know I bring that up because usually if that's the case you know sometimes director or the writer of a film or project they'll force some romance in he's like is there really time to be making out right now or confessing you'll love each other when you know Chicago is at stake right now what means people could possibly die you know we don't have enough time for that in the film recognize that and didn't do that so that's just another thing that that I do appreciate again I'll just talk about the dialogue again in this movie because it is pretty fun I like people that use their brains I like smart characters of course everybody does and for the most part in this movie we know when things are you know getting kind of heavy and heated you know people do listen to reason like okay I guess what you did say made sense so even though it sounds crazy I mean you are providing some type of evidence so I am going to listen to you so I'm just like man hell yeah this is not just a dumb action movie where monsters are all over the place we actually have characters that I care about and characters that are making sense and not just human characters but animal characters too now of course uh this movie is near perfect but there were just two characters in this movie that I just cannot stand I pretty much despise them I mean they ruin the whole film for me one of them is the sweetest actor Malin Ackerman or Malin Ackerman she was in Washbin and also Jake Lacey or Jake Jake Lassie they're in this movie they are the two billionaires that develop this biochemical weapon that is making the animals grow to ridiculous rates and destroy the city and you know mutate and all that good stuff but seeing that they are supposed to be billionaires and behind this company called Energyne you know that just has all this technology they both come across as stupid doofuses I mean well not really Malin's character Claire but her brother yeah her brother Brett Wyden played by Jake Lacey Lassie I don't understand why they had to clue him in the film and why they wrote him that way I mean I don't know I guess they just wanted to have kind of like when I think about it I don't know how serious you would have taken the film if this would have been just some nefarious villain somewhere like I'm going to give my monsters and take over the world well that wasn't serious right there that was kind of like off Inspector Gadget or something like that but what I'm trying to say is why I understand they were trying to give this film a light fun tone that you could possibly take serious they went a little too far with his character in particular making just him just too goofy I mean this like he I mean come on I mean for the most part I mean we do have millionaires and billionaires in this country right now that have a lot of money that are just dumb dumber than a box of rocks but at the same time for the most part somebody that's in charge of this amount of resources please give them some type of intelligence and they didn't and that's pretty much one of the things that I really did not like about this film was their two characters it was it was very annoying and it did bring it down just a little bit but guys what are you here for this is rampage when you got a freaking giant gorilla a flying a wolf and a mixed crocodile alligator hybrid with spikes from hell you know jacking up the city just trying to see that I can't even talk so how did it turn out how did the animals look first of all back to the CGI the CGI was great with George in the beginning it was even greater with George in the end and the rest of the animals too the the visuals in this movie was freaking fantastic I was loving it and you know they had so many close-up shots so you can see the details of the of the creatures but they also had a bunch of shots pulled away a bunch of wide shots to where you can see all the detail as well and see how agile they're moving and the thing is is they give you a nice reveal of the monsters at the end of the movie I mean you get to see George all the way throughout but the alligator crocodile hybrid with the spikes from the depths of hell and the flying wolf they tease you with that throughout the film and it doesn't waste any time either I mean this film is an hour and 44 minutes it could have been an hour and 30 minutes because when they're giving you action here in there throughout the film I mean you're satisfied right but then there's like two sections here so I was like man this section right here is not really necessary you know it's giving me more story and character development and more reasons why you would like to rock and they only harass his character I mean it's some true depth there but you know they you know it's not needed but it's appreciated you know what I'm saying but when they're sampling pieces of you to you throughout the film of the monsters and then they just reveal it in the end and all these wild shots you're like okay wow you're like this is a really damn good movie you're like I'm really enjoying this I mean and like think about it why would these monsters be in the city why would they be trying to climb buildings like why would they do that that doesn't make any sense well the film like it is simple does have a simple plot it gives you a valid reason as to why they're doing it I'm just like okay hey you know suspend my my suspend my disbelief just a little bit here and there and you know hey I'm in for the ride I mean I am enjoying you know all of this and like that's just the visuals but the action itself it delivers I mean I was very entertained seeing them destroy these buildings jumping from here and there seeing the army and all these armed forces just letting loose other ammunition and firearms just giving them other capacity at optimum levels just like you know just you know empty in the clip in tanks and things like that and fighter jets and it's just not stopping them I'm just like man hold up you know I'm really enjoying this you know what I'm saying but then you know it gives you all that and then you think it's over or whatever and this is like you know what the people trying to take them down but it's like okay wait a minute that's not working and I'm not going to spoil it for you here but the Rockfield some type of responsibility for what's going on even though he's not responsible but he is like that is my guerrilla George and I have to save the day I have to save Chicago so with him and George team up verse the other I mean you can like feel the building up and you know it's coming and as it's coming to you somebody may have just jumped on the scene on the screen and was like hey guys all right y'all was patient for the first 75 minutes but I know y'all ready to see these marks to smack down now well here you go five four three two one here you go and enjoy it and then just building them I literally was like sit back I'm like yes bring it to me and I was just eating it all up that like for real for real like I mean I was smiling like I'm smiling right now because going into this movie was such a low expectations and being so entertained by just such a simple plot but you know hey if it ain't broke don't fix it if it's simple hey that's fine whatever you know they really did deliver the goods in this movie with the action from beginning to end you know I was like you know cheering them just like they did one of the action beats while I was like oh snap I actually did that and it didn't bother anybody because they were just as enthusiastic about the film as I was this is a nearly perfect film um I really wish this was filmed with iMAX cameras I really don't mind going to the theater to see this again it was just that good to me I'm not saying that it's the best thing in the world but I was thoroughly entertained by this it is something that I will be buying on home video when it comes out I don't know if I'm gonna be buying it on 4k because it wasn't shot with iMAX camera anything like that but I am very confident that I will be buying this movie on blu-ray in a number of months so I can enjoy it for the rest of time guys if I had to rate rampage out of a 1 out of 10 I would give it an 8.5 out of 10 yes an 8.5 out of 10 only reason I'm not giving this a 9 or 9.5 out of 10 is because those two stupid characters they kind of they were just too dumb and goofy for me and they kind of just put a damper on things but other than that guys I loved it but guys that is just my opinion for rampage starting to rain the white johnson have you seen a rampage or do you want to see it have I turned you on have I turned you off do you agree 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