Rogue is a vicious attack on your senses. The film, which to start with takes off on a barely average note, continuously further plummets thereafter. Yes, we are very much aware that Puri barely represents his leading men as a chivalrous, well-bred sort. He likes them as Idiots, Pokiris, Desamudurus and Loafers better. And while that has almost always worked for him, it is because they had with them the backing of strong scripts.
With Rogue, however, he completely abandons everything taught in Filmmaking 101 and totally relies on the variety of degrees of psychosis that he write....