I thought the first “Rampage” film from director Uwe Boll (“BloodRayne”, “Alone In The Dark”) was about as despicable as you could get. It was essentially a guide showing you how to plan and execute a shooting spree. This sequel plays like outright terrorist propaganda. Parts of it feel indistinguishable from videos of Osama bin Laden.

Bill Williamson (Brendan Fletcher “Freddy vs. Jason”) is back. He takes hostages at a television studio so that they can broadcast his message of rebellion against the rich and powerful. He rants about the evils of the criminal justice system, corporatism, military interventionism and a host of other loosely connected subjects. He doesn’t care who he has to hurt to get his call to violence out there.

In the first film, we discovered Williamson wasn’t actually that interested in politics and orchestrated the whole massacre as a cover to steal money. Now, he’s suddenly wanting a revolution. The character is just boring. He’s a nihilist as he never actually explains what kind of society he does want; he just knows he wants to kill rich folks. The other characters are bland. Boll even has a cameo as the studio executive. His acting is as bad as his directing.

You can explore themes of violence against society’s elites but there is a world of difference between this and a brilliant movie such as “Joker” and even “Battle Royale II: Requiem”. “Capital Punishment” has nothing interesting to say, it’s just an angry and hateful movie. This film isn’t even that graphically violent yet the ideas here just come purely from a place of anger and hatred. If the first film supplied the methodology of terrorism, this sequel supplies the ideology. I don’t normally like to link films with real-life violence but the “Rampage” movies to seem to strive to bring the two together.