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The first and second one were way better. This one just wasn't as intense and too much talking going on. Not saying it was terrible but could have been better. They need to be more logical with what they're saying. No one is going to believe that Britney Spears and George Bush were killed. Too hypocritical and talking about terrorists. We didn't even see the president and his secretary's being killed so they just left that out. It seemed a little died down. There was a lot of hype about it and it didn't meet the expectations. But usually the third sequel isn't always that good. They didn't even explain how he met his wife crystal and what happened after Bill died. What's going to happen to Billy also? He's never going to see that DVD.

I've enjoyed the first two movies in this series incredibly.

However this particular film ends in utter nonsense.

It is a movie about an extreme left-wing radical and yet, they make a bold claim in the final scenes regarding right-wing terrorists which completely negates the entire premise of the film. Right when I was about to finish watching, satisfied with the content, they throw this statement into the film which completely destroys the continuity of the story.

That being said, if you would like to see a movie about a terrorist democrat, it's a good watch. Far from the quality of the previous two however.

That's what I would describe the latest (and hopefully last) entry of the Rampage series from director Uwe Boll. This recent film is a huge disappointment given previous films like Postal, the first Rampage, Assault on Wall Street, and Tunnel Rats 1968 seemed to signal a maturation as a filmmaker.

This film focuses on Bill Williamson solidifying his legacy as a voice for the oppressed, but ends up coming off as a Che Guevara by way of Osama Bin Laden. He's a terrorist who somehow successfully assassinated the President and others in the Federal Govt. And we're also supposed to believe that Williamson's followers would have infiltrated the federal agencies trying to track him down, essentially nerfing them. This is a fantasy movie with little to no basis in reality.

The film mostly covers Williamson proselytizing to his followers and the FBI trying to find him. The screenplay was written by Boll and actor Brendan Fletcher, who plays Williamson. This is basically Boll stroking his own ego, trying to show the world he knows what needs to be done to make our planet a better place. He tries to make Williamson a sympathetic figure with moments showing him as a father and husband. Makes sense. Some women have wanted to be the wife of Charles Manson or Richard Ramirez.

As a viewer, I was more sympathetic to the FBI agents, Molokai and Jones. They were given depth. We knew about them, they became more relatable. They were real compared to the cartoonish Williamson.

What struck me the most was the fixation of explosions and violence done to police. Yeah, some cops are dirty and corrupt, just like anyone of any race, creed, what have you. We see so many shots of them flying through the air and being blasted with gunfire. This is anarchy cop murder porn.

The first Rampage film was an interesting look at a nihilist becoming a mass murderer, and how ideology can lead to extremism. And that's where the series should have ended, by not becoming a series.

I would rate this two stars because Steve Baran and Ryan McDonell as the two FBI leads are the stand outs and deserve to be in a better film.

This is one of those movies that if I could give it a 0 (zero), I would. It consists of some of the most unbelievable acting I've ever seen. The characters just never develop into anything resembling real people.

If you want to watch political harangue, disguised as entertainment, this might be a movie you enjoy. But for a movie under the genre of action, crime, thriller; well, the only genre it fits would be crime, and the crime would be the fact that the movie was ever distributed in the first place.

Apparently this is part 3 of a 3 part trilogy. I never had the misfortune of seeing the other two parts, but judging from this film, I guess I haven't missed anything.

I would suggest that you save your money, time, and sanity. Go watch (or buy) something else.

I didn't really have expectations with "President Down", I have seen the first two movies and for me there's a darkness and chill that suggests that the trilogy is closer to horror/thriller than action. Brenden Fletcher seems to look madder and scarier and as an anti-hero you get the feeling he's not that likable a person; highly intelligent yet potentially volatile, not the type of person you take home to mother...

Somehow I was gripped by President Down, low budget and weak script aside, the message is powerful, the fantasy of one person making an impact whereby "the people" take back their power and follow the (somewhat jumbled) message...

