This is the kind of bad movie that only comes from thinking you're hot stuff and want the rest of the world to know. I got my crash course on one of the middle aged Sayre brothers - Garrett - with the very creepy 'Honorable Men', but Steve turned in some vanity projects himself which he both acts and directs. 'Rampage' stars the both of them.
The long and short on the story is both are cops / DEA who get teamed up with the CIA and head to Columbia to assassinate a drug kingpin. This angers his powerful cousin who then writes to them pre-warning about the revenge he's about to take. He and his cohorts follows thru and it's one silly scheme after another to kill everyone involved and their loved ones.
The plot is a disjointed mess filled with bad acting, shootouts, toy cars and miniature models being blown up for explosions. You get a bad monotone voiceover from Garrett moving the story ahead in certain spots. They also cast their elderly friend Billy Franklin as a cop. Why we have to see him naked is only known to them. What else? Plenty of stock footage. Jungle animals when they "go" to Columbia. A NASA shuttle launch. Footage from 'Top Gun' of the aircraft carrier and F18's taking off.
Wait there's more. The bad guys 'revenge' letter is written on the back of the actual actors headshot casting agency photo. A microwave timer gets used repeatedly to represent a bomb countdown. The mad bomber trying to sound like Dennis Hopper in 'Speed' on the phone when he calls the police. A chase scene on golf carts that can't be unseen.
My favorite part has Garrett jump from a police helicopter - without a parachute - to check out a drug lab in a high rise building. They drop an action figure in a quick blurry shot that is supposed to represent him falling thru the air. He crashes thru the roof and ends up in bed with a topless lady watching 'Cops' on tv. The best part is very next thing he's outside - like the whole drug lab thing was concocted just to show he's awesome - and Billy who was in the helicopter meets him on the ground in record time.
'Rampage' is a must watch if you love awful vanity projects. It even has rock ballads on the soundtrack written by Steve Sayre. What a versatile man. You do get a few legit cars being shot and some fleeting female nudity, but if it's worth 80 minutes of your time is debatable. Have the right mindset walking into this one.
