Rampage

William Friedkin chose to adapt the novel by William P. Wood, and much like Cruising, Friedkin’s last sole writing credit, there’s a serious attempt to tackle something that just doesn’t quite come together. I have admiration for Friedkin’s attempts at serious efforts to make a topical film that actually has both feet in reality, except that it makes these rather wide-ranging assumptions about the audience’s perception of the central issue that needed more explanation in the film itself whil...