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The film isn't just bad because of the dinosaurs' appearance, but it's the main reason why I don't like this movie. I don't dislike the dinosaurs because they have feathers, but I dislike them because they are too colorful. Velociraptor and Tyrannosaurus are both portrayed as ambush hunters, and ambush hunters are usually camouflaged. These dinosaurs are vibrant red and blue, and they stick out like a sore thumb against the forest backgrounds. There's a reason why most ambush predators don't look like birds of paradise. I get that the raptors' coloration is probably based on a cassowary, and cassowaries can be terrifying, but cassowaries don't have a similar niche to the raptors, so they aren't a very good comparison. I give the film a 3/10 because they were trying to make the dinosaurs accurate, but failed.

The Rampage movie is not very accurate to the source material, which is why I give it 5/10. I get that George and Lizzie had to be redesigned so that people wouldn't confuse them with King Kong or Godzilla, but they went too far with Lizzie (Lizzie is a Lizard or a Dinosaur in the games, but she's a Crocodile with spikes and fins in the movie). Also, the movie doesn't have as much humor as the games, which would normally be a good thing, but in this case, it's a bad thing because game Rampage game was meant to be more comedic. If the movie had nothing to do with RAMPAGE (1986), I would give the film a more generous 6 or 7/10.