6.3 | / 10 |
Users | 3.5 | |
Reviewer | 3.5 | |
Overall | 3.5 |
Primatologist Davis Okoye, a man who keeps people at a distance, shares an unshakable bond with George, the extraordinarily intelligent silverback gorilla who has been in his care since birth. But a rogue genetic experiment mutates this gentle ape into a raging creature of enormous size. To make matters worse, it’s soon discovered there are other similarly altered animals. As these newly created alpha predators tear across North America, destroying everything in their path, Okoye teams with a discredited genetic engineer to secure an antidote, fighting his way through an ever-changing battlefield, not only to halt a global catastrophe but also to save the fearsome creature who was once his friend.
Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Naomie Harris, Malin Akerman, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Jake LacyAction | 100% |
Adventure | 72% |
Sci-Fi | 63% |
Video codec: HEVC / H.265
Video resolution: 4K (2160p)
Aspect ratio: 2.40:1
Original aspect ratio: 2.39:1
English: Dolby Atmos
English: Dolby TrueHD 7.1 (48kHz, 24-bit)
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 (48kHz, 16-bit)
French (Canada): Dolby Digital 5.1
Mandarin: Dolby Digital 5.1
Spanish: Dolby Digital 5.1 (448 kbps)
Portuguese: Dolby Digital 5.1
Russian: Dolby Digital 5.1
Thai: Dolby Digital 5.1
Turkish: Dolby Digital 5.1
Japanese: Dolby Digital 5.1
English: Dolby Digital 5.1 (448 kbps)
English: Dolby Digital 5.1 (448 kbps)
English SDH, French, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, Arabic, Cantonese, Hebrew, Korean, Mandarin (Simplified), Mandarin (Traditional), Russian, Thai, Turkish
Blu-ray Disc
Two-disc set (2 BDs)
Digital copy
4K Ultra HD
Slipcover in original pressing
Region free
Movie | 3.0 | |
Video | 4.5 | |
Audio | 4.5 | |
Extras | 2.5 | |
Overall | 3.5 |
Rampage is based on an arcade and later home console video game of the same name that hasn't seen any new variants in quite some time but that apparently remains popular enough to make the jump to the big screen. The film, starring Dwayne Johnson and Directed by Brad Peyton (who have previously collaborated on Journey 2 and San Andreas), tells the story of a few genetically modified animals running amok and wreaking havoc through Chicago. It's becoming like a broken record to say, but there's absolutely nothing here of novel interest. It's big, yes, it's intensive, sure, but it's also very basic beyond the digital smoke and mirrors, the seamless special effects and grand scale action pieces that attempt to divert attention away from the absence of substance. But to the film's credit it largely plays to type, makes no pretenses about aspiring to anything more than modern entertainment, so it's at least unpretentious as it goes about its business of loud and destructive creatures toppling buildings and swatting aircraft from the sky in what is essentially a 21st century take on classic 50s mutated monster movies.
Rampage smashes onto UHD with a 2160p/Dolby Vision-enahnced 4K presentation that is reportedly an upscale from a 2K digital intermediate, itself sourced from 3.4K and 6.5K source photography resolutions. The image is not a revelation over a standout Blu-ray, but it is a positive refinement in terms of both clarity and color alike. The UHD is appreciably sharper, obvious even without conducting a direct comparison. Facial elements are more innately revealing and clearly visible, clothes appear more precisely sharp, digital creatures are crisper, and environments appear denser and more refined. The image is very impressively filmic, even shot digitally, with a firmer command of its elements, adding to not only clarity but also density and stability. Colors do not take a dramatic departure from the Blu-ray. In 1080p, they lacked a little bit of oomph, favoring a very slightly washed out, mildly toned down contrast. In this 12-bit Dolby Vision presentation, there is an add to overall color depth but the image maintains that slight appearance of desaturation. Color stability is improved, nuances are more readily apparent, and brighter primaries pop with a little more intensity. Black levels are purely dark and absorbing but never crush detail. Flesh tones are a bit more firm than the Blu-ray but a couple of shades removed from ideal. No significant source or encode issue are readily apparent. This is a very strong UHD image, nothing approaching the absolute best the format has to offer but delivering a solid, enjoyable picture that is a foot forward from the Blu-ray.
Rampage features a rip-roaring Dolby Atmos soundtrack. The film's first scenes set an impressive precedent for the movie. On the space station, various creaks, shooting sparks, background comms, and blaring alarms altogether create a sense of fullness and precision sound placement that individually and altogether alike effortlessly pull the listening audience into the station's cramped and quickly collapsing confines. Another high intensity action segment comes in chapter five when George awakens and escapes on a plane. The blend of high intensity music, crashes, grunts, screams, and pops of semi- and fully-automatic gunfire, the latter of which is the least intense of the sound elements and actually comes across as a little drowned out, is a standout sonic sequence for sheer aggressiveness of output. The film's extended final sequence, of course, offers a gloriously harmonic explosion of mayhem as the creatures utterly destroy large swaths of Chicago while the military throws everything it can at them to prevent further damage and death. Music is large throughout. It's spacious and aggressive and demonstrates no problems with muscling in low end support and weaving in seamlessly immersive surround goodness. Overhead channels are used mostly as a seamless support structure and less in the style of discrete components, though there are certainly some here-and-there examples of more easily distinguished and separated top layer details. Upper level activity is fairly constant, however, but there's little here that's predominately and distinctly emanating from high up. Dialogue is clear, refined, and well positioned and prioritized, though reverb at the 18-minute mark comes across as a little forced and in modest excess.
Rampage contains no extras on the UHD disc, but the bundled Blu-ray includes a handful of featurettes, a gag reel, and deleted scenes. A
Movies Anywhere digital copy code is included with purchase.
Rampage delivers high-yield effects-laden entertainment, but its substance is no more than a stable of stale stereotype characters and a stock story straight out of 50s Sci-Fi monster movies. Nevertheless, it works very well as intended; audiences will have to decide, though, if pure escapism and digital wonders are enough to cover up the near total absence of anything else of value. Warner Brothers' UHD release of Rampage delivers a quality 2160p/Dolby Vision viewing experience. The Atmos track is superb and the bundled Blu-ray contains a smattering of enjoyable and informative supplements. Recommended.
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