‘Rogue Agent’ is Buried in Red Herrings
The film is moderately entertaining taken purely as a low-stakes thriller, but the story just doesn’t hold up.
The film is moderately entertaining taken purely as a low-stakes thriller, but the story just doesn’t hold up.
The film treats their adventures as little more than youthful mistakes, none of it really mattering in the long run.
Without giving too much away, the film doesn’t really give the characters enough time to really consider what it is that they’ve done.
Beyond the story of people falling victim to a parasite that turns them violent, the film draws parallels from the way parents can hide the truth from their children and the way the government might hide the truth from its citizens.
It’s deliberate and weighty, every shot adding to the overall feeling of sadness that will come to permeate this film.
The film is about finding success and having everything one should want, and still thinking about that one time when things could have gone differently.
The film enhances the story with plenty of interesting detail, but the main plot itself is kind of a dead end.
The film largely carries on with bursts of weirdness that don’t really feel dangerous.
This is kind of irresponsible behavior on the part of heroes that tends to be a result of a plot heavily reliant on unnatural contrivance.
It just feels like the movie is starting over, pretty much squandering everything that came before.