jsmiemans-15452 Review of Rogue Warfare

Rogue Warfare (2019)

Boring, by the numbers, doesn't add anything to the genre

[4/10 · 6 October 2019]

Rogue Warrior is a low budget, low-effort action movie about an elite group of special forces operatives from different countries, who have to work together to stop a terrorist organisation. At first they don't get along, but in time they learn to trust each other and co-operate, yada-yada-yada. It has all the typical ingredients of a B-movie; terrible looking sets, clunky dialogue, a bad guy costume that looks like a mix between Kylo Ren and a Muslim woman's hijab... I could go on. I would've been glad to overlook those things if the action scenes were decent (that's the only standard I really hold this type of movie to), but unfortunately that's where I found the movie to be most disappointing. Apparently, in his "day job", director Mike Gunther is quite an accomplished Hollywood stunt coordinator, but that really doesn't show through in this movie. The action scenes look cheap and amateurish, and there's really not a lot of stunts, apart from the arbitrary "terrorist gets shot and falls down". It all adds up to a bland, mediocre package which had me struggling to keep my eyes open, especially during one of its long expository dialogue scenes (of which there are too many). Usually I'd recommend this type of movie for a lazy Sunday afternoon, but there's just nothing interesting here and there are too many better movies, even in the low-budget genre. Give it a pass.