Rampage (2009)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Movie
German title Rampage
Original title Rampage
Country of production Canada , Germany
original language English
Publishing year 2009
length 77 minutes (abridged DVD), 81 minutes (abbreviated Blu-Ray), 85 minutes
Age rating FSK 18 (abridged version), SPIO / JK: uncritically harmless (unabridged version)
Rod
Director Uwe Boll
script Uwe Boll
production Uwe Boll,
Dan Clarke ,
Shawn Williamson
music Jessica de Rooij
camera Mathias Neumann
cut Thomas Sabinsky
occupation

Rampage (alternative title: Rampage - Revenge is merciless ) is a Canadian - German action film in coproduction by Uwe Boll from 2009 . Like his earlier works, Rampage and Heart of America , the film deals with a man's rampage . In 2014 the sequel Rampage - Capital Punishment appeared . In autumn 2016, Rampage: President Down, the third part of the series, was released on DVD ( direct-to-DVD ).

action

Bill Williamson has developed an incredible hatred of modern society. The 24-year-old lives with his two working parents and should now slowly make the leap into society and move out of home. But the auto mechanic has his own plans. He has ordered Kevlar materials through his best friend, the political activist Evan Drince, and tinkers them into a bulletproof combat suit . While his parents think he is writing college applications , he leaves the house. He uses a remote-controlled delivery truck to transport a bomb equipped with a remote detonator into a police building and detonates the bomb. He leaves the scene and fires submachine guns at random in the city center at fleeing passers-by. In a hairdresser's shop, he drives the employees and their customers into a corner and shoots them. In a Starbucks- like store he gives the employee, with whom he had a confrontation in an earlier scene, five seconds to disappear (while the fate of the employee is not clear in the cut German-language version, he shoots the man in the US American or unabridged German version). His way leads him to a bank, where he shoots a number of ticket agents and forces the manager to open the safe. Apparently he burns the money in front of the bank visitors. But it was counterfeit money that he had previously made himself. Before the police show up, he goes to a bingo hall , where his appearance in full riot gear causes no reaction. He moves on, disappointed. Followed by the police, he drives towards the forest, where Evan, with whom he has agreed to play paintball , is waiting for him. Before he reaches him, he kills two police officers in a car with a bomb. He kills two other officers in another explosion and stabs a third officer, Sheriff Melvoy, with a knife. In the US version, he mocks him beforehand. He meets Evan, whom he shoots in the head, which is supposed to indicate suicide. He puts on his riot gear, burns the rest of his crime clothes and drives home, where he plays the unsuspecting in front of his parents and is shocked by the events. Since his best friend is considered the main culprit, his parents leave him alone. He puts his things and some of the money from the bank robbery in a suitcase.

The ending is different in the German version and the original version. In the original version, you can initially see a text panel that says “Bill Williamson disappeared that same evening. 2 years later these statements were posted online ... "(Eng:" Bill Williamson disappeared the same evening. Two years later these statements were published online. ") Then you can see a monologue in which Williamson describes his actions as" population policy " . The German version ends with the text “After posting these statements online, police found more incriminating evidence in Bill Williamson's house. He was arrested and sentenced to death. "(Eng:" After he published these statements online, the police found more incriminating evidence in his home. He was arrested and sentenced to death. ")

background

The budget of the film was 4.5 million euros.

After the rampage and Heart of America , this is Uwe Boll's third film to deal with the issue of rampaging. Boll sees the film as social criticism and says: "I'm interested in how people go crazy and the question of what makes people do things like that." With the film, he wants to denounce society's moral concepts and put a mirror in front of this society. He also sees the film as a satire on the 2007 financial crisis . He also sees the film as an examination of the rampage of young people, in particular the rampage of Winnenden :

“There is already a second level that brings up the question: What kind of society have we lived in for the past ten years? In the end: The stronger survives. (...) The moral in society is: try your best to get your sheep dry. What happens after that doesn't give a shit. And with the mentality the politicians acted, the economy acted - and you don't have to be surprised when a guy like in Winnenden simply says: I'll just blow away 20 men. "

- Uwe Boll : rampage against film funding. Interview with Uwe Boll

According to its own statement, the film is “very glorifying of violence” and its German release could only be released without youth approval and with cuts of around 4 minutes. Not only did the FSK fall victim to violence , but also some dialogue scenes. The end of the film had to be cut and an alternative ending with the death of the perpetrator was added (see also plot).

“The absurdity of RAMPAGE is that something really only had to be changed at the end. (...) They want the police to get him. And that is complete, I think, unbelievable cultural censorship, because the film can be seen as a satire on the financial crisis. Like, you just have to be rigorous enough to get away with it. So. Yes, but if he doesn't get away with it in the end, then I wouldn't have made the film at all, so to speak. For me this is the hardest blow I've received from the FSK so far, because it's not even a discussion about explicitly depicting violence or something like that. "

- Uwe Boll : Interview with Maslohs.de

On February 25, 2011, Splendid published the uncut version in Germany as a “Black Edition”, which was judged to be “unobjectionable under criminal law” by the legal commission of the central organization of the film industry .

In 2014 Uwe Boll directed the sequel Rampage - Capital Punishment . Brendan Fletcher can be seen again in the lead role, Boll wrote the script again and also took over the production. On October 14, 2016, the third installment in the series, Rampage: President Down , was released direct-to-DVD . Boll took over the direction for the third time and worked again on the script, Brendan Fletcher took on the role of the protagonist again.

Reviews

The lexicon of international films writes: "Brutal action film, the poor social criticism of which hardly disguises the fact that it is primarily about the pleasurable coloring of explosions and slaughter."

The vast majority of film critics, however, describe the film as one of Boll's more successful works and rated it positively. Only the acts of violence, which many perceived as an end in themselves, were questioned by critics. A cinema editor, for example, attested the work “intelligent B-movie entertainment” and described the work as “the intelligent psychogram of a gunman who unfortunately slipped into a luxuriant first-person shooter look at times”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Comparison between the German JK version and the US R-rated version. Schnittberichte.com, accessed August 10, 2010 .
  2. ↑ a b c Kay Pinno: rampage against film funding. Interview with Uwe Boll . In: Deadline . No. 5 , 2009, p. 45-47 .
  3. ↑ a b Interview with Uwe Boll - RAMPAGE and DARFUR. Maslohs.de, accessed on August 10, 2010 .
  4. ↑ Rampage in the "Black Edition". OFDb , accessed July 26, 2011 .
  5. ↑ Rampage. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  6. ↑ Rampage - Uwe Boll's rampage film. GameStar , accessed August 10, 2010 .
  7. ^ Film review . Cinema . Retrieved August 10, 2010.