However, the message is powerful and although the use of violence/control to instigate a potential egalitarian society never works; the sophomoric use of action and sensationalism at least will attract some people that need the message/parable to casually sink into their subconscious.

Overall it's a worthwhile watch if you want your noodles cooked (brain stimulated) but don't expect high end action or deeply choreographed fight scenes. President Down deserves a watch as the thinkers will find it intriguing...

Aside from the lousy acting, the blunders of the cops and FBI, and the goofs and things that don't make sense - going after a terrorist in the woods in coat & tie - this rot is full of anarchist/communist propaganda that makes me want to puke.

Why did anyone waste time or money on this piece of trash?

I enjoyed the movie but it almost comes off as a training/inspirational video for Communists/Anarchists like the Antifa scumbags who have been polluting our streets. Especially at the end, it got particularly ridiculous when the love of his life actually states that he wasn't a terrorist. LOL. Then the dumbass news bitch actually calls him a RIGHT-wing anarchist. OBVIOUSLY he was a left-wing nutcase although a pretty bad-ass one. Antifa's time will come and I will surely enjoy contributing to it.

The plot, acting and cinematography of this latest installment were slightly better than average... It's not easy to produce high quality film with a limited budget, especially when everyone want to get as much money as possible for their work..

Uwe Boll's correctly identified some of the current issues facing society, however, his suggested use of violence to correct those issues will only make things worse, not better for the 99.9% that he wants to represent...

Let's see if Boll will attempt to make another installment to improve the series and his message... There are plenty of people who came out of "retirement" to do what they love... and his fight for a better society is far from over...

Action and violence seem beyond the point after a protagonist, a bad guy, recites the entire progressive world-view as his motive to kill.

Otherwise I'd give this piece of garbage a solid 7 for action, and well spent low budget. But the magic was spoiled after the climate change and gun control tirade.

The funniest part, the riots that are motivated by a same Marxist following are declared right-wing extremists. Tell me about deliberately missing the point.

So as an aftermath - what did I learn after watching this litter? Don't trust people peddling Marxist ideologies.

Go wash the car instead. Films like this don't deserve and full length review.

I imagine there will not be lots of folks who will enjoy the diatribe of this movie but Hollywood only backs movies where the so called good guys win. I stumbled upon this movie, never saw either of the first two movies or saw a review of this and the character Bill Williamson is spot on with some of his remarks. I'm a 76 year old Vietnam veteran and strongly believe that those in service to the country, cops, the armed forces etc are nothing but tools for the 0.1%

I have a tremendous amount to say about Rampage 3 so bear with me.

Rampage: President down is the third and hopefully final movie in a Uwe Boll created franchise that is very uncomfortable viewing. Written by him and lead star Brendan Fletcher the story of all three movies is essentially an angry young man who dons body armour and automatic weapons and goes on rampages killing countless innocents. And he's the lead, therefore it's very hard to care about the protagonist or rather the films don't have one. Throughout the films he spews his reasons which are a combination of left and right wing politics.

Now to be clear much of what he says makes perfect sense and I agree with him, but they are in no way reasons to kill innocent people let alone bring about the finale of this film.

This is the movie creator Uwe Boll went on a rant about online. Because he couldn't get in funded on Kickstarter he attacked the public verbally claiming they were stupid for watching Hollywood films and being sheep. Boll was already hated, this didn't help his case.

Now I don't mind him, I think the man is an idiot but as a film maker he's fine. Yes he's made some stinkers, some really bad films in fact and I think this franchise is the crown jewel of crap.

Next something has to be noted. As I mentioned our leads rants are a combination of political stances, and for that reason it was inevitable you'd have people make the whole film politically motivated (Which it clearly isn't). The highlighted review on the IMDB page is a gentleman claiming the entire film is "Leftist" propaganda. This demonstrates to me that he doesn't understand left stances and certainly doesn't have a clue what propaganda is. A movie involving a character talking about subjects that you disagree with is no more propaganda than Black Panther was for African American succession.

