History Film / Rampage2009

''Rampage'' is a 2009 independent film directed by Creator/UweBoll starring Creator/BrendanFletcher in the lead role. Despite its name and the fact that it's made by a director most famous for video game adaptations, it is not connected to [[{{VideoGame/Rampage}} Midway's series or the 2018 movie adaptation]]. The plot concerns a young man named Bill Williamson posting vlog rants about how the world is overpopulated and society's going down the drain, while building a suit of body armor and stocking up on weapons, leading up to a bloodthirsty rampage through his town. Amazingly, given the poor reputation of its director, [[SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct it's actually a pretty good movie]]. The sequels are about Bill trying to rile up others through means of Internet or television to join in on his rampage.

Not to be confused with the Dwayne Johnson movie ''Film/Rampage2018''.

''Rampage'' is a 2009 independent film directed by Creator/UweBoll starring Creator/BrendanFletcher in the lead role. Despite its name and the fact that it's made by a director most famous for video game adaptations, it is not connected to [[{{VideoGame/Rampage}} Midway's series or the 2018 movie adaptation]]. The plot concerns a young man named Bill Williamson (no, not ''[[VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption that]]'' [[VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption Bill Williamson]]) posting vlog rants about how the world is overpopulated and society's going down the drain, while building a suit of body armor and stocking up on weapons, leading up to a bloodthirsty rampage through his town. Amazingly, given the poor reputation of its director, [[SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct it's actually a pretty good movie]]. The sequels are about Bill trying to rile up others through means of Internet or television to join in on his rampage.

->''"I want you to change the world, and I don’t think that this is going to happen peacefully or you can do it alone. We need to KillTheRich! You get out there, you use your weapons, you rip Washington apart!"''

->''"I want you to change the world, and I don’t think that this is going to happen peacefully or you can do it alone. We need to Kill the Rich! You get out there, you use your weapons, you rip Washington apart!"''

* HollywoodLaw: In one of his political rants, Bill claims that firearms purchases do not mandate background checks, and cites this as proof of the gun industry's greed making mass murderers such as himself possible. In truth, this gets complicated. Licensed firearms businesses (where, obviously, the overwhelming majority of gun sales take place) or "[=FFLs=]" are obligated under federal law to perform background checks on ALL their customers. No matter the location--there is no such thing as an internet or gun show "loophole" for any lawful purchase. ''Private'' purchases, where one person might decide to sell a gun to one of their friends living in the same state, do not. If it's across state lines, an FFL will have to act as a middle-man. Calls for "universal background checks" effectively just amounts to taxing non-business individuals who probably cannot afford such a burden, in addition to possibly trespassing on privacy rights. In other words, Bill's statement is ''technically'' (kind of) correct, but [[MetaphoricallyTrue highly misleading]].

* BittersweetEnding:
** From the second film: most of the hostages Bill had survives. However Bill himself survives after killing all the police officers and Chip. Furthermore in the last scene he encourages a young girl who was reading a book to kill her parents by giving her a gun.
** The third film has an even worse one. After his latest rampage Bill dies from his recent injuries and justice is finally served. However, all the FBI officers and SWAT members that were featured are dead, including Jonses and Molokai and Bill's girlfriend is left utterly devastated and must now raise their child on her own. What's worse is that Bill has now started utter chaos by urging people to target and kill elite and wealthy people and the film ends with news reporting multiple deaths worldwide before the homeless man Bill encountered earlier kills two people (one of whom was a news anchor) at a news station while raving that Bill "changed his life" and shoots the camera.

* VillainHasAPoint: Bill makes points many people would agree with. Of course, it's detracted from by his being a sociopathic mass murderer [[NotSoDifferent not unlike those he rants about]] in the sequel.

* ClimateChange: Bill insists it's real, being exacerbated by human activities like burning fossil fuels and deforestation, and details in his interview to Chip that given the current yet growing rate of global warming's damage done to the environment, the earth will be irreversibly uninhabitable by 2100.

* BigBrotherIsWatching: Bill in his video messages protests that the [=NSA=] should not be recording and keeping track of every phone call, email and text message sent by American citizens because that is an infringement on personal privacy and rights. Bill hails the efforts of Julian Assange, Bradley/Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden in exposing these secrets and asserts that they are hunted down and (except for Snowden, who fled to Russia) prosecuted by the US Government for providing information needed to protect democracy.

* BigBrotherIsWatching: Bill in his video messages protests that the [=NSA=] should not be recording and keeping track of every phone call, email and text message sent by American citizens because that is an infringement on personal privacy and rights. Bill hails the efforts of Julian Assange, Bradley/Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden in exposing these secrets and asserts that they are hunted down and (except for Snowden) prosecuted by the US Government for providing information needed to protect democracy.

* HollywoodLaw: In one of his political rants, Bill claims that firearms purchases do not mandate background checks, and cites this as proof of the gun industry's greed making mass murderers such as himself possible. In truth, this gets complicated. Licensed firearms businesses (where, obviously, the overwhelming majority of gun sales take place) or "[=FFLs=]" are obligated under federal law to perform background checks on ALL their customers. No matter the location--there is no such thing as an internet or gun show "loophole" for any lawful purchase. ''Private'' purchases, where one person might decide to sell a gun to one of their friends living in the same state, do not. If it's across state lines, an FFL will have to act as a middle-man. "Universal background checks" effectively places an additional tax on private individuals who probably cannot afford such a burden, in addition to possibly trespassing on privacy rights. In other words, Bill's statement is ''technically'' (kind of) correct, but [[MetaphoricallyTrue highly misleading]].

