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I really didn't like it. It's a total cliché and Megan Fox doesn't convince anyone playing a tough ex military. The special effects are really bad, it lose proportionality between the computer animals and the actors. By the way, the overall acting is really bad.

Well.. 3 stars only for the message this movie gave... stop hunting animals lions, tigers, elephants etc and save their habitat.

Movie sucks otherwise..

I found it boring and script is just bad. What a waste of my time. B-rated movie that tried too hard to be something and it failed at everything. The best actor out of them all was the badly CGI'd lion...

The title pretty much says it all. She is just there for eye candy and never seems to get dirty in any scene. Poor acting throughout. CGI of lions was low budget yet they are the stars of the movie. It tries to be non stop action, but the shaky camera and annoying shootouts are poorly done. And lets have a 200'+ cliff drop into a 20' rolling river like no problem.

In Dr.Evil's voice

"Yeah right".

I deserve a medal for keeping a straight face through out the movie.

The opening scene of "Rogue" sets the stage for this poorly crafted thriller perfectly: a bunch of bored-looking mercenaries are just doing their job rescuing a walking payday from sex traffickers. The main protagonist of the team is the always expressionless Megan Fox, who seems to be doing exactly what her character is doing--cashing a paycheck.

To be fair to Miss Fox, I don't blame her. I blame the casting director.

OBLIGATORY PLOT RECAP: "Roar" follows a team of mercenaries lead by "Boss" Megan Fox as they rescue some of the most annoying young women from human trafficking somewhere in Africa. When cornered in an abandoned complex, the team and their pursuers are slowly picked apart by feral lions.

I won't even bother talking at length about the awful CGI lions. They were bad in the trailer and they're worse in the movie. "Why?" you may ask. Because there's so much more of them, which really allows the laziness of the CGI to sink in.

Instead of talking about the awful CGI lions at length, lets discuss a few things that are a little less obvious but equally appalling.

BAD EDITING: The filmmakers clearly don't know how to tell a story. The first car chase/gun battle sequence has so many wasted shots that do nothing to propel the story forward, and this is a problem the movie suffers from throughout. This may sound like a minor gripe, but it's a symptom of a much larger problem.

Things like shot choices, camera angles, character beats, and jokes, are thrown around because they're cool or to fill time or to give the illusion of development, but in actuality this is story-telling at its most shallow. You can tell there's effort to craft interesting characters here, and, to be fair, some of it works, but it's all padded by so much lifelessness, gunfire, and bad editing that the entire movie drowns amidst the wasted potential.

BAD EDITING EXAMPLE: After a ridiculously prolonged escape sequence rife with terrible editing, one of the heroes remarks that they need to keep going because they haven't gotten far enough away from their pursuers. The choice of camera angle here is key because we the viewers can clearly see in the background that our characters have, in fact, come a very long way and are in no immediate danger. It equals a wasted line of dialogue, a wasted shot, and more wasted time.

Oh, and then an alligator pops up because... something needed to happen? I'm not sure.

You can always tell when someone's about to die in "Roar" because the camera angels are so cliche. The back-and-fourth cutting during numerous gunfights is so ham-fisted and lacking in creativity that you'll be surprised how you can fall asleep amidst so much gunfire.

BAD CHOREOGRAPHY: If the characters aren't running and shooting guns, then they're driving cars and shooting guns, or getting shot by guns, or getting eaten by lions, or shooting lions, or getting eaten while shooting lions. No matter what they're doing while they're shooting their guns, they do it in the most boring way possible. A knife fight at the end of the movie has a few seconds of interesting choreography, but apart from that the lack of creativity and the almost endless gunfire makes the movie feel b-grade, like they couldn't afford anything but blank rounds.

BAD DIALOGUE: When the characters are in "mercenary mode" they like to use dialogue lifted from every single detective show on TV. Words like "asset" and "boss" are used as though the writers did no research into the actual lifestyle of such characters beyond watching reruns of "Criminal Minds." The rest of the dialogue exists to spoon-feed the audience exposition in the most boring and predictable ways possible.

