On a wildlife reserve, primatologist Davis Okoye (Dwayne Johnson), is concerned when an albino ape in his care (“George”) begins to grow uncontrollably and demonstrates increased strength and aggression.
After a disastrous test causes a mutant lab rat to destroy the station in the opening sequence, three canisters of the chemical fall to earth and infect three animals around them. A mega-corporation (Energy) is attempting to weaponise a DNA resequencer in a space-lab. Rampage does well in delivering on this, with enough call backs to the game to reference it, but (due to the flimsy plot of the original) is able to build its own storyline onto those bones. It seems odd the titular 1986 giant monster smash ’em up game would have enough cultural cache to warrant a big budget action flick decades later, but apparently that is the world we live in. Starring Dwayne Johnson, Naomie Harris, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Malin Akerman 6/10
