Rampage Review: 6 Ups & 5 Downs
5. The (Mostly) Fantastic Visual Effects
To be honest, a film as seemingly trashy as this could probably have gotten away with having mediocre visual effects, because it would only have accentuated the B-movie tone the film seemed to be shooting for.
As it stands, though, every cent of Rampage's $120 million budget ended up on the screen, ensuring that this will likely be one of the year's most visually impressive tentpoles (seriously).
From the moment we're introduced to George, it's shocking just how lifelike the effects are, and though things become decidedly less believable during the chaotic, daft finale, there are rarely moments where the CGI is anything less than solid.
It's often genuinely great, and the expressiveness of George in particular contributes significantly to the movie working as well as it does.