"Rage Behemoth" is adapted from the English game "Rampage" of the same name. The game itself has no plot. Players need to play the protagonist George or the big lizard to constantly demolish buildings and hit helicopters - just like the movies that appear many times. The shot of eating the plane is also a tribute to the game by the director. From time to time, he will receive "harassment" from the residents in the building and the plane. At this time, the player needs to eat passers-by or residents to replenish blood. It is not until the building is demolished that the task of the day is completed.
This kind of game with basically zero plot, the director joined the fetters of the protagonist Johnson and the orangutan to promote the whole plot. To be honest, the relationship between the two is more warm and funny. Gorilla George is not only brave under the taming of Dwayne Johnson, but also more humane with the dinosaurs tamed by "Star Lord" in "Jurassic World", with a little more jokes and bad taste, it can be said that he contracted the movie most of the jokes.
The first half of the film is still quite a horror movie, especially the part where the two bosses with weird ideas go to capture the wolf. The hidden environment of the jungle solidified the atmosphere. In a simple sentence, even if you know that something will suddenly pop out in the next scene, but you don't know in which second this scene will occur, this kind of waiting will make the audience even more thrilling.
The story of "Rage Beast" is relatively relaxed and casual. The director also adds some easter eggs of the game from time to time to serve the loyal fans of the game. We don't see how ambitious he is, as long as the audience can feel the visual enjoyment is enough. , just like his predecessor "Doomsday Collapse", but the content of the newly released "Orangutan Demolition of Buildings" is more open. After all, the previous work is a serious disaster rescue film. some restrictions.
The fight in the last 20 minutes of the movie can be described as very exciting, this time the special effects are produced by Weta digital (Weta digital) who created the "Demon Trilogy". Not to mention the big scenes, I personally think that 90% of the big scenes in the film are in the daytime, which is undoubtedly good news for the audience's visual experience. For negative examples, you can refer to "Batman Vs Superman" and "Suicide Squad". Although the atmosphere of the city without the sun all day is cool, our audience is actually quite tired. more uncomfortable.
In 2018, there were several movies adapted from games. In addition to "Rage Behemoth", the other one was "Jumanji" starring Dwayne Johnson himself and "Tomb" starring Oscar supporting actress Alicia Vikander. Raider, and even Ready Player One, which uses games to create a new worldview. Compared with novels, it is actually much more difficult to adapt a movie from a game. Adapting a script is one aspect, and how to control the duration is another aspect, because the world view and character background of many games are too complicated. Steven Spielberg is very opportunistic, and "Ready Player One" is undoubtedly more pleasing to the audience than "Rage Beast": a complete world view, a "Hunger Games"-like dystopian story (though not), More tribute elements, a bridge between the future world and the real world (VR), and the presentation of the future world (although Stephen still gave a lot of utopian plots in the dystopian film).
In general, the scene of "Rage Monster" has appeared more than dozens of times in the scene of this commercial film, but the audience can still feel it funny and not boring. In addition to strong special effects support, it also needs some impressive characters like Jeffrey Dean Morgan and the lovely George as icing on the cake. Johnson's appearance is more for the producer and director. The tacit understanding of the partnership. When some bugs have become the irreversible vicinity of this type of commercial film, what we can do is "if there is one, ignore it, and if it doesn't, it will be crowned."
Keywords: game adaptation, action, adventure, Dwayne Johnson
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