A movie you should see - Rampage

I've read a lot of stuff about Uwe Boll on the Internet. A lot of hate, mocking, the usual stuff when the Internet hordes latch onto something. Now, I've never actually seen one of his movies so I've always reserved judgement, and felt a little left out in being able to join in on the hate. I went into seeing this movie without knowing it was a Uwe Boll film at first, it was the premise for this movie that had me immediately hooked. A young man dons a suit of armour and goes on a killing spree. Sweet! This could be interesting, as opposed to say, annoying rich white people adopt young black man blah blah blah *barf*....excuse me.... Seeing it was a Uwe Boll movie had me even more excited, finally a chance to find out for myself. Now it's one thing to have an interesting premise, but it's all in the execution, so the speak....

And this movie is quite well done. It's shot in a documentrary like style, doing a good job of portraying the bleakness and isolation of growing up in a middle of nowhere small American town. The first half of the movie establishes everything. The main character, an angry young man, angry at what, he's probably not sure himself. Parents want him out of the house, boss at a dead end job is a jerk, the small town is getting to him. The acting here is solid, and so is the dialogue. The scene at the fast food restaurant is particularly well executed. His best friend is an interesting character here too as they are essentially two sides of the same coin. They share similar

The second half of the movie is the killing spree. Here the look is like in Heat, shaky camera and all. The killing isn't glorified. It's just shown for what it is in a very cold detached style. There's a good scene here where he enters a bingo hall and none of the old farts even bat an eyelid until he interrupts their game. However perhaps the scene where he guns down a bunch of beauty queens at a hair salon is a little OTT and trying to pander to the angry young men watching this film.

All in all though, this is a very good movie. There's a real sense of nihilism permeating throughout the film, it's all executed tightly. Good job Uwe Boll.