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狂暴3：击倒总统 (2016) 豆瓣 IMDb 维基数据 TMDB
Rampage 3: No Mercy
导演: 乌维·鲍尔 Uwe Boll 演员: Matt Frewer / 布莱登·佛雷切 …
其它标题: Rampage 3: No Mercy / 狂暴3 …
比尔威廉森回来了，这次要到华府出任务。他打算从美国白宫内部引爆让政治人物瓦解，结果之大将影响全世界。他这次的新任务，是要让美国总统垮台，并揭发电影下载秘辛。再创前两部电影的终极暴力美学。
2018年11月9日 看过
2018年11月9日 评论 a review of 狂暴3：击倒总统 - Uwe Boll's final film. While I wouldn't call the first Rampage a good movie, I will say that it impressed me by being a competent and legitimately watchable effort from a man that's universally considered to be one of the worst filmmakers of all time. The only thing of note to come from this one is the director's YouTube rant in which he cusses us out for not funding his Kickstarter and announces his retirement. In the video he calls President Down an "important movie." For the life of me I can't figure out why. Nothing he says here is original. Every point brought up and topic discussed are things people had already been talking about years before this movie came out. I will give Boll credit for finally expressing his views in an intelligible manner. There's actually some focus to his ramblings this time around so we're able to understand his messages as a result, flawed though they be. This is easily the most clear and concise of the Rampage films. The material is still dated though and whole thing is impossible to take seriously due to the inane ideology of its protagonist. Uwe Boll's attempt at explaining his mouthpiece's hypocritical actions in Capital Punishment almost makes sense. Almost. You just can't give it even the barest modicum of thought. As soon as any part of your brain begins to think about it you become immediately aware of how dumb it is. That's the problem with these two sequels. They're just so dumb. Not that the first movie was intelligent or anything like that. It's just that it was much more simple and wasn't an attempt by Boll to overreach by creating a soapbox for his confused worldviews. This movie isn't just stupid though. It's also incredibly boring. The summary would have you believe you'll get to see "Bill" (Brendan Fletcher) storm the White House, gun down a bunch of Secret Service agents, and eventually take out the President. Obviously, Boll didn't have the budget for anything like that. So instead what we got is a plot that picks up after he already pulled of his assassination. With only one action sequence occurring after over an hour of the film has already gone by, the majority of the running-time consists of watching the dumbest FBI agents ever muck about, Boll attempting (and failing) to humanize Bill by giving him a family, boring news broadcasts from wooden reporters, and a bunch of reused footage from the previous two Rampage flicks. To make matters worse, the climatic battle is a lazy, unexciting display of cheap explosions and weak gunplay. The highlight of this series has always been Brendan Fletcher. He's consistently given a dedicated performance despite material's swiftly degrading quality. That doesn't change here. The problem is that in this third outing his character has become little more than annoying. I didn't care about what he was saying or doing. I just wanted him to shut up so that the movie would end and I could move on with my life. My favorite part of President Down occurs after the credits. Where Uwe Boll waves his hat to the camera and walks off into the sunset. Stepping away from filmmaking forever and saying "you all should have appreciated what I gave you." Now, I don't like this scene because I hate the guy so much that I'm glad to see that he finally went away. He's made some absolute garbage, but also a few guilty pleasures of mine. I like it because it captures so much of what made Boll rage quit in the first place. You see, it wasn't just the bad movies that made people dislike him. It was the arrogance and inability to take totally justifiable, if often mean-spirited criticism. So seeing him away in defeat actually believing that he was the hero we didn't deserve is not only hilarious, but also the perfect example of why I keep subjecting myself to his notoriously awful creations. I just find the nutcase so fascinating. It's interesting to think that had he not gotten so offended that nobody actually cared about this movie he honestly believed could change the world, Boll would likely still be making terrible cinema to this day and maybe even well beyond. So few directors have ever reached this level of infamy it's almost sad to see him go. As bad as his work was, you can't say he wasn't a man of singular vision. Most of our mocking of him will now have to be done retroactively outside of his desperate attempts to maintain some kind of relevancy by challenging other controversial people to boxing matches, suing big movie studios, and managing a failing (because it's crap) YouTube channel. It's befitting that he exited on one of the worst films of his career. I also have to take a moment to express my amusement at Crystal Lowe breaking the immersion by looking directly at the camera. You can tell it wasn't her fault. They were filming in a cramped room and she had to walk towards the camera to go offscreen. Her body language and eye movements make it clear that she was trying to figure out how she was going to be able to squeeze by the rest of the crew and of course the camera man was right there. An amusing example of how awkward it must have been to be involved in the making of this movie.
1.5/10