Black Dog

Black Dog is a great film that has a good cast which includes Patrick Swayze, Meat Loaf, Randy Travis, Gabriel Casseus, Brian Vincent, Graham Beckel, Brenda Strong, Charles S. Dutton, and Stephen Tobolowsky! The acting by all of these actors is very good. Swayze is really excellent in this film. I thought that he performed good. Meat Loaf, Travis, Beckel, Dutton, and Tobolowsky were all very good! The thrills is really good and some of it is surprising. The movie is filmed very good. The music is good. The film is quite interesting and the movie really keeps you going until the end. This is a very good and thrilling film. If you like Patrick Swayze, Meat Loaf, Randy Travis, Graham Beckel, Brenda Strong, Charles S. Dutton, Stephen Tobolowsky, the rest of the cast in the film, Action, Thrillers, and interesting films then I strongly recommend you to see this film today!

This, although not entirely intended to be that funny, is one of the most humorous films I've ever seen. Wes's constant pleading to visit the jon, Red's quoting of Bible verses, and Earl's horrible singing all intertwine into a story originally intended to be very serious. However, the great acting of Randy Travis and Meat Loaf give the viewer a pleasant and hilarious surprise. The car chase scene is wonderfully made as is a crafty semi truck rampage up a steep hill and along jagged cliffs. A unique blend of good and bad acting along with good scenes and bad scenes make Black Dog one of the best "bad" movies you'll ever see.

This resembles a made-for-tv movie, though one with a slightly higher budget than usual. Not very interesting; though there's a lot of smash-n-burn, it somehow comes across as very unexciting. Swayze needs an agent who can find better scripts.

An action movie featuring Patrick Swayze, Randy Travis and Meat Loaf? Holy flippin' catfish, it's like the holy trinity of cinematic casting brilliance! Okay, calm down, it's not The Wild Bunch or anything, but seeing these three names above the marquee certainly must have incited riots amongst the general 1998 movie-going public! This movie completely ignores the opportunity to have all three sing a theme song together, it would have topped that Sting/Rod Stewart/Bryan Adams sing-a-long from the 1993 version of The Three Musketeers, no question. Alas, it was not to be... Black Dog is an okay action movie, a sort of Road House Hits the Road. Lots of fairly original scenes of trucks and cars crashing, racing and other general vehicular mayhem. If you're some kinda movie elitist, then you will probably never watch this anyway. It's mission is to entertain and then be forgotten about a day later, and it does all that.

Patrick Swayze shines in one of the best films in the truck-driving genre. The main character Jack Crews (Swayze) plays an ex-con/truck driver/plaid shirt enthusiast who gets more than he bargained for! Literally. In effort to make some much-needed money for his poor family, Crews bargains with a small arms dealer, played by Meat Loaf. Crews agrees to deliver the shipment for Meat Loaf in exchange for some cool cash. As you may have figured out by looking at the movie cover, Crews encounters hordes of inept henchmen along the way. Fortunately for Jack Crews, their vehicles explode easily. Still, Crews n' Company face many action-packed twist and turns on their journey. Swayze gives a spectacular performance; deserving of the either an academy award or employee of the month. I would recommend this film to anyone with eyes.

When this movie came out, the usual pooh-poohers whined and complained about how it had a dumb script, a paper-thin plot, and cardboard characters. I wanted to smack them all upside the head for stating the obvious. Duh! That's the whole point! Patrick Swayze has made some very good dramas (Ghost, City of Joy), and some very cheesy ones (To Wong Foo) and he knows the difference. Anyone who tries to take this movie seriously is missing the point. This one is a terrific guilty pleasure, with over-the-top performances by Swayze and his musician co-stars (Meat Loaf, Randy Travis), and some spectacular chase scenes complete with some truly cheesy touches (every automobile that crashes explodes, regardless of whether the gas tank is actually damaged or not). Trust me, this one's worth checking out, as long as you check your brain at the door.

An ex-con (Patrick Swayze) takes a job driving a truck cross country. What he does not know is that the truck is filled with illegal weapons and now he must fight to survive and save his family. This film is given low ratings, and I suspect the reason is that people wanted it to be more than it is. This is the story of a man who has one chance to make a big score, and he is followed by trouble -- explosions and car crashes ensue. If you wanted more than a nice popcorn-munching film, you put the wrong DVD in, my friend. I enjoyed this one. I did have a question or two about the plot that I think was never fully answered, but then I had to refer myself to the previous paragraph: I was expecting too much and should just relax. After that change of perspective, it is a joy.