Big meets bigger in the new action blockbuster starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson – one of the three new movies opening at Nu Metro cinemas in Pretoria this week.
Rampage
(13LV)
Showing in the fully immersive Xtreme and multi-sensory 4DX-theatres at Nu Metro Menlyn Park; also showing in 3D at all other cinemas.
Primatologist Davis Okoye (Dwayne Johnson), a man who keeps people at a distance, shares an unshakable bond with George, the extraordinarily intelligent silverback gorilla that has been in his care since birth. But a genetic experiment gone awry mutates this gentle ape into a raging creature of enormous size. To make matters worse, it is soon discovered there are other similarly altered animals. As these newly created alpha predators tear across North America, destroying everything in their path, Okoye teams with a discredited genetic engineer to secure an antidote, fighting his way through an ever-changing battlefield – not only to halt a global catastrophe, but to save the fearsome creature that was once his friend.
Here Comes the Grump
(7-9PG)
Showing at all Nu Metro cinemas
Spending summer holiday at Grandma Mary’s amazing Groovyland Theme Park was an awesome experience for an unassuming boy like Terry. With the help of Grandma’s overzealous imagination, he could dream about visiting enchanted lands filled with psychedelic walking flowers, talking balloons, clumsy dragons and maybe even a princess or two. But now his grandmother is gone and the theme park is threatened with closure. Desperately unhappy, Terry finds himself clinging on to the old times and his memories of her hippy-dippy stories.
A tiny bit of magic left behind on one of the theme park rides sweeps him away and before he knows it, he finds himself stranded in a very real, very cool, very magical land in this new animated adventure! But one that certainly is not as carefree or as happy as Grandma had led him to believe – an evil wizard, Grump, has cast a spell of gloom over the land and now smiling and laughter are a thing of the past. Can Terry save the day and get back home?
Roman J. Israel, Esq.
(13LP)
Showing at Nu Metro Menlyn Park only.
Denzel Washington and Colin Farrell star in this striking crime-drama centred around the underbelly of the overburdened Los Angeles criminal court system. A driven, idealistic defence attorney’s life is upended when his mentor, a civil rights icon, dies. When he is recruited to join a firm led by one of the legendary man’s former students – the ambitious lawyer George Pierce – and begins a friendship with a young champion of equal rights, a turbulent series of events ensues that will put the activism that has defined Roman’s career to the test.
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