Video game movie adaptations have (on the whole) been pretty terrible, not least among them the 2005 adaptation of Doom.

Dwayne Johnson was among those who starred in the flick, and has finally admitted to its faults as he goes for another video game gamble in Rampage.

"I lived the video game curse, because I made Doom," Johnson said to Total Film. "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."

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So why risk another video game movie? Well, Johnson said that he made sure everything was "buttoned up" in terms of script and the monsters in Rampage.

"Also making sure that there was a winking charm and humour in Rampage that, for me personally, was not in Doom," he added.

Doom flopped at the box office and was absolutely savaged by critics when it was released 13 years ago, holding a 19% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

As for Rampage, director Brad Peyton suggested that it has potential as the video game concept is people getting transformed into giant animals and destroying things.

"[Fans of the game] get all the things that you remember about it and you can smile about," he said.

"But then there's all this room to do things and build a story and build characters and do what I wanted. That allows us to exceed expectations and have a lot of fun and just deliver in a way that a good movie needs to deliver."

Rampage will be released on April 13 in the US and April 11 in the UK.

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