Have you ever noticed how people treat left/right like football teams, vigorously defending them to the point of hostility? Have you noticed how all the derogative terms come from one side? Leftist, Libtard, Snowflake all aimed at the Left from the Right. The side that supports guns, has a history of bigotry, homophobia, racism and theocratic views is the hostile one? Does this surprise anyone?

This movie isn't propaganda for either political stance, to claim so is pitiful and screams agenda. The person in question who made such a ridiculous claim has a profile made up of the VAST majority of films getting a 1/10. Hateful individual which again isn't much of a surprise. Get a grip.

This final movie is well written and certainly has talking points but as a form of entertainment it is very much lacking. I fail to see the point of 90 minutes of a man killing innocent people.

The Good:

Matt Frewer

Well written for the most part

A great movie for "Talking points"

The Bad:

Uncomfortable viewing

Who am I supposed to be rooting for?

Things I Learnt From This Movie:

White people CAN be referred to as terrorists

Claiming real living celebrities are dead in a movie is really rather unpleasant

...... quit watching it after about 20 minutes to find some reviews to see if anyone else thought it was as bad as I.

I felt like the author was anti-America and wanted to put his personal views in a movie. Everything this Bill Williamson stood for I stood against. It was about as dull as a butter knife. It was very unrealistic. Slow, dull and boring. No thanks. I'm glad I didn't pay money to watch it because I would be demanding a refund. Truly pathetic.

Did Scorsese, Coppola or Spielberg always hit a Home Run? No. This is a good movie that perhaps could have been a bit better. But you are missing the point. The important thing is Bill Williamson delivering a message to the camera. All the other stuff is frosting. The message is the cake. Some people are in it just to lick the frosting because they cannot handle the cake. There is so much wrong with our "world" today that it would take many Bill Williamsons to "cleanse" the corrupt lice out of here. Of course if you are a 1% person with way too much money then you would not like Bill (or Uwe for that matter). Take a good look at what is being offered to Americans for Presidential candidates. No wonder the rest of the World is laughing at us. The two over-stuffed couches we get to choose from sure makes Bill seem like the logical solution. So there.

Bill Williamson is back. He's not done with his crusade against the establishment, against the rich, against the so called elite. Brendan Fletcher plays again the role of Bill Williamson so there is not really a change. I didn't watch the second one but it really doesn't matter to follow this story. It's basically a guy killing a lot of people from the government this time, a guy angry against society. Rich people will probably not understand this movie but the rest of us might enjoy it a bit. This one is not better then the first one, it almost never is, but it's still watchable. The way of filming looks sometimes a bit like done by an amateur, so that's not great. It's just a movie good enough to watch once and then forget about it.

I admire Uwe Boll. Honestly. The man loves his job... he loves making movies. And despite the constant (and well-deserved) backlash he received throughout the great majority of his career, he never stopped doing what he loved. So I gotta give the man some major respect. He might have made terrible films, and he might have been a bit... overly "abrasive" and "passionate" when things didn't go his way, but he struggled and fought to do what he wanted. And that's more than many can say.

In some ways, it seems all too appropriate for Boll's (alleged) final film to also be the concluding chapter in his genuinely popular "Rampage" trilogy. Since the release of the original film back in 2009, this particular trilogy seemed to be the thing that kept Boll completely and utterly invested in his career as a film director. You can tell that they are perhaps his most personal work and that he's actually putting his heart and soul into their creation. And you get a sense that anything else he's made since 2009 has only been side-projects that he worked on out of obligation.

In a strangely subdued narrative in comparison to the trilogy as a whole, we again follow Bill Williamson (played wonderfully by co- writer Brendan Fletcher) as he struggles with the ramifications of his previous "rampages"- most notably his recent assassination of the President of the United States. Williamson is now a father of an infant son, and he worries that his message is being lost by a media that is more focused on his body-count than on his attempts at delivering a misguided message. As the authorities try to crack down on him and take him out once and for all, Bill prepares himself for what might just be his final rampage... Desperately hoping that his philosophies will finally get through to the public once and for all.

