hyped garbage

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

This review will irritate some people I know and I don't care. The movie was great by the way and Robert Patrick is awesome. It's a much better version than the one made in 1983. I just want to look at it -being a real event took place 70s- from a different perspective. Just think about from Lyonses' perspective -the family they killed-. So this poor fellow stops in the middle of the night, in the middle of nowhere to HELP some poor kid. He could have driven on, think about the family he is supposed to protect right? No, he chooses to stop and help. Why? Probably because he has certain religious teachings settled in his mind saying God would love people helping each other(and not necessarily hate stupid people, does He?) or/and some similar ethics and moral came from the society he was raised into, saying 'you need to be good to other people' ... and he choses to be good. He chooses to be good to be reckless and stupid because highly possible that when acting in such high sprit -even though against all odds-, God or Karma or something would protect him. No, in the next minutes he sees(or even doesn't) all his loved ones get killed by vicious people they didn't know before. The only reason we should be good is because with good people this crazy world is going to get better, otherwise it'll be a chaos and we will not like it. It's NOT because some stupid book or books written thousands of years ago said so. Being good is good but that should not sacrifice our rational thinking.

This true crime drama about the 1978 prison break of murderer Gary Tison plays like a standard made-for-television drama.At the start of the film, the character of Tison comes across as a wise guy spouting off one-liners like "B. F. Goodrich is a good tire," just as the tire is about to go flat on the getaway car. Tison's escape from the Arizona prison was not due so much to his planning or the assistance he received from his fawning sons. Rather, the prison conditions were lax and the officials in charge were incompetent. After Tison and another inmate, Randy Greenawalt, escape, Tison demands complete loyalty from his sons, who become accessories to murder after Tison and Greenawalt kill six innocent people in cold blood.The filmmakers tried unsuccessfully to raise this tawdry crime drama to a biblical level. The film opens with a quote from Exodus about wrath of the God of the Old Testament: "I, the Lord Thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generations of them that hate me."Unfortunately, the scope of the film was not biblical, but filled only with pathos coming from a dysfunctional family. Tison was undone when he disrupted his escape plans to search for his brother whom he wanted to kill. The filmmakers probably want this to appear like the story of Cain and Abel, when Tison asserts that "Blood calls to blood, and blood answers back." But the final result was no more than the saga of a demented loser, willing to sacrifice the lives of his sons to save his own hide.It was the brother's tip about the Econoline truck driven by Tison and his boys that sealed his doom. The true motto of the sleazy Tison was not about "blood," but about cowardice, when, in dire straits, he yells, "Every man for himself!" So much for blood, family values, and paternal concern for his sons!

This film is a crime drama based on the true story of the prison escape of Gary Tison (Robert Patrick) and Randy Greenawalt (Chris Browning) with the assistance of Tison family members. The group run into a lot of bad luck on their way to the border as they have their "last rampage." The characters made the film interesting as Gary shoots a car and says, "It ain't easy to kill a Chrysler." The warden (John Heard) brushes off criticism by telling us 'hindsight is fifty fifty." Heather Graham does an excellent job as Gary's wife who doesn't believe the official records. She shielded her sons from the truth which resulted later with some internal drama.Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity.

Last Rampage at times reminds me of In Cold Blood. It's got a huge cloud of impending doom and how bad it gets only depends on how many people cross paths with Gary Tison. His sons, though guilty of abetting Gary are not unlike victims themselves. Gary is purely evil and he gets particularly desperate attempting to flee to Mexico. Gary, however, has little in the way of a plan.. Everyday innocents who happen to be in the wrong place will be slaughtered.Gary Tison was a heartless murderer, a human being and father devoid of any morals. Gary has trouble getting to Mexico with the law closing in. he becomes as purely evil in every way. Rampage recounts Gary's final desperate attempt to get out of the country. Arizona State Police officer Cooper takes it personal and is a few very sad steps behind. The officer's only hope now is to find Gary to avert more senseless killing. Cooper puts everything into his manhunt as he understands what is at stake even to the point of personal redemption for a prison system that failed miserably.Last Rampage is a pretty solid B-Movie. It's a no frills tightly produced look into a particularly deadly criminal. It is not for entertainment so much as a true harrowing retelling of how a very bad man decided he has nothing left to loose as he scrambles for freedom. The way he claims to love his sons yet treats them with no love is heartbreaking. Gary uses this sons with no regard to throwing away their lives and injecting them into the deadliest of situations for his own selfishness. Things go about as bad as possible before the final resolution. Remember this is a true story and it's told pretty straight. This is cold blooded crime at it's worst and Last Rampage tells it straight making the viewer feel truly uneasy as you know all are doomed… again, reminding me somewhat of In Cold Blood falling just short of that classic. I guess that makes it a movie you have disgust for yet keep watching cause you can't turn away. Robert Patrick does an excellent job of bringing a animal in human flesh to life in his portrayal of Gary Tison.