The alert is this: if you watch this film, it will definitely spoil your evening. No back-story, no character development, and you would have to search far and wide for filmmakers who know less about dogs.
Beautiful scenery, though! What was Bridges thinking when he took this role? Seriously. My girlfriend and I laughed our way through this disjointed and utterly unrealistic "dog flick." I don't even know where to start. He jumps through a glass door and then they build a four-foot high pen that's supposed to keep him in? Who is Jon Katz? Who is the wife, who is the daughter, who is the dog trainer, who is ANYBODY in this film? The dog learns to "sit" on the first try without any reinforcement or guidance? Really? I'm embarrassed to say that I sat for the whole thing: my girlfriend and I repeatedly agreed to quit watching and do something more rewarding, like watching paint dry, but it was so fascinatingly bad that we couldn't tear ourselves away. On a sadder note: it's an hour or so of our lives that we will never get back. Tragic.
Beautiful scenery, though! What was Bridges thinking when he took this role? Seriously. My girlfriend and I laughed our way through this disjointed and utterly unrealistic "dog flick." I don't even know where to start. He jumps through a glass door and then they build a four-foot high pen that's supposed to keep him in? Who is Jon Katz? Who is the wife, who is the daughter, who is the dog trainer, who is ANYBODY in this film? The dog learns to "sit" on the first try without any reinforcement or guidance? Really? I'm embarrassed to say that I sat for the whole thing: my girlfriend and I repeatedly agreed to quit watching and do something more rewarding, like watching paint dry, but it was so fascinatingly bad that we couldn't tear ourselves away. On a sadder note: it's an hour or so of our lives that we will never get back. Tragic.