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An idyllic wildlife cruise disintegrates into terror when a party of tourists are stalked by a massive man-eating crocodile. Pete McKell, a cynical American travel writer, joins a disparate group of holiday-makers on a river cruise through the waters of Kakadu National Park. Initially Pete clashes with their tour captain, Kate, a feisty young woman who assumes he is just another 'city-slicker' in search of a quick thrill. After an uneventful day cruising the river, Kate is reluctantly persuaded to steer their boat into unexplored territory. They discover a secluded lake but terror strikes when their craft receives a powerful blow from beneath the murky depths and begins to sink. With little choice, she beaches the vessel on the closest dry land -a tiny mud island. With a rising tide and only half an hour of daylight left, fear grips the group as they realize they are trapped in the lair of a 'rogue' crocodile, governed only by its need to hunt and kill. Begrudgingly, Pete and Kate join forces to keep hysteria at bay and in the process start to see beyond their initial impressions. Their first attempt to escape fails, but then Pete has an idea - they must trap the crocodile to enable the group to flee to the other side of the island whilst Kate swims for help. Pete volunteers to stand guard, but without warning, the beast breaks free and targets Kate who fails to resurface. As darkness descends and the muddy waters rise, a terrifying struggle ensues with only one probable outcome death.
Genre(s): Action, Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Runtime: 99 minutes
Rating: 6.6/10 (5,572 votes)
Release Date: 6 October 2007
Country: Australia, USA
Languages: English
Company: De Naray Sothcott Entertainment
Sound: Dolby Digital
MPAA: Rated R for language and some creature violence.
Director(s): Greg Mclean
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Producer(s):
Matt Hearn - producer
David Lightfoot - producer
Greg Mclean - producer
Bob Weinstein - executive producer
Harvey Weinstein - executive producer
Writer(s):
Greg Mclean - writer
Cast:
Radha Mitchell - Kate Ryan
Michael Vartan - Pete McKell
Sam Worthington - Neil Kelly
Caroline Brazier - Mary Ellen
Stephen Curry - Simon
Celia Ireland - Gwen
John Jarratt - Russell
Heather Mitchell - Elizabeth
Geoff Morrell - Allen
Damien Richardson - Collin
Music: Frank Tetaz
Matt Hearn - producer
David Lightfoot - producer
Greg Mclean - producer
Bob Weinstein - executive producer
Harvey Weinstein - executive producer
Writer(s):
Greg Mclean - writer
Cast:
Radha Mitchell - Kate Ryan
Michael Vartan - Pete McKell
Sam Worthington - Neil Kelly
Caroline Brazier - Mary Ellen
Stephen Curry - Simon
Celia Ireland - Gwen
John Jarratt - Russell
Heather Mitchell - Elizabeth
Geoff Morrell - Allen
Damien Richardson - Collin
Music: Frank Tetaz
Posted on: April 7, 2008
September 24th, 2008
Travel writer Peter McKell (Michael Vartan) is one of several touristspartaking in a boat tour of the Australian wilderness. The alwayswonderful Radha Mitchell plays Kate Ryan, their knowledgeable guide. Ontheir way back, they spot what they think is a flare fired in thedistance. Kate says she's obliged to check it out, so they head in thatdirection. What happens is that they end up in the domain of aparticularly stealthy, nasty, and large crocodile that strands them onan island that they will have to leave sooner or later before it getssubmerged by the tide.
Greg McLean here follows up his harrowing psycho-in-the-Outback tale"Wolf Creek" with this entertaining entry in the killer croc /alligator genre. It gets points from me for maintaining a certainamount of suspense and viewer involvement. It also plays out in aninteresting way, not quite adhering to a typical "pick off thecharacters one at a time" formula. Granted, the characters often taketurns grating on one's nerves, but neither are they too overbearing.
McLean and company are wise to keep their ferocious beast off screen asmuch as possible, in the effective "Jaws" tradition. Even when it is onscreen, it's kept in the dark (this movie makes great use of the dark)much of the time, making it genuinely scary.
Primary assets also include a stirring music score and gorgeous scenery(naturally). It's also nice to see "Wolf Creek" villain John Jarratt ina small supporting role here.
