Rogue

The movie ‘Rogue’, written and directed by Greg Mclean, is set in the Australian Northern Territory (or ‘Terrortory’) and features an extremely large and vicious man-eating crocodile. It starts off with Pete McKell, an American travel journalist, who is set with an assignment in the Australian outback. He arrives at a small and run down café where he notices many newspaper articles on crocodile attacks in the area on a wall and decides to go on a river cruise.

Pete arrived along with many other tourists and holiday makers to go on the cruise through Kakadu National Park. After a seemingly uneventful cruise, a flare is noticed in the distance. Kate, the tour-guide, feels obligated to go and see what the problem is and leads the tour into unknown territory. What they find is an overturned boat when suddenly their boat is knocked over by a massive crocodile into a tiny island in the middle of a swamp. From then on, you can’t help but wonder who will be eaten first.

So with the boat not working, the radio out of range and the travelers and tour guide trapped, they are sent into hysterics. After a while, some people realise that the tide is rising rapidly and will most likely cover the island, dooming the stranded group. After a few have already been eaten and many attempts at getting to the bank, the Pete, Kate and fellow marooned company are swimming for their lives with a very possible outcome - death.

Overall, ‘Rogue’ will either send you into a phobia of the water or it will have you in hysterics at its predictable fakeness. I felt the latter, although it does keep you on the edge of your seat at parts. It features great characters with interesting personalities and has good filming. The main moral to the movie is to expect the unexpected and to never judge other people - or places in fact - before you get to know them. It ends with a slightly unsuitable song for the scary movie theme, yet quite funny, in the credits - ‘Never Smile at a Crocodile’.