''Rampage'' is a 2009 independent film directed by Creator/UweBoll starring Brendan Fletcher in the lead role. Despite its name and the fact that it's made by a director most famous for video game adaptations, it is not connected to [[{{VideoGame/Rampage}} Midway's series or the 2018 movie adaptation]]. The plot concerns a young man named Bill Williamson (no, not ''[[VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption that]]'' [[VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption Bill Williamson]]) posting vlog rants about how the world is overpopulated and society's going down the drain, while building a suit of body armor and stocking up on weapons, leading up to a bloodthirsty rampage through his town. Amazingly, given the poor reputation of its director, [[SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct it's actually a pretty good movie]]. The sequels are about Bill trying to rile up others through means of Internet or television to join in on his rampage.

* GlobalWarming: Bill insists it's real, being exacerbated by human activities like burning fossil fuels and deforestation, and details in his interview to Chip that given the current yet growing rate of global warming's damage done to the environment, the earth will be irreversibly uninhabitable by 2100.

* GlobalWarming: Bill insists it's real and details in his interview to Chip that given the current yet growing rate of global warming's damage done to the environment, the earth will be irreversibly ruined within only a century.

* WouldHitAGirl: Bill absolutely indulges in this trope for the first two movies before marrying Crystal in the third movie and retreating to an underground bunker with her. Also in the second movie, Bill orders a male hostage to beat up another female hostage though the former refuses because it goes against his principles. When Bill asserts that means he'll just shoot both of them if he doesn't, the male hostage reluctantly proceeds with the abuse.

* ThePessimist: Bill, who is very concerned about environmental degradation, global warming, water and air pollution and increasing wealth gaps where only the poor get poorer and the rich richer. He expects that Earth will not survive into the next century.

* SpreeKiller: The film centers on a domestic terrorist named Bill Williamson who plans out a shooting spree in great detail, including building a suit of armor and how to dispose of the local cops first so his mass murder can be carried out unperturbed. His first massacre was also to cover up a BankRobbery, but also initially openly advocates SocialDarwinism and then violent anarchism as well when he initiates another shooting spree in a television station, before attacking the government itself while calling for a revolt.

''Rampage'' is a 2009 independent film directed by Creator/UweBoll. Despite its name and the fact that it's made by a director most famous for video game adaptations, it is not connected to [[{{VideoGame/Rampage}} Midway's series or the 2018 movie adaptation]]. The plot concerns a young man named Bill Williamson (no, not ''[[VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption that]]'' [[VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption Bill Williamson]]) posting vlog rants about how the world is overpopulated and society's going down the drain, while building a suit of body armor and stocking up on weapons, leading up to a bloodthirsty rampage through his town. Amazingly, given the poor reputation of its director, [[SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct it's actually a pretty good movie]]. The sequels are about Bill trying to rile up others through means of Internet or television to join in on his rampage.

** The third film continues this, though this time with the FBI. They successfully track down Bill and identify him as the shooter of the U.S. President, but prove utterly competent when entering the forest to go find him as he planted surprise attacks and they have no idea who they're going up against.

** The third film continues this, though at least then it's helped by him having a mole in the FBI unit.

** In the first movie, he gets away with killing close to a hundred civilians, robbing a bank for its cash, escaping his dead-end job and break free from his parents' support.

* ActionGirl: At least one female police officer joins the fight against Bill in ''President Down''.

''Rampage'' is a 2009 independent film directed by Uwe Boll. Despite its name and the fact that it's made by a director most famous for video game adaptations, it is not connected to [[{{VideoGame/Rampage}} Midway's series or the 2018 movie adaptation]]. The plot concerns a young man named Bill Williamson (no, not ''[[VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption that]]'' [[VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption Bill Williamson]]) posting vlog rants about how the world is overpopulated and society's going down the drain, while building a suit of body armor and stocking up on weapons, leading up to a bloodthirsty rampage through his town. Amazingly, given the poor reputation of its director, [[SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct it's actually a pretty good movie]]. The sequels are about Bill trying to rile up others through means of Internet or television to join in on his rampage.

* OverpopulationCrisis: Bill's Casus belli for shooting innocent people on the streets in the first film (later he adopts other justifications).

* PoliceBrutality: Real-life footage of a black man being punched by police and the camera footage of Walter Scott (who eventually was shot in the back by Officer Michael Slager) fleeing from his car play in ''President Down''.

* FauxAffablyEvil: Bill can act friendly at times, but the majority of his actions paint him as TheBully who enjoys tormenting his victims.

A sequel, ''Rampage: Capital Punishment'', was released in 2014. The third and final film, ''Rampage: President Down'' was later released in 2016, which served as Boll's last film as a director. It was to be funded on Kickstarter, but failed to make its goal. Because of this Uwe Boll decided to retire from filmmaking after ''President Down'' and will no longer be making any movies at least until he acquires enough funds to resume making movies.

In April 2020, Uwe Boll said that he is developing a digital platform ''Rampage'' video game for Steam tentatively titled "President Evil" where you play as Bill Williamson and shoot down the President of the U.S. and launched a Kickstarter campaign for it. Supposedly, this game occurs between the second and third movie.

Not to be confused with the 2018 movie ''Film/Rampage2018''.

Not to be confused with the Dwayne Johnson movie ''Film/Rampage2018''.