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Starts off well and then falls apart... SPOILERS

posted 14 years ago by ldealberti
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I really liked the way the film starting setting up the story quickly enough and getting through to the action without wasting time while still managing to introduce all the characters.

And it actually felt quite realistic, although the croc is bigger and badder than most, it seemed like the kind of situation that could happen

The first few attack scenes were great and got me really jumpy and was beginning to enjoy all the different characters.

But then off they all went and then it was only Radha Mitchell (who, frankly, SHOULD have died after this attack) and Michael Vartan. I wish all the characters stayed on until the end, with a few more deaths also. I'm not a psycho who enjoyed watching people get eaten alive, I just think it would have added more emotional depths...

[–] Neelis 14 years ago

I have to agree with you: it was odd (and a bit dissapointing) that Rhada Mitchell's character survived - I liked all the characters, they were all sympathetic in some way, which made their deaths that much harder to accept. Too bad the writer/director chose to have her live in the final scenes.

I missed the other characters as well after they escaped the island; but I suppose they went for high ground straight away (as I would have done myself) out of reach of the crocodile.

A flood's not the answer, people just float.

[–] Londinieres 14 years ago

Yes, Rhada Mitchell's character surviving was right daft.
Afterall, they managed to avoid some scenes I was expecting to see (Croc picking humans off the rope/Dog surviving at the end) but I'd be cashing in the life insurance when that Croc started the death-roll. She was a goner!

[–] TheCoops 14 years ago

I tend to agree. I liked the film, it exceeded my expectations.. I loved it up until after they manage to distract the croc and swim onto the other side of the creek.. Then, we never see the other characters again besides the quick flash of them at the end letting us know they made it out? That is a little foolish. It seems that "Rogue" had an underlying moral of sticking your neck out for others. Unity. Yet it ended with 'Pete' lone wolfing the crocodile and saving the woman in distress. The movie definitely took a nose dive into stupid cliches, starting when Pete willingly walked into a crocodile's lair to save a dog he didn't really care for, only to find the heroine magically alive.

~Lan~