Deserved a much better Swan Song

So he has stated this would be his final movie but yet I see another movie is in the works called 12 hours.

Regardless of that... It's a shame his "good" flicks didn't do as well as they should have. I guess you make one too many bad films and the world hates you for it.

My main focus is on this movie though.

I liked Rampage a lot... and the second one was good as well. I think I gave Rampage 8/10 and the sequel 7/10.

The 3rd film obviously suffers from a lack of budget which apparently he had trouble getting for this film and it shows. I think it's a shame maybe his best efforts in making a nice trilogy got screwed even though the movie got made and delivered the same message it was probably always going to deliver but it felt cheapened even compared to Capitol Punishment.

He shows footage from both movies and you can see he had to throw in footage here and there from other movies probably because he simply did not really have enough footage alone for this installment.

I imagine that in his mind this was going to be a balls-to-the-wall shootout but what ends up happening is far from what the trilogy deserved and I don't think it's his fault, but rather the lack of funds to deliver.

There is also another director out there who came short of getting funding who is REALLY talented, Steven Mena, who directed Malevolent and Bereavement. He pretty much started Alexandra Daddario's career. He tried to nail down the directing job in the Texas Chainsaw remake with her in it but they opted for someone else.... big mistake.

Mena has never done a bunch of crap films either... which Boll has been known for... but the problem is the same. There are films out there now getting made that are utter trash, and no one even sees them because they are THAT bad... The boards are dead... literally no exposure. They get maybe 1-2 million to make utter trash but Mena can't even get 750K to finish his trilogy. Bereavment got 3.6 million and looked GREAT... It Follows got I think 5 million and looked fantastic.

Anyways... Mena shot 75% of his movie then one of the main actors killed himself screwing over everyone and the fans to the franchise for now. He thinks he might be able to do something better from what he was going to create but there is simply no timeframe on it.

I'm comparing Rampage 3 to the likes of this film because Uwe at least finished the movie... so he's lucky on that aspect of it.

Steven has a bit of a higher standard though and said he can't finish the movie without it looking like a dog turd... my words, not his.

So end rant... 6/10 for the final film... I can see that he wanted this to be the epic finale but we got more of a whisper than a bang. Still... very watchable and better than 75% of Boll's earlier films.

Had he had the proper funding.... heck... even 3-5 million, he probably could have made this the best movie out of the 3 based on how it plays out. He shot the majority of what he needed too it just wasn't as good as it could have been. The FX were weak or non-existent... Sure there was some explosions and such but the choreography was terrible and ill planned. There was literally no blood squibs or anything like the first Rampage film. It's a shame he couldn't even get the funding for what I'm guessing that movie cost.

After you guys see it, you'll know what I mean.

Sure Boll has made a lot of crappy films.... but... with the right material he's shown he can actually direct a decent film. Attack on Darfur, Rampage, and Assault on Wall Street. So take his best movies and give him the budgets he pissed away on the earlier films. It seems he directed many crappy video game movies, which somehow got financed, but when he starts making decent films... he can't get financed. I mean, 20 million for Alone in the Dark...??? It certainly looked decent for back then, but he didn't write that film. I'm sure he realizes that he pissed away good money and wishes he could reverse time but he cannot.

Also people started rating his movies bad just because he directed them and I know they didn't even see it. It was like a cool trend to rag on Uwe Boll at one point...probably around 2008 or so it got really bad.

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