BAD EDITING EXAMPLE:Īfter 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. 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. 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. This may sound like a minor gripe, but it's a symptom of a much larger problem. 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.
The filmmakers clearly don't know how to tell a story.
Instead of talking about the awful CGI lions at length, lets discuss a few things that are a little less obvious but equally appalling. Because there's so much more of them, which really allows the laziness of the CGI to sink in. They were bad in the trailer and they're worse in the movie. I won't even bother talking at length about the awful CGI lions.
When cornered in an abandoned complex, the team and their pursuers are slowly picked apart by feral lions. "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. To be fair to Miss Fox, I don't blame her.
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. 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.