Rottweiler (2004)

Just watched this and it was pretty enjoyable. Great beginning, and moves into daylight with some beautiful panoramic shots of the landscape. I enjoyed the directing and camera work a lot. Some pretty sweet special effects as well. Also I found the characters to be more interesting then I had feared.A Story of a man, Dante and his girlfriend are born in the lap of luxury, playing real life role playing game called Infilitration. A dangerous game of chance which goes terribly wrong when they are caught by Immigration who imprison him, and rape his girlfriend. Now after a escape in the highlands, Dante must travel endless miles through dangerous Mexico with a enhanced attack dog on his trail, to return to his true love.Good story, acting, dialog, nice use of flashbacks, music, and directing. Definitely better then I had anticipated. It made me a bit more hopeful for the Director, after all I felt Darkness was terrible.

Rottweiler (2004) * (out of 4) THE TERMINATOR, CUJO and a few political thrillers are all thrown together by cult director Yuzna and the end result is pretty bad. Set in Spain in 2018, an American prisoner escapes from prison only to be chased by a sadistic rottweiler who he eventually kills. What he doesn't know is that the dog is a cyborg and keeps coming back to life and will kill whoever gets in its way. Yeah, that's right now. I find it pretty funny that this flick was released in Japan as TERMINATOR 2018 but no matter the title this thing here is a real stinker. It's sad but I knew this film was dead on arrival during the opening prison escape as the special effects were so poorly done that you knew things weren't going to get any better. What shocked me was how much useless plot was in this thing because we've got countless genres going against one another and for the life of me I can't figure out what the director was trying to do. There's certainly a political side to this film and none of it ever makes sense. The American, Dante, is trying to get back to his girlfriend after the two accidentally entered Spain where he would eventually be held captive while she gets sexually assaulted by a madman (Paul Naschy). The political nature of the prison camp and everything else is just pointless and adds absolutely nothing to the film. Even if this political stuff works only fifty-percent that wouldn't be good enough because the horror side of this is also quite poor. The dog is never scary because you can tell when a puppet is being used and his steel teeth just aren't frightening. The entire chase of the dog and the American contains no energy, no flow and is simply boring all together. I'm really not sure why the dog wouldn't just go after his main target or why he needed to kill everyone else around him but at least the film didn't add another subplot trying to give the dog some sort of personality. The idea of a cyborg dog is pretty stupid but this film makes it a lot worse than it should be. Even the performances are all rather forgettable with the exception of horror legend Naschy who gets a decent sized role here.

It was a flick on the Sci-Fi channel. The description, and I'm paraphrasing here, was, "A cybernetic dog tears down anything in its path as it chases down a fugitive." It sounded interesting enough. I liked the prospect of a sci-fi movie with psychological horror; surely the paranoia of being hunted by a killer robot-__anything__ would make for an interesting show....Heheh... Yeah... Interesting...Rottweiler takes place in Spain, in the near-future... The "fugitive" in question is a young American man named Dante. He escapes prison, and struggles not to just get out of Spain, but also to find his girl. And, at the very heart of the movie, that's what it's all about; a man and his struggle to be reunited with his lover. Yes, I know that sounds strange when everything except perhaps the last half hour of the movie, more or less, is all about dismemberment by rottweiler, but seriously. The rottweiler is just a plot device.There's a very, very large cast, but the real star of it is Dante. Who, like everyone else in the movie, isn't a very deep character. No one in the movie is worth caring about, except for maybe that child and a few other featured animals, since human nature is to be protective of anything adorable. Down to it, all the characters are worth a sentence, and nothing more; Dante is crazy and he's in love. The dog's a mindless man-eating robot. Dante's girl is loved by Dante. The little girl is adorable. The bad guy is bad. That strange woman is probably into BDSM.All of these characters... They're that shallow. Compelling, aren't they? Overall, the actors are actually quite passable, performances even worthy of praise sometimes, except for the part where the little girl cries. (She sucks at that.) The bad guy? (Oh, you'll learn about him later.) Totally came across as heartless. That strange woman as she was being attacked by the dog? Her face was almost priceless. And Dante's girl is good when it comes to using her voice. But, by no means are any of these people's performances moving; but you can blame the writers for that. All of the actors' potential? Wasted. Just utterly wasted, on a movie that seems like it was written by teenagers.So why did I continue watching this? I know I could've changed the channel, but it got me hooked; I wanted to see what would ultimately happen to the dog and Dante. That sort of sentiment could only apply to me, though; I'm the kind of person that'd walk through hell and back just to get a question answered. ...I guess you could call it obsession. "Obsession"? Yes. "Paranoia"? No. Just... no. After all, that's just rude.The general atmosphere of the movie was mediocre, at best. There was never suspense, but at the same time, the movie isn't painfully predictable at all. The bloody gore? I don't care much about gore, but if you're that kind of person, this movie will definitely satisfy your quench for blood and guts. But for some people, that excessive gore will just turn them off. If you're that kind of person, don't even bother starting the movie.The soundtrack was nice to listen to at first, but tracks were overused, and nothing really could stay in your mind. There's nothing interesting about the camera angles, though I did appreciate the slow frame rate of certain scenes with the rottweiler as the focus. Though as the movie neared its end, the atmosphere of the movie hit all-time lows; everything reeked of immaturity. It was as if a child wrote and directed this... I was compelled to turn off the TV—and compelling me to do something like that is very difficult to do, considering the sort of person I am—but I persisted.I regret doing that. Err, you know, persisting. The ending was a total rip-off of another movie < coughs >, and the __very__, very end was just plain cheesy. It accomplished getting out the message what the directors probably wanted out. (Yes, it's about love.) But the execution was just terrible.All in all, I'd say don't watch this movie. EVER. Unless you're in it for the dog and the gore.

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.