10 Films More Controversial Than Charlie Sheen's 9/11 Movie
9. Rampage
The first Uwe Boll movie to receive mostly positive reviews, Rampage follows Bill Williamson (Brendan Fletcher), a particularly unpleasant young man who for no clear reason decides to go on a killing spree.
Largely improvised, the film takes place in a world of minimum wage jobs and branded stores with indifferent staff, where casual misanthropy and “fake news” are broadcast 24/7 on radio and TV. Is Williamson a product of his environment? He certainly speaks like one of the radio shock jocks, pointing out that millions of people are brought into the world each year just to suck up our resources.
“There’s too many people,” he says. “So what do we do? Just keep them around? Let’s kill them!”
Embarking on a shooting spree, he indiscriminately kills beauty shop employees as well as bank tellers, whose money he steals while telling them, “Everything you use it for is stupid and senseless – have a nice day.” He burns some of the money, but he also keeps some for himself, which seems to contradict his statement that his mission was to “clean the world” for the rest of us.