Movie review
April 11, 2018 · 107 min · PG-13
Woke Score
Lower is better
Review
Rampage is a 2018 action-adventure movie starring Dwayne Johnson as a primatologist who teams with a geneticist to stop three giant mutated animals, including his close gorilla friend George, after a corporate genetic experiment escapes control and threatens major cities. The story centers on friendship, loyalty, stopping a disaster, and basic corporate villainy in a loud, effects-driven monster format with humor and destruction. No identity-driven themes, activist messaging, or representation-focused choices appear in the narrative, dialogue, or marketing.
Breakdown
These are the editorial factors and ratings behind our score for Rampage.
Woke representation / casting
Diverse cast with Naomie Harris in a prominent scientist role alongside Dwayne Johnson; fits action movie norms naturally with no visible signaling, quotas, or logic mismatches.
Woke political dialogue
Brief cartoonish lines from corporate villains about profit and secret experiments; no extended speeches or modern activist rhetoric.
Identity-driven story themes
Focuses on human-gorilla friendship and disaster response; no plotlines built around race, gender, sexuality, or identity.
Western institutional / cultural critique
Shows greedy corporation causing catastrophe through reckless experiments; standard monster-movie corporate hubris trope without modern activist reframing of systemic issues or identity.
Woke character or canon changes
Not relevant; loose adaptation of a simple 1980s arcade game with no canon characters or historical figures altered.
Anti-woke backlash and complaints
No documented complaints accusing the film of pushing woke, DEI, or identity politics messaging; reception stayed on entertainment value.
Creator track record context
Mostly low-woke commercial creators; Ryan Condal’s later moderate pattern from other projects slightly raises the average, but this 2018 film shows no matching elements.
Production
