DigitalRevenantX7 Southern Spain in 2018. Dante, an American who has been held in detention since he infiltrated a group of illegal immigrants as part of a game, makes an escape from a prison van & heads across the Spanish countryside in order to find his girlfriend who was with him when he was arrested. Standing in his path for freedom is a rottweiler guard dog that has been augmented with cyborg parts. As Dante meets various people in his way, the dog ruthlessly kills those people, trying to track down & kill Dante.Brian Yuzna gained valuable horror street cred in 1985 when he produced Stuart Gordon's classic zombie flick RE-ANIMATOR. Since then, Yuzna has maintained a career making horror films, including two Re-Animator sequels. Rottweiler, a science fiction film based on a Spanish political thriller (& indeed written by that book's author), is probably the strangest film to have come out of Yuzna's recent career – although it might not exactly match the intense weirdness of Yuzna's oddball comedy Society.As far as Terminator templaters go, Rottweiler is the strangest one around – mainly due to having the killer cyborg being of the canine variety. That said, the film is extremely thinly-plotted, so much so that you can't get much genre interest out of it. The visual effects are really patchy – the cyborg dog is played by everything from a real dog to an animatronic dog puppet to a stuffed dog to CGI & so on. Most of these effects don't always look convincing but that is not really the issue here.In the original novel, the dog was an allegory of abuse inflicted by a totalitarian regime but here the motivation for the dog's attacks is almost nonexistent. All we get is the dog's owner – a businessman (played with cheerful cruelty by Paul Naschy) who seems like the Spanish version of Scott Morrison (for those who don't know, Morrison was the Australian Liberal government's border protection minister, a hard-headed & secretive man whose tough policies have resulted in a ruthless crackdown on illegal immigrants coming to the country), freely abusing the prisoners under his custody. On the acting front, the lead actor William Miller is terrible – he makes stupid mistakes all the time & is not believable as the escaped prisoner. Naschy is a relative show-stealer as the villainous businessman who detained Miller & the dog's gory attacks are probably worth a once-over afternoon viewing for jaded Terminator fans.

lastliberal 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.

reeves2002 I had a free rental and wanted to see this one.I don't understand why everyone hated it.It was not unwatchable like some people said it was.I didn't love it,but I didn't mind it either.I was confused by the plot at times since it starts off with prisoner's trying to escape and you don't know what they did.And the cop or guard(or whoever he was) holding them was acting as demented as the dog so it was hard to tell who the criminals were.The story with the prison dog should have been explained better from the start.When I read the description on the back of the DVD cover I was expecting a different kind of movie,so it was a little misleading.I thought it was gonna be about a vicious mechanical dog who was trained(somehow)to assist the cops and go after and retrieve violent criminals while on the run from the law or something.Instead a dog was beaten to death,and then re-built mechanically to exact revenge. a prisoner escapes and then you see flashbacks that are hard to piece together. It seemed like everyone was playing some kind of game with each other.The story could have been better but unlike most people I liked the special effects. There was a lot of gore and a bit of male nudity for a change done tastefully.I got a kick out of the mechanical dog.It seemed nothing could stop it or kill it.It was just bent on destroying Dante and everyone else in it's path.I thought William Miller who played Dante did a good job.I enjoyed his journey and all the people he encounters while on the run from that demented dog trying to reunite with his lover.I didn't expect the tragic ending after all he had to go through to get there.

AAChaoshand Horrendous isn't a strong enough word to describe this film. The movie is about a dog that got trashed as a young dog and got rebuilt with metal bones...yeah okay wolverine go get your own damn plot. Anyways, it continues on about some guy who is hunting for his girlfriend that got taken by some fat dude. This guy somehow manages to shoot this dog to death and it still comes back. I know this is supposed to be a horror movie but it is more along the lines of a comedy/horror. It's so funny its stupid. Craptastic acting, makeup, and the rendering of the dog as pure metal was almost decent. Don't waste your money with this garbage, go buy another film.