The Worst Film Ever

Don't listen to the negative reviews

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Oh dear... I would have liked to have given this film more than 2/10 since I did like it: There was definitely something likeable and enjoyable about its atmosphere and a few of the characters. What ruined it for me was the script writing. In fact, there were some of the lamest, most cringe- inducing, cliche-ridden lines in this film that I've heard for many years. In general, the actors did well in pulling them off, but I was still left feeling very, very unsatisfied by this aspect. In parts, it reduced what should have been quite a good film to second-rate Disney. But despite that, the film is still emotionally engaging

I liked "Old Yeller", and I tend to like touching animal-based movies, but this one was filled with misleading and even "occult" types of promotions, sorry for that and WARNINGS in this regard to any Christians who really know the truth amd ,ight think this is appropriate for their children...

"Red Dog" is an interesting film based on a real story about a dog in the wilds of Western Australia. The film could have been considerably better and had a wider audience though. It's opening and early and frequent use of flashbacks made it hard to follow even for me. After about 10 minutes with grandkids 4, 7 and 12, we switched to another movie. It hadn't shown much promise yet, and I almost didn't go back to it on my own. I'm glad I did, because it wound up a very nice film