6.4 | / 10 |
Users | 3.5 | |
Reviewer | 2.0 | |
Overall | 2.4 |
A man with a thirst for revenge builds a full body armor from Kevlar and goes on a killing spree.
Starring: Lochlyn Munro, Brendan Fletcher, Mike Dopud, Michaela Mann, Bruce BlainThriller | 100% |
Action | 36% |
Crime | 36% |
Drama | Insignificant |
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
Original aspect ratio: 1.78:1
English: Dolby Digital 5.1 (448 kbps)
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25GB Blu-ray Disc
Two-disc set (1 BD, 1 DVD)
DVD copy
Region free
Movie | 1.5 | |
Video | 3.0 | |
Audio | 2.5 | |
Extras | 2.0 | |
Overall | 2.0 |
Conspiracy theorist meets political junkie meets Grand Theft Auto character in Rampage: Capital Punishment, a picture from the legendarily despised Uwe Boll (In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale) about a man who speaks out against the controlling elite by...wasting innocent civilians who are as much a pawn in the game as he. Whatever. It's Uwe Boll. It's the follow-up to Rampage, a 2009 picture focused on the same character who kills a bunch of people. This film has precious little depth. It's nothing more than a mouthpiece for Boll's political agenda (he also wrote the script and stars in the film as a fat cat TV executive who profits off the bloodbath). The movie does have its moments of deeper drama, good acting, and a haunting atmosphere, but the repetitive doldrums, bland shoot-outs, and heavy-handed messaging not only destroy the movie but prevent the more detailed points of Boll's worldview to really come into focus.
rantin', chillin', and killin'. All in a day's work.
Rampage: Capital Punishment features a boring 1080p transfer. The image is flat and bland, lacking any sort of defining vitality or crispness. Details never reach for anything better than "fair." Facial features, fine details in the character's armor, and clothing lines reveal adequate textures. The storeroom set piece lacks much of anything of visual interest. It's suitably defined but nothing more. Colors, likewise, are fine but hardly excite. Clothes provide the most variety against the predominately gray main stage backdrop. Neither black levels nor flesh tones prove problematic, but neither do they appear realistically positioned anywhere in the film. The image suffers from light banding and noise. This is a serviceable image, nothing more and nothing less.
Rampage: Capital Punishment arrives on Blu-ray with a bland, lifeless Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack. Though the film is more a talker than a gunner, it certainly lacks the precision and sonic nuance that could have elevated the action scenes a few notches. Gunfire is flat and phony, lacking the authentic rattle and crack of real life weaponry, the precision sounds the best tracks can effortlessly reproduce. Explosions also lack heft and stage presence. The track throws some random effects into the back spacers, but imaging, directionality, and all-around immersion are poor, whether in the heat of battle or when conveying basic environment ambience. Dialogue delivery is satisfactorily clean and focused, yet the track is a disappointment in total.
Rampage: Capital Punishment contains several extras.
Rampage: Capital Punishment tends to ramble and lose whatever point Boll and company are trying to get across. Disgruntled citizens battling the system is almost always a sure bet -- Falling Down is a spectacular film, for example -- but Rampage: Capital Punishment just goes for the jugular from the start and then becomes little more than a de facto rant against anything and everything that takes place behind closed doors. Adding random murder and mayhem only makes the audience dislike the character and not pay attention to what he has to say. Maybe Boll should just write his manifesto, publish it, and move on, particularly considering the much more engaging delivery of his commentary track, agree with his observations or not. Phase 4's Blu-ray release of Rampage: Capital Punishment features middling video, flat audio, and a few supplements. Avoid.
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