Rottweiler (2004)

Absolutely Fantastic

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

'Relatively speaking' means in comparison to all of the films he's directed. Yuzna is not a seminal horror film director but he does have a certain style and following, and is not merely a hack. For example, a few of his films can stand up with seminal horror directors such as Tobe Hooper, John Carpenter, and George Romero, and ROTTWEILER is one that can.It's not a straight-out, routinely linear-plotted opus, but rather asks the viewer to follow a storyline that jumps through past and present. There is a purpose for this, that mostly being to maintain an intrigue about how the events leading to the chase of the bionic rottweiler and the hunted man came to be, and how the rottweiler itself became a killing machine.There are also plot points that need the viewer to exercise some mental abilities to follow, and in doing so reward the viewer with a more inclusive experience rather than that of being a 'couch potato' merely as a recipient of programmed emotional effects. These are the folks who complained that they couldn't understand what was going on.As a point of example for this, it's shown in subtle ways that the bionic rottweiler tracks the hunted man by his scent and the scent of his blood. Anyone who gets this scent on them becomes a victim as well, or if they are between the dog and the man. Those who are not do not get attacked. But the viewers who are looking only for simple plot devices and completely explained maneuvers won't get these subtleties.This is Yuzna's most interesting horror film to date and the most enjoyable for me, and as I feel it is his best so far, I've called it his masterpiece. Plus it does have the gore that we've come to expect from him.

I just watched Cujo the other day and found it to be an interesting story. Well, this isn't Cujo, as the rottweiler in this film just doesn't seem to want to die and does a mean job on anyone it comes in contact with, including Paulina Gálvez, who I saw recently in Face of Terror, which she had made the year before. She was almost as ravenous as the rottweiler when she captured Dante after he was running through the woods completely naked. I mean if you like seeing a dude doing the full monty through the brush for what seemed like eternity, this is the film for you.But, we didn't see much more of Paulina as she gave it up for the cause, as did many more before the movie ended. No zombie movie I have seen has had as much carnage as this dog perpetrated on its victims.Of course, at the end you see why.This was one creepy looking and ferocious animal. If you like it raw, then this is the film. I rated it low because that is all there was. The acting was atrocious except for the few minutes that Paulina performed.

I understand that I must write at least 10 lines in order to get this comment added. But I'm a well brought up and gentle soul who is not used to profanity so I think it will be quite hard for me to write 10 lines that describe this awful piece of rubbish. I suppose I could just say things like "don't waste your time and/or money watching this drivel" and such like, but it doesn't really convey any detail about the film, but others have done that, so thankfully I don't have to.I sometimes wonder what the actors and director/producer are thinking when they make this sort of rubbish. Do they actually think it's going to make money for them, help their career or be acclaimed as a brilliant piece of film making? Or do they realise it's garbage but are resigned to finish it otherwise they won't get paid? The only highlight of the film for me were the attempts by the TV censor to cover up the guys dangly bits while he was running naked through the grass.And couldn't they have found a leading actor who didn't have silly looking sticky-out front teeth?

This movie is another proof that we, Europeans, can't find a middle way in cinematography: masterpieces are mixed together with big chunks of pure crap. Like "Rottweiler". An interesting story is massacred by stupid acting, idiotic storyboard and more idiotic lines. The main character has serious mental problems: he see and talk to his fellow dead former inmate and to his (former?) girlfriend. The little girl is, on the other hand, annoying and obviously, has nothing in common with acting. The three easterners in the cave (smugglers, bandits ?)just laugh like retarded morons every two sentences. And finally, the camp boss had the most idiotic lines you can heard in the entire world cinema history.Almost 30 years ago, another Spanish director made a little gem, a movie almost similar to this one (minus the sci-fi flavor): "El Perro". Go watch it, if you have the occasion. And then compare it with this awful movie. And you'll find that tens of years later and a new century doesn't mean necessarily what we call "progress". At least in the seventh art.Just two stars, one for the slaughtered story (RIP), another one for the music and the sound effects, who saves this film from being a totally submerged wreck. And one thumb down.