BAD DIALOGUE EXAMPLE: When the baddies manage to pin down the heroes in a building, Megan Fox quickly sets some explosives on one side of the room to create an escape hole in the building. It's obvious to the viewer what she's doing, but a side character idiotically screams in fright, "You're going to blow up the building?!" to which Fox replies with all the boredom she can muster, "No, just the wall." Such dialogue is redundant and pointless. How much more badass would it have been for Fox's character to reply with an ACTION, like pressing the detonate button and letting the explosion just be her answer? It's amateurish dialogue and doesn't fit a character who is supposed to be this battle-hardened warrior.

And now that I think about it, it's the kind of dialogue that never ends. Everyone in this movie talks almost non-stop so you're never at a loss of what they're thinking, feeling, or planning to do. It sounds stupid. It makes the characters look stupid. It makes you the viewer feel stupid.

And it makes for one boring movie.

"Show don't tell" is one of the oldest rules in the writer's handbook, a rule the makers of "Rogue" clearly know nothing about. Or maybe they just forgot. Or maybe they took that rule and burned it in an effigy of good filmmaking.

This was awful and really dissapointing. Megan Fox being hot did not even help this movie. Not sure why anyone would make a movie about the most useless mercenaries on a hunt for people in africa... There are som people eaten by lions and thats is fun, but it does not make up for boring story, poor performance, shaky camera etc. Stay away from this. If you manage to watch the whole thing you should get a diploma

One of the worst action movies I've ever seen. poor acting, low budget CGI, boring action acts, bad script and using Arabic and Spanish language with African gang makes no sense .. however it made me laugh :)

I didn't think my day would include writing a review regarding this flick. After reading all the negative reviews and comments about it, I figured I'd watch it to see how bad it really was. Well, I must say it wasn't the best movie I've ever watched and nothing I haven't seen before but to say it was a total waste of time, I'd go with no it wasn't. Does it have it's flaws? Absolutely, there are quite a few but it wasn't near as bad as some make it out to be. In the case of the CGI, brutal. Very bad and the story was all over the place. The so called "comedy" fell flat but I thought the action decent and she reloaded. That should be worth a star right there. I've seen worse.

Overall I'd say if you get a chance, watch it for yourself but don't spend your hard earned money on it. I thought it was a decent time waster and would watch it again. I really can't believe I'm actually defending this movie but a 3.8? It's better than that, hell, the Doorman is rated higher and that sucks way more than his one. Just say'n.

Ignore all the reviews that mentions Megan Fox's acting. It seems like they can't get over the fact that she is in the lead role playing a mercenary. She did fine for what the role requires. Usually the hotter an actor is, the more they have to prove their acting ability for some of these people.

This movie had a great action opening sequence and for a low budget B-Movie, was still was able to give you some feature level surprises. I was entertained throughout, this movie gets unfairly criticized as it actually had a good storyline with a good message about whats going on in South Africa. Too many Megan Fox haters in here.

It was suspenseful from beginning to end and you actually cared a bit for some of the characters. At least I did.

This is alright. It isnt the worst movie out there and I liked seeing Philip Winchester in this role again as I love the tv series Strike Back. So it was good to see jim again. Megan Fox is badass and it was good to see her in this role too.

The cgi wasn't the best but i enjoyed it. Some of the other actors were bad but thats fine. It was still an alright movie.

So if you like army movies then check it out.

I actually enjoyed it. If you weren't expecting trash before you watched this movie than you're dumber than the plot but as far as trash goes, it was actually not too bad !!! The first 20-25mins was a great start and quite engaging. I went in expecting the worst so with my low expectations I was pleasantly surprised how entertaining it was. Look.....its predictable but there were some really cool scenes and this movie has plenty of laugh out loud moments just maybe not for the reasons intended.

Give it a go, as long as you've seen the trailer and your expectations arent unrealistically high you might actually find the entertainment in this, I certainly did.

A timid woman leading a bunch of rogues? Most unlikely and it shows in this movie! If you can endure the first half an hour and beyond - which is mostly comprising talk and arguments, it settles down somewhat and becomes an action movie closer to the end. The timid leader seems to have some qualities after all, but this makes the movie completely false and unbelievable.