A better than average movie of its type, "Rogue" is decent horrorthat's definitely worth a look.
8/10
September 30th, 2008
Greg Mclean's follow up to Wolf Creek is much more than anotherbelaboured creature feature. It is a wonderful exercise in well-craftedtension, avoiding the horror movie pitfalls of staid and superfluoussplatter. The plot is simplicity itself but the direction and generallynaturalistic performances keep it from falling into cliché. The initialgentle pacing leads to a genuinely thrilling middle act, with atruckload of tension-creating devices slowly exerting more and morepressure on the dwindling human snacks.
The practical effects are squeamishly impressive and a pulsing vein ofpitch black humour provides expertly timed release between the thrills.As with Wolf Creek, Mclean captures the terrifyingly isolated beauty ofAustralia, with every insect intact and the sense of unrelenting heattruly palpable. Unfortunately, the final act disappoints – havingneither the careful pacing nor the plausibility of the previous hour.This, combined with some slightly distracting creature CG, means Rogueis not quite a classic but it has a lot more to offer than the averageHollywood fare.
October 10th, 2008
A group of tourists in the Australian waters, takes a detour when theyspot what they assume to be a signal for help, when they arrive, theydiscover a badly destroyed boat & soon their boat is attacked by a verymean, very big, killer crocodile!, escaping to safety, the group mustfind a way out of their terrifying predicament, especially when thetide rolls in & the spot their on is going under water fast. Soon thecrocodile starts treating the tourists as lunch meat. With ROGUE Iwasn't really expecting to much out of this killer crocodile flick, Ifigured at most I'd get to see a good, though not great crocodileflick, since many current films dealing on this subject have beenpretty bland, however ROGUE really blew me away at how much, fun &suspenseful it actually was! The actors were great & very believable,while Director GREG McLEAN manages to bounce back & create a trulyterrifying & very interesting horror outing which is more than I cansay for his previous film, the down right awful & boring WOLF CREEK,which is on my worst films ever made list. With ROGUE, Mclean managesto create much interest in his story & situations, even in scenes wherethere is nothing going on, your interest is still being held with thesecharacters & situations. Great scenery is also another of the filmspluses, if only it didn't have so many survivors at the end. Other thanthat nicely done!
***1/2 stars
October 16th, 2008
I just watched this last night on DVD and I was pleasantly surprised byhow taut and tense the film was. The atmosphere created by the locationof the film play a major role in the creepiness factor here – rockfaces look twisted and contorted, the murky green of the water becomessteadily more and more foreboding and the general sense of isolation isexcellently conveyed by the sweeping vistas of the lovely aerial shots.I think that some audiences might not like the fact that much of thebackground of the characters is only hinted at and not spelled out. Ifyou are observant you will pick several things up about the variouspeople on the tour boat but, having said that, some things are leftcompletely unexplained. I think that this works to the films advantage,though. A lean running time is a key factor in making a film like thiswork and 'Rogue' ticks this box by clocking in at just over 90 mins.The music of the film merits special mention, too. Often a film likethis suffers from having no distinguishable score to carry it but'Rogue' has some quite lovely pieces accompanying many scenes. Ifanything, I found the final act of the film (in the Croc's lair) theleast satisfying part of the film. This third act feels like anincongruous mainstream gesture in an otherwise smart horror flick. Ialso detected perhaps a wee nod to Lee Tamahori's extremely under-ratedman vs. nature flick 'The Edge' here. Overall, the tension of this filmis great and the performances of the actors are uniformly solid. A goodhorror flick.
November 5th, 2008
"Welcome to the Terrortory"
An idyllic wildlife cruise disintegrates into terror when a party oftourists are stalked by a massive man-eating crocodile. Pete McKell, acynical American travel writer, joins a disparate group ofholiday-makers on a river cruise through the waters of Kakadu NationalPark. Initially Pete clashes with their tour captain, Kate, a feistyyoung woman who assumes he is just another 'city-slicker' in search ofa quick thrill. After an uneventful day cruising the river, Kate isreluctantly persuaded to steer their boat into unexplored territory.They discover a secluded lake but terror strikes when their craftreceives a powerful blow from beneath the murky depths and begins tosink. With little choice, she beaches the vessel on the closest dryland -a tiny mud island. With a rising tide and only half an hour ofdaylight left, fear grips the group as they realize they are trapped inthe lair of a 'rogue' crocodile, governed only by its need to hunt andkill. Begrudgingly, Pete and Kate join forces to keep hysteria at bayand in the process start to see beyond their initial impressions. Theirfirst attempt to escape fails, but then Pete has an idea – they musttrap the crocodile to enable the group to flee to the other side of theisland whilst Kate swims for help. Pete volunteers to stand guard, butwithout warning, the beast breaks free and targets Kate who fails toresurface. As darkness descends and the muddy waters rise, a terrifyingstruggle ensues with only one probable outcome death.
