Rampage

Rampage (1987)

  • 44% of critics liked it
    (9 reviews)

  • 49% of users liked it
    (232 ratings)

Rampage delves into the subject of legal insanity, so often the default defense in modern-time gruesome crime trials. Alex McArthur plays an outwardly normal guy who goes on incredible killing and mutilating sprees until (and even after, when he escapes for a short time) he's captured. When he… More

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Drama, Horror, Mystery & Suspense
In Theaters
Nov 23, 1988 Wide
Paramount Home Video

Critic Reviews

  • Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

    This is not a movie about murder so much as a movie about insanity -- as it applies to murder in modern American criminal courts. Friedkin plays with two decks and is happy to stack them both.

  • Rob Gonsalves, eFilmCritic.com

    Basically, in re-editing his film to make a cruder point, Friedkin took out the shadings in his characters and the better work of his leads, and in no way whatsoever did he improve the movie. He in fact systematically made it worse.

  • Chris Hicks, Deseret News, Salt Lake City

    ...never gets under the skin of its protagonist or allows us to understand what he's supposed to be feeling.

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