Do not pay for this movie, do not expect a big budget movie! Stream it for free and prepare to crap your pants forever! The CGI was botched big time, the acting was over the top terrible! Megan Fox should never act again, specially as some kind of soldier lady! She sucks at this role! How the hell are you that clean when you go through "hell" and all your friends are dead or badly injured? Piece of hot garbage movie!

"Rogue's" biggest shortcoming is it's indecision as to what its supposed to be.

Is it a "GI Jane" military style of film or perhaps a "The Ghost and the Darkness" deal, about man eating animals? The fact it's not clear about what it wants to be is a big part of the reason, it fails to gel into anything satisfying.

Its character development is weak for this reason too. You never get to know who the main characters are in any detail, as the move between genres leave's little room, for character development.

That's regrettable too, as the cast hand in solid performances. Certainly i have no criticism, on the acting front.

Really, this is what could have been two films, rolled uncomfortably into one. I'll add I'm also a little critical of the way it presents what are increasingly endangered animals, in a less than flattering or for that matter, accurate light.

It tries to smooth this over at the end with a conservationist message but I still don't think personally, this was a path that should have been taken to start with.

4/10 from me.

The stereotypes on Africa are getting tired. This movie is plain bad on every level. With all the streaming companies today, anyone thinks they can make a movie. Which explains why most of those streaming services original movies are terrible and have low ratings. A lot of these movies would not find distribution in the old Hollywood or would be shown only in second rate theaters in third world countries. Megan Fox's best days as an actress are behind her.

Cringey CGI. Boring story line. Plot holes everywhere. Fox is incredibly unconvincing as a mercenary. The Worst.

If only the film was more of a creature one n less focused on Fox. The film starts off well on a lion farm with some tension filled scenes but then all that drama, bad camaraderie n stuff ruined it. Now who sings backstreet boys when a rogue lioness n bunch of armed killers r lurking around? The plot - A team of mercenaries travel to the remote n dangerous part of Africa to rescue hostages from a brutal gang, unknown to both the parties that horde of lions jus escaped from a lion farm and one ferocious lioness has gone rogue. It sounded one helluva adventure but they ruined it. Terrible dialogues n terrible screenplay.

Rogue is a 2020 American action film directed by M. J. Bassett, who wrote the screenplay with her daughter, Isabella. The film stars Megan Fox as a battle-hardened mercenary leading a team of soldiers on a daring mission to rescue hostages in remote Africa.

Being honest, I only decided to watch this movie because of Megan Fox. I've always loved her in movies like Jennifer's Body and although she's not known for her "Oscar-worthy" acting chops I thought she played the lead here rather well. She's a strong heroic presence, bringing a bit more emotional depth to her performance than I anticipated. The film itself however slowly crumbles under bad dialogue, bad direction, bad CGI and shrewd characterisation. Beyond all of the key things that make a movie great, the film is sporadically rather entertaining - it's got a few fun fight scenes and car chases here and there and I was never bored throughout the film but the films cookie-cutter plot and cardboard characters weren't enough to warrant a higher rating from me I'm afraid.

Rogue turned out to be a lot better than I expected. Megan Fox is no Scarlett Johansson or Kate Beckinsale, but she wasn't too bad in the action role. The script and characters were well-written, and, overall, the cast and action were excellent, although some of the visual effects could have been a bit more refined.

I appreciate the movie being about poaching, a subject I haven't seen yet in other feature films, and it does it without being overly preachy. All in all, I definitely recommend checking out Rogue.

The IMDB trolls are alive... but I found it entertaining. Megan Fox can not only run through the desert but does it like a professional with a gun. What were all the peons that wrote the silly reviews expecting? Jurassic Park CGI? Stuff blows up and it's gritty and real.

This has been by far one of the worst movies of 2020, and it all started from the crocodile, the whole movie was just pointless I could go on and on... Gaddamn!! I saw Megan Fox and thought this was going to be awesome but little did I know...!!