Black Dog
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Movie Reviews of Black Dog
Movie Review: Beyond silly
Summary: 2 Stars
I watch (and love) zombie movies, so my ability to suspend disbelief or to enjoy mindless mayhem is extremely high. I don't even mind Mr Swayze in the right film. Red Dawn or Point Break? Watch them anytime. Road House or Next of Kin? Well, maybe not all the way through, but I can always make it to the next commercial break if I'm channel surfing and I see one of them. But this is so absurd, with such endless data dumps where Mr Swayze has to explain to the other characters his own back story or the inner workings of truck brakes (yawn on both counts), and with villains who are beyond comic relief to being just Darwin award winners, that it's impossible to sit through.Movie Review: A guilty pleasure, but certainly not a quality film...
Summary: 2 Stars
Any movie with Meatloaf, Randy Travis and Patrick Swayze in it is definately worth watching, at least for the laughs. In that respect, BLACK DOG certainly doesn't disappoint. The acting in this movie is terrible, especially Swayze's neverending wooden facial expressions. The plot is equally bad, and is never very engaging. However, the one thing that saves this B-movie from being so bad it's unwatchable are the scences with Meatloaf quoting Bible verses while trying to kill Patrick Swayze and the hilarious bits about the black dog. So, don't expect a quality piece of cinema, but if you're bored and need a laugh, it's worthwhile.Movie Review: No brains and no fun
Summary: 2 Stars
Patrick Swayze is Jack Crews, a good man and ace trucker who lost his license and did some time over a manslaughter beef; now he just tries to make ends meet and keep a roof over the heads of his wife and daughter. He agrees to run some guns to make the mortgage payment and from that point on he's in trouble up to his neck. Obviously, this is a stupid movie, but that needn't preclude it from being fun. Unfortunately, it's just boring for anyone who isn't a member of the monster-truck crowd. For high-octane highway mayhem, rent "The Road Warrior" instead.Movie Review: Waste of Talent, Waste of Two Hours
Summary: 1 Stars
First off, we're given a character that we can't really like: a man who lost his CDL and just got out of prison because he got into an accident that killed someone. Accident or not, someone died through his carelessness and/or incompetence. So what do the filmmakers do? Put him back behind the wheel. Strike one.
Swayze, in addition to driving illegally, is smuggling. Despite his supposed remorse for his prior offense, he has no problem taking a job that any moron can see is a shady deal. Big strike two.
One of the most ludicrous scenes is when his wife and daughter are kidnapped. The mom runs through the house screaming her daughter's name. The daughter turns around from the bathroom mirror with a blank-faced "Huh?" (uh...she totally missed her mom's panic-stricken screeching?). Then, as a reward for all this misadventure, the FBI cheerfully gives Swayze, the killer-behind-the-wheel, his license to drive again. Strike three, and bye-bye. I have no sympathy for this guy and his whiney family at all.
The director should have let Randy Travis sing for two hours; at least that would have given this film some entertainment quality. If you want to watch a halfway decent trucker movie, rent "Smokey and the Bandit."
Movie Review: Botched Video
Summary: 1 Stars
I was very dissappointed in the technical quality of this video. Having already seen this film, I was very disturbed to find the first 20-30 minutes of the movie deleted. There were scenes that did not appear in the movie. For instance, there is a scene that takes place between Swayze and his wife that discusses his taking the job. This scene was deleted. I'd like an explanation for this. This purchase was made as a X-mas gift. Fortunately, the person who saw it was totally clueless about the deletions, but I was not. This will definitely cause me to question the quality of Amazon videos in the future.
Regretfully,
Avis Gray