Rogue all in all, is a solid effort. Wolf Creek director Greg McLeanmanages to build up the tension only showing glimpses of the horriblemonster that lies beneath the swamp for the first half of the movie.These little glimpses alone will definitely scare the bejesus out ofyou as it doesn't rely on "scare-you-with-a-black-cat" from somewherelike the current trend today in the horror genre. Like I said, hebuilds and builds the tension, slowly scaring you to death as it allleads up to one mind-blowing, heart pounding finale.
Another factor is the beast itself, the killer Saltwater crocodile. Itcame off as pretty convincing, the way they rendered the texture, theskin, the whole shebang. The movement of the killer croc was spot-ontoo. And unlike Lake Placid where the crocodile is as big as the HMSTitanic, this one stayed real giving the killer croc a believable size.All in all, if you crave for some spooky thrills and killer beasts, Isuggest you go see this one you won't be disappointed.
December 8th, 2008
I must say "Rogue" is a movie I had anticipated for a while, but Inever could get myself to get it.Probably just because I don't normallyhandle animal attack films very well, in fact I think they're probablythe scariest of the horror genre for me.Finally one day I just saidscrew it and get it.So I immediately put it in with relatively highhopes.When it was over I was glad I got it, and I was surprised that itwasn't to extreme for my taste in animal attack films.Okay well the 3main things I love about this film is, the beautiful shots of theAustralian outback, and how it makes you feel like you're reallythere.Second would be the story structure, I just love how in the firsthalf they don't rush it at all, but let it flow, and let you get toknow the characters and how on every minute your on the edge of yourseat with that feeling of knowing something will happen soon.Thirdwould be it's sense of claustrophobia, and how in a way you can relateto it.Plus overall the acting is good, and the action isentertaining.However I will say that when it gets toward the final actit gets a little rushed, and I wish they had gone more into thehappenings of the other tourists, as opposed to the main character.Thismovie entertains nevertheless, and it's one of the better killer animalfilms out there.Overall it's a good film, and if your a fan of thistype of genre I would recommend it.Also I'd recommend it for those whoare like me when it comes to this, because to me it doesn't seem asdemonic as some other killer animal films. Overall really good film.7.8 out of 10 stars
December 9th, 2008
I loved Rogue. It was a very well done movie and it totally lived up tomy expectations. It was very entertaining, the character structure wasamazing(They build their characters up to where you actually care forthem when some die), the plot was decent(Definitely different from mostanimal attack films), acting was perfectly fine, and you enjoy thewhole movie from start to finish. I have to admit it got slightlyboring at some points, and they did manage to hit a lot of clichés,because some stuff was predictable, but in the end Rogue was awesome.It was so entertaining and the crocodile is very realistic and creepy.Overall, great movie, probably the best of the Dimension Extreme's thatI've seen so far.
January 18th, 2009
Nothing wrong with yet another killer crocodile movie. especially onethat keeps the beast hidden until the second half. A group of touristson an Australian river is stranded on a tiny spit of sand after a crocattacks their boat. Trying to get from the spit of sand to theriverbank becomes the group's major challenge as the monster croc picksthem off one by one, and their spit of sane begins to go underwater.Radha Mitchell is the tour boat captain and French-born actor MichaelVartan (who bears an uncanny resemblance to Luke Perry here) plays anAmerican journalist. When we finally see the croc, it is huge andfearsome indeed. Vartan ends up in its lair and must face it down.Great CGI and physical special effects. Most of the movie was shot onsets and a back lot, but you'd never know it. A must-see for killercroc fans.