Taglines: When the hunter becomes the prey.
Rogue Movie Storyline. Megan Fox (Transformers franchise) tackles a thrilling new role as a battle-hardened mercenary in this explosive action saga. As team leader O’Hara, she leads a lively squad of soldiers on a daring mission: rescue hostages from their captors in remote Africa. But as the mission goes awry and the team is stranded, O’Hara’s squad must face a bloody, brutal encounter with a gang of rebels – and the horde of ravenous, enraged lions they encounter.
Rogue is a 2020 American action thriller film directed by M. J. Bassett, who wrote the screenplay with her daughter, Isabella. The film stars Megan Fox as a mercenary whose team gets trapped in Africa and must fight to survive against both the local insurgents and a bloodthirsty lioness. The film was released on August 28, 2020.
Rogue was released in the United States digitally August 28, 2020, and then on Blu-ray and DVD September 1. The film’s trailer was released on July 20, 2020. Through its first two weeks of release in the United States, the film had totaled $878,284 in DVD and Blu-ray sales.
About the Story
Within the grasslands of East Africa, Samantha “Sam” O’Hara is leading an operation with a team of multinational mercenaries, which includes the loyal Elijah, the outgoing Joey and Bo, the confrontational Mike Barasa, and the Masaai and former jihadist Pata. They are dispatched on a rescue mission to retrieve Asilia Wilson, the teenage daughter of a governor, who was abducted for ransom purposes alongside her two schoolmates Chloe and Tessa by Zalaam, the leader of a terrorist cell affiliated with al-Shabaab.
Going against the original plan, Sam decides to free the other two girls as well. Nonetheless, the mission is successful, although the extraction helicopter gets shot down by an RPG. While pursued across the plains by Zalaam’s militia, a violent gunfight ensues atop the cliffs, in which several mercenaries are killed, forcing the survivors to escape by leaping into the river below, losing most of their equipment and their satphone. After regrouping on the shoreline, Chloe is killed by a crocodile, and Sam urges the group to press on, in order to reach a way to call their employers to arrange a new extraction.
While travelling, the team comes across an abandoned game farm that belonged to poachers who specialized in trafficking wild animals for the exotic pet trade and their body parts for traditional medicine. At nightfall, the group find themselves stalked through the ranch by a lone lioness, who had slaughtered the previous occupants after escaping from her cage. Elijah is the first to be killed, while Bo is seriously injured.
Sam and Joey manage to find and power the farm’s generator and call for the extraction, but Barasa is also mauled to death by the lioness while helping them avoid her. The group is told to wait until dawn for a new helicopter. Pata warns them that Zalaam is not going to let Asilia escape that easily, because of the power that she represents over her father. Pata also admits her jihadist past, much to Tessa’s shock, and recounts how the terrorists murdered his family and children in retaliation after he left the militant group.
Rogue (2020)
Directed by: M. J. Bassett
Starring: Megan Fox, Philip Winchester, Greg Kriek, Brandon Auret, Jessica Sutton, Kenneth Fok, Isabelle Bassett, Adam Deacon, Sisanda Henna, Tamer Burjaq, Ashish Gangapersad
Screenplay by: M. J. Bassett, Isabel Bassett
Production Design by: Waldemar Coetsee
Cinematography by: Brendan Barnes
Film Editing by: Andrew MacRitchie, David Wigram
Costume Design by: Darion Hing
Music by: Jack Halama, Scott Shields
MPAA Rating: R for strong violence, bloody images and language throughout.
Distributed by: Lionsgate Films
Release Date: August 28, 2020
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