Rampage Won't Be Bad Like Doom According To Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson

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Video game movies have a curse because most of them are horrible, or they either fail at the Box Office.

Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson is about to give the genre another go with 'Rampage', although his first attempt failed thanks to the 2005 flop called 'Doom'.

The Doom video games are awesome because they are pretty much about a tough guy killing lots of demons and monsters on Mars.

Sadly, the film version of Doom from 2005 was nothing like the video games and was a dark and boring mess.

For a very long time, Dwayne Johnson had been hesitant to do another video game movie thanks to the poor reception of Doom. Well he has changed his mind with Rampage because he promises his latest film won't suck. 

Total Film Magazine (via Games Radar) interviewed Johnson about his new movie and the actor promises Rampage is better thanks to a better story and more humor. You can read some of his comments posted below. 

"I lived the video game curse, because I made Doom. And Doom was a movie based off a very popular video game and was incredibly unsuccessful. So I lived the curse, and I experienced it. Also making sure that there was a winking charm and humor in Rampage that, for me personally, was not in Doom." 

Not to mention Johnson is a far more recognized Hollywood actor now compared to his early days in 2005 when mostly only wrestling fans knew who he was. Rampage could finally break the video game movie curse. 

Rampage is not the only video game movie out this year. Later this month, we will also see the release of Tomb Raider which stars Alicia Vikander as the iconic Lara Croft character. 

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