Rampage the video game couldn’t be more mindless. You take control of a mutated gorilla, wolf, or lizard and run around destroying things and eating people until your health bar runs out. That’s it. Pure mindless destruction. And I enjoyed playing it immensely.

I remember seeing the trailer for Rampage the movie for the first time. It started out looking like just another stupid Dwayne Johnson movie. Then the gorilla started wrecking things. When the wolf showed up, it began to dawn on me. “No, it couldn’t be” I thought to myself. But gradually it looked more and more like someone had actually made a movie out of one of the most simpleminded video games ever. Literally 2 seconds after I thought “Where’s Lizzie?” the giant alligator appeared.

That’s a big alligator. IMDb.com

I smelled a train wreck, and I walked into the theater feeling a tingly mixture of excited anticipation and dread, but I found myself liking this movie a lot more than I ever expected to. Continue reading →