Last Rampage: The Escape of Gary Tison

This movie keeps you tensed since it's beginning. The fact that this story happened in real world some forty years ago makes you feel chill throughout especially during those murder scenes. Good acting by everyone. I was taken aback by surprise when I saw Heather Graham playing a role of an old woman. She acted really well.

I like how it sticks to the source material, but because as is... it may not be as action packed as blockbuster. I think it is more like a documentary if anything. So... it is what it is, a bit boring, but interesting to learn history.

Its been done before (with a much better team of actors) so why repeat the tale of such a a dreary low level thug?

The events were previously depicted in the 1983 film, "A Killer in the Family", starring Robert Mitchum as Gary Tison, with his sons played by James Spader as Donny Tison, Eric Stoltz as Ricky Tison and Lance Kerwin as Ray Tison. This 2017 version is based on the non-fiction book Last Rampage: The Escape of Gary Tison by University of Arizona Political Science Professor James W. Clarke.

The book read must be as dull a read as the film was in dull viewing content. I don't know why American Directors/Producers/audiences are so interested in such bottom crawler dross story's about thugs; after all they are certainly no Al Capone level thugs! If they are so enraptured about the early days of American scumbags they should at least use the plentiful stock knowledge about people the US public will have at least heard of...like JFK's gangster father Joe or the wife beating Richard Nixon (the highest corruption level government thug in America's political history) The list goes on and on ...and on!

Watch if you want to but I will be perfectly honest with you...IMHO it was worthless, uninteresting and pointless in its making! But you won't know that unless you watch it and there is your dilemma :)

So, now Robert Patrick has played two perfect roles. The second Terminator and, with "Last Rampage", the irredeemable killer Gary Tison.

While he is the best part of this film, his partner in crime, Randy Greenwalt, is equally well played by Chris Browning. The rest of the cast is stellar, too - you'll empathize with Bruce Davison's portrayal of "Cooper", the ensemble cop honor-bound to end the Tison Gang's "Last Rampage".

This film is violent and excruciating. Violent, because it's about violent escapees. Excruciating, because we all know young men who mistakenly grow to admire wicked fathers only to run afoul of their father's sins. Who would willingly place all three of their sons in harm's way? Simple. A psychopath.

Watch this film for a solid and inspired rendition of real-life horror and actual monsters. Then you'll know why you should never, ever stop for stranded strangers waiting alongside a desert highway at night!

The story is outdated one and the ending is easily predictable. As this is low budget movie, U can see very few action or shooting scene. It looks like TV Drama and one time watchable.