Rampage does not pretend to be anything other than a very noisy, very silly and very big creature-feature, and as such it delivers on that promise, especially in the sometimes genuinely spectacular carnage wreaked on Chicago in the final act. Other than that, this is a typically pointless and unimaginative blockbuster that at times cannot even be saved by Dwayne Johnson's cinematic charms - here, he plays it somewhat too seriously for the material, even by his standards. Indeed, all of the performances consist of very large broad-strokes acting in an attempt to match the scale of the effects and the noisiness of the soundtrack. WETA once again work their magic on the wonderfully-realised creatures with excellent work on display, but some of the other CGI work, such as integrating actors over CG backgrounds, is disappointingly and jarringly not up to the same standard. As big Friday-night popcorn entertainment, Rampage does its best to please, but do not look for any more than that.
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