 | MOVIE DETAILS • Name: Rottweiler • Year: 2004 • Country: Spain, UK • Director: Brian Yuzna • Main cast: William Miller, Irene Montalà, Paulina Gálvez • Runtime: 95 minutes • Production company: Filmax, Future Films, Fantastic Factory (Filmax) • TRAILER |
Mr. Yuzna, really? The idea of a cyber-dog hunting fugitives is kind of lame, but we have seen worse things in this wonderful world of horror of ours, right?. But the story is really baaad bad bad. And also are the actors. And also is the directing, man! What happened with the Brian Yuzna that gave us The Bride of Re-Animator (1989), Necronomicon (1993) or those The Dentist (1996 and 1998) movies? They never were masterpieces of cinema, but they were well done entertaining movies, very enjoyable to watch. I still remember when for a while I stated that Yuzna’s Return of the Living Dead III (1993) was my favorite movie ever. Well, I was young and illiterate, but Brian Yuzna rocked!
Rottweiler is one of the products from Fantastic Factory, the company resulted of the forces joined by director Brian Yuzna himself and the spanish producers and distributors Filmax. All the movies Fantastic Factory gave us from 2000 to 2005, filmed in Barcelona and surroundings, had horror and nightmarish plots. Maybe you remember some of those titles, like Faust: Love of the Damned (2000) or Beneath Still Waters (2005), both of them also from Yuzna, Stuart Gordon’s Dagon (2001), Arachnid (2001) or Romasanta (2004), just to name a few.
But I think with Rottweiler they reached the bottom of poor creativity. The plot is not original at all, a guy searching for his girlfriend in a decadent futuristic Spain, while he is been chased by a bloodthirsty cybernetic rottweiler, like Terminator made canine. But what doesn’t sound so much interesting as a start turns into a boring very bad filmed movie that at some moments you can’t even believe what you are watching. The main actor is awful. Plain and simple like that, just awful. The rest of the acting is also very bad, but not as bad as the main star. The only one who can still hold some dignity is 10 years old Ivana Baquero (yes, the little girl from Pans Labyrinth (2006)) who just started working in movies that same year. The editing and directing are outrageous, unfit for a director with such a wide experience and success.
There is really not much you can save from the movie, to be honest. And should I recommend to watch it? Well, I’m not sure about that. It’s not much entertaining and won’t bring you anything worth, but we fans of horror films have seen worse than this, I’m sure. So watch it if you want, but don’t expect much. In the list of huge deceptions from good directors, even Dario Argento’s Dracula 3D (2012) is better, if you know what I mean. So up to you, I already warned you.
RATE: 2/10
IMDB URL: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0371920
