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'Rampage' Lowers The Bar On Razing A City

"There's something weirdly serene about a film that doesn't try any harder than it must," says critic Chris Klimek.
Naomie Harris and Dwayne Johnson battle giant mutant monsters in <em>Rampage. </em>

Nearly four months have elapsed since the release of Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, the latest two-titled PG-13 blockbuster headlined by Dwayne Johnson. The subject a of recent, glowing Rolling Stone profile that revealed he did not vote in 2016 but does not rule out running for the nation's swole-est office in the future, Johnson has somehow become America's most precious natural resource and its most abundant.

In his latest, — that's the full title; remarkably, not or or — he takes on nature itself, again, re-teaming with director Brad Peyton for another genial, efficient, low-stakes city-razing. There's something weirdly

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