Rampage: Capital Punishment

2014 "Land of the Free. Home of the Insane."
6| 1h33m| NR| en
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A man takes over a TV station and holds a number of hostages as a political platform to awaken humanity, instead of money.

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Boll Kino Beteiligungs GmbH & Co. KG

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Linbeymusol Wonderful character development!
Steineded How sad is this?
Tymon Sutton The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.
Tobias Burrows It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.
liam-campbell8-965-818974 I know Uwe Boll gets a lot of hate for his movies and to be honest I quite enjoy his movies, House of the Dead was fun zombie mayhem and Assault on Wall Street was a fairly tense thriller.I liked the first Rampage and was fairly curious when a sequel was announced, the trailers looked decent and the reviews I heard were actually not badSo how does "Rampage: Capital Punishment" hold up? Well I must admit I thought it was a decent film, Brendan Fletcher is great once again and the film manages to convey effect tension and fear again. Though this is not a film for everyone, there is a pretty big political message running through out the film and it seems that our lead character believes that killing people is the ultimate solution to all our problems.Though looking through all that I found the film to be well acted (apart from Uwe Boll's hilarious cameo), well shot and effectively pacedRampage: Capital Punishment is a fair thriller, worth a rent
posersince91 The first RAMPAGE was an unexpectedly entertaining and interesting movie. Not just when you stack it against the rest of Uwe Boll's movies, but on even on it's own. It was a character study, it pulled no punches, it had an thought provoking and an up-to-interpretation message. The violence was done quietly and realistically and Uwe Boll had finally made a movie we could all agree was good. So i went into this movie with higher expectations than I usually would for a film from Mr. Boll. Unfortunately, he throws most of that out the window here and goes back to the same slack style he's used in his earlier movies.The good: the performance from Brendan Fletcher really is great and the best part of the movie, like how it was in the first one. When he's monologue-ing to the camera or another character about his plan, it draws you in and makes you wonder if this guy really is crazy, or if he really is making sense. It at least gives you some points to think about. Which is why it's frustrating that once the movie's second act starts and Uwe Boll introduces the character he plays into the movie, he completely undercuts it and shoots himself in the foot. He cuts himself randomly in the middle of Brendan Fletcher's speeches with his own lines of nonsense and it kills the momentum and build up of the speech, with a character that could have been completely cut from the movie, no less.And that's about where the good stops. The action in the first almost leaves your mouth agape with how shocking his rampage through the street is. Here, it's directed like it's a video game, with rock music blaring in the background, and the kills being zoomed in and slow motioned and everybody doing a slow-mo flip when shot. I get wanting to do something different, but this movie is essentially the same setup as the first, and he's killing innocents, and none of that weight carries over when the kills are shot and directed this way. it's extremely broad compared to how hard nosed the original handled it.Once the second act hits, get ready for a total of 2 locations for the rest of the movie. Not like in the first, where he walked the streets, met people, called back to a location or person from earlier, throw that out the window. Here, it's in a room with hostages, and outside of that room where the police officer is. that's it. and the Police Officer's shot is always the same. He's standing in front of a brick wall with a table in front of it. the camera doesn't move, he doesn't go talk to other officers or wander to get evidence or question anybody anywhere else. It cuts to him periodically and it's literally the exact same shot and setup every time. And I'm not saying limited locations means a bad movie automatically. CLERKS is almost completely in a convenience store, but the shots are setup different and creatively each time. Uwe refuses to move the camera anywhere but facing a wall.With how good Brendan Fletcher, it shows how much poorer the rest of the supporting cast is, and it's a shame, because Fletcher really is great in this role. It just seems like Uwe developed his character and wrote out these great monologues for him to say, and then didn't put much thought into how to flesh out all those ideas.RAMPAGE: CAPITAL PUNISHMENT isn't Uwe Boll's worst movie, and it does have a good first act that feels close to the original RAMPAGE, it just slowly spirals down the drain as it goes along.
Lehmanbrother123456 . First of all whoever watched the first movie and this, you can clearly see that whoever directed this just came up with different plot of this guy "fighting for truth" just to continue this crappy sequel. Everything is just horrible in this movie, i understand its a movie but comon...Person who shoot out randomly several dozen of people including cops, he would be marked as domestic terrorist, authority would be all over that guy there would be no way for him to even show up on the street without being shot at. Then there is the message, OK government is corrupt and world is messed up, what a "big news". I don't even want to go there as I already typed enough for this crap. Lol just wanted to say at the end he sits and freely drinks his coffee or whatever and no one recognizes him, then kid passes and he gives a gun with some dumb message of changing the world. This movie is for imbeciles? Certainly looks like it, I want my time that I wasted of my life back.
M. Tucker It takes a lot of guts to participate in a movie like this with such a nihilistic and inhuman message. This is not a gore fest, this is not a splatter nor a horror movie, this is a call to disaster. The message is "If we can't change, we should be terminated". It has similarities to "FIGHT CLUB", but it is way more serious and one- dimensional: Uwe is not as gifted as Fincher. This is a manifesto more than a movie. The director wants us to think about capitalism, materialism, consumerism and generally, the emptiness of our modern lives, our modern times."FIGHT CLUB" for me is the best movie i have ever seen but it captures the 90's and 00's: This is 2014 and this is the movie that reflects our times better. I hope Uwe Boll is wrong, i hope there is still hope in this world and i hope the decay of the western civilization is reversible.PS Brendan Fletcher's performance is a tour de force