10 Movies That Could Be 2018's Sleeper Hits
6. Rampage
Hollywood still hasn't managed to make a good video game movie, but with Brad Peyton's Rampage only borrowing a title and three giant monsters from the source material, hopefully the director can avoid the video game curse.
Of course, it helps when you have one of the world's most popular, charismatic and bankable stars in the lead role. Fresh off the half-billion dollar success of Jumanji, Dwayne Johnson dives straight back into big-budget genre filmmaking looking to score a similarly-sized hit.
The trailer has made Rampage look like one of two things; either a retread of Peyton and Johnson's own San Andreas with monsters instead of an earthquake as the villain, or a combination of the monsters from Gareth Edward's Godzilla mixed with the action of Pacific Rim. Whether those comparisons are a good thing or not, all three of those movies made at least $400m at the box office and Rampage will be hoping to follow suit.
There are also plenty of people predicting this thing will bomb hard and at this point its virtually impossible to tell. If audiences can get on board with the silly concept, the effects remain solid and it doesn't devolve into a Transformers-style assault on the senses by the end, then Rampage could turn out to be the year's breakout monster movie.