I wasn't a massive fan of the original film, but I did find it one of Boll's more palatable works and also one of his most stylish. It was a decent enough movie about a man pushed to the brink and lashing out against a society that he feels increasingly oppressed by. However, I found the second installment ("Capital Punishment") to be a preachy mess that was far too in love with its own flawed ideals to really function properly in any capacity. It's musings and ideologies were half-baked and self-aggrandizing nonsense, and it became too obviously a shallow attempt to appeal to the teenaged and 20-something wannabe armchair- revolutionaries that have been popping up more and more recently. Thankfully, I think "President Down" improves on the second chapter and probably sits just below the original. If you enjoyed the first film, I can't imagine you'd be disappointed by its concluding chapter.

Star Brendan Fletcher is the main draw for this final chapter, and he's giving it his absolute best shot. I've always really enjoyed Fletcher as a performer, and it's really a shame that he's not more widely recognized and is constantly saddled in low- budget B-movie roles- the guy can act his heart out and has a lot of appeal. I also feel Fletcher's contributions to the writing are invaluable, given his insight into the character of Bill Williamson. It was also quite clever for the film to spend more time with Bill as a person first and a "terrorist" second. It gave the film more of an emotional impact... something that was desperately lacking in the previous installment. You actually do kind of care about Bill this time around, psychotic thought he may be. It's quite ambitious, being Boll's most character- intensive work to date.

Unfortunately, the film suffers for Boll's continued wonky direction, his obsession with the shaky "morals" on display and a cripplingly low budget. Boll is one of those directors... he seems to understand the "language" of film and can wrap his head around what works and doesn't work on a technical level. But he doesn't seem to grasp how to use this knowledge to put together a scene. And thus, the film comes off as amateurish as ever from a directorial standpoint. Much like many of his recent film, he relies on shaky-cam style camera-work to a fault, and seems afraid to let any shot go on for more than a few seconds, which gets distracting far too often. His sense of story structure is also pretty suspect, as is his continued insistence to try and elevate the film into something more than it is. You can tell Boll thinks the movie is an important piece of fiction. And he relishes in letting Bill expound ridiculous amounts of preaching dialog warning of the dangers of the social and political institutions at play. But it's all common knowledge for anyone with half a brain. And given that this is the same film series where Bill executed a woman over yoga of all things in the second entry, it comes off as flat and "false." You can't take it seriously. And good lord, do the budget cuts show on-screen. The film is laughably cheap-looking, with the majority of sequences taking place in the same three or four small, cramped rooms and the big, titular "rampage" being a mere portion of what was on-display in the other installments.

Still, I do think that the ambition on display with the honest attempts at character development and the powerhouse performance by Brendan Fletcher make it worth it a go if you were a fan of the previous films. It might not quite measure up to the depraved insanity of the original, but it's at least watchable and serves as an appropriate cap to the trilogy. And for film buffs, it's worth seeing as the supposed final film from one of cinema's most infamous figures. Part of me will miss you, Boll.

I give "Rampage: President Down" a sub-par but watchable 4 out of 10.

This movie was a complete waste of film. Uwe Boll has got to be the worst director since Ed Wood, and the fact that he and his "star" wrote this abortion will solidify the fact that he sucks as a writer too.

This movie is nothing but a leftist propaganda wet dream (the irony being that most leftists are afraid of guns). Bill Williamson comes as nothing but a petulant punk, someone who thinks he has it all figured out, but is literately nothing more than a retard in a suit of ballistic armor.

The suits that greenlit this movie should have the crap kicked out of them. The fact that Boll has a career, even after failure upon failure is a testament to the lack of creativity in Hollywood.

This movie fails on all levels, storytelling, directing, action, political commentary, social commentary. There is not a single redeeming thing in this movie. I wish I could sue the filmmakers to get the half hour of my life I spent watching this piece of garbage back. If I could give less than one star, I most certainly would.

Spend your time watching something else. This movie sucks.