Rogue (Unrated)

This movie is great. This movie is great because it has no business being as good as it is.Set in Australia, a group on a small tour boat investigate a distress flare that takes them off course. Their boat gets struck by a large croc that leaves the tourists stranded on a small island in the middle of a river. They must figure out how to get to safety before the water rises covering the island leaving them defenseless against the massive crocodile. Director Greg McLean (Wolf Creek & The Belko Experiment) has a gift for creating dread on screen. The characters aren't particularly well developed- but we aren't here to watch a movie about tourists. The terror is brilliant, a couple times I was yelling out "Holy sheet!" If you are a fan of horror, this movie is for you. I even lent my copy to a couple co-workers who found it to be just as satisfying.It's a funny story how I discovered this movie. I had been looking online for the "Best Crocodile/Alligator Movie" and this film topped many of the lists! I had to track it down, but unless you are willing to pay for it on YouTube, you can't stream this anywhere. There is a free version on YT but they speed up the movie as it goes on. So the DVD hard copy was my best option.

THE STORY: Australian outback tour boat responding to a distress call suffers motor trouble and ends up grounded on a sandbar in a remote river channel deep in the heart of the remote wilderness. Surrounded by high cliff walls, her little two-way radio is unable to reach outside the valley to call for help. Very soon it becomes apparent that the feisty female captain & her group of hapless passengers are trapped in a swampy cul-de-sac that's home to a very large, very irritable and very hungry crocodile. As night begins to fall and the tide slowly rolls in, the tiny sandbar they're stranded on gets smaller and smaller and smaller. Will anybody make it out alive?THOUGHTS: ROGUE was more or less what I expected, but at the same time wasn't. That's a GOOD thing! It is far superior to the vast majority of other giant animal on the rampage, direct-to-DVD (or SyFy channel) gunk filling video store shelves these days. Is the movie 100% perfect? Of course not, but it is both satisfying & genuinely scary. It pleasantly surprised me by not adhering to the cookie-cutter formula that most of these genre films follow. It's scary without being gratuitously bloody & gory and, here's a real shocker... there are no bimbo coeds yanking off their tops or bonehead jocks getting drunk and acting stupid just before getting eaten. Don't misunderstand me, because ROGUE is definitely NOT family-friendly viewing, but at least the filmmakers didn't stoop to ratcheting the violence up to the Nth degree just to cater to the torture porn crowd. ROGUE is well-directed & beautifully photographed, with minimal (but excellent) CGI creature effects. Top notch acting and, in another refreshing change, no dumbly-written characters who do completely unbelievable things and who you just know are going to die, which so many of these films have in spades. Kudos to the entire cast & crew of this terrific little horror-thriller.THE DVD: Audio & video are very good on this DVD, which also includes a fair amount of bonus content. All-in-all ROGUE is well worth the money, and the time spent watching it. 5 STARS

Every spooky season needs a good giant animal monster movie, and "Rogue" is a perfect one. A group of tourists get stranded on a tidal river island after a giant salt water crocodile attack. While trying to figure out how to escape, one by one the group is made smaller as tourists get chomped to bits. There are several tense set pieces, a good range of characters from the despicable to the heroic, and a great final showdown between man and crocodile. Fun spooky season movie!

A travel journalist (Michael Vartan as Pete) soon finds himself stuck on a crappy boat with a bunch of yappy tourists sailing through Kakadu National Park. There are flies everywhere bothering man and beast. A couple of local yokels (Sam Worthington) and (Damien Richardson) harass the cruise for reasons unknown. Things are fine until they spot a flare and decide to investigate. They find a wreck half submerged but before they can fully grasp the implications an unseen predator grabs a guy off the boat and causes their boat untold damage, stranding them on a tiny island. The water is rising. Night is falling. Only the local yokels know where they are and when they show up to harass them some more, they get more than they expect. Will they all survive the night without turning on one another or doing something truly stupid?The plot is fairly basic and overly familiar. But it is tense and unnerving, more so because you really don’t get to see the monster croc until quite late in the movie. Most of the time it’s treated as an unseen force. On its initial release to theaters, Rogue was a box office failure. Goodness knows why.

Después de impactar con Wolf Creek, Greg McLean realiza esta cinta infravalorada, que a diferencia de otras cintas, el cocodrilo no se dirige a ciudades o pueblos para atacar a los humanos, son ellos quienes invaden su hábitat, aunque no a propósito.Pero siendo este un animal salvaje que vive alejado de los de su tipo (he ahí el título), no hace más que lo que su naturaleza le dicta.Bien actuada, con un -en ese entonces- desconocido Sam Worthington, Scream Queen Radha Mitchell que con esta suma una cinta más de terror (me encanta) y Michael Vartan.En la película nos van mostrando poco a poco al animal, pero una vez que lo muestran en su totalidad es increíble, la cinta tiene buen ritmo, buen suspenso, un climax espectacular y un cocodrilo que si provoca temor.El DVD de Dimension Extreme tiene audio en inglés y subtítulo en español.Ojalá ya la editen en Blu-ray…

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The best crocodile creature feature ever made. Definitely worth buying if you're a fan of the genre, or of Aussie horror films. Highly recommended.

This is an awesome film. I seen it kicking around but never had a desire to see it. I had seen movies like Aligator & Lake Placid which are good films in their own right, but I felt once you've seen one Aligator/Croc film you've seen em all.It was only after I read online people praising 2 Aussie croc films & some were calling this the Jaws of the Aligator/Croc genre that I decided that I had to see it. Once I did I wasn't disappointed.To sum up the story. In outback Australia a tour boat answers a flare distress signal & soon all hell breaks loose.The other Aussie Crocodile film definitely worth checking out aswell is called Black Water.its also a 5 star film.

This film took me back a few years.Usually nowadays decently acted and directed creature films are of the reality ilk ("The Reef", "Open Water", "Cloverfield"): there is little story, it is more about the reality and putting audiences in the situation. That is no bad thing as it brings new tension to the genre; however, it is nice to watch a good creature flick that favours story telling and character development. "Rogue" is just this: a good old-fashioned monster movie given a bright, new modern lick of paint.The setting is the backwaters of Australia (think the crocodile rivers in "Crocodile Dundee") and an American magazine writer (Michael Varton) goes on a touristy boat trip (led by "Silent Hill"'s Radha Mitchell) where camera-happy foreigners get to snap photos of the crocs in their natural envoironment. It soon goes wrong, though: after encountering a pair of local bad-boy rednecks (Sam Worthington and friend), the party see a distress signal and go into forbidden waters. Here they become stranded on a small island and must face the dual problem of a giant man-eating croc and the tidal river rising to cover the island.Given that this film was directed by Greg McLean (the man who directed "Wolf Creek") I was surprised by the shift from reality (documentary-style) backpacking film to a more classic storytelling approach. It really works well and (in similar fashion to the creature movies of old) you get to see the beast gradually. The effects are stunning and totally realistic and the sense of scale of the croc is impressively given even more authenticity through the excellent sound work (it's snapping, chomping jaws and heavy tail smashing into the water).It's obviously not as good as "Jaws", but then most films (of any genre) aren't. It is right up there in the second-tier of monster movies, though, and if you are a fan of this sort of film then this is an essential purchase. The acting is quality, the setting and tension atmospheric and the effects realistic. I end up sending many of the horror films I buy to the charity shop, but this one will be watched again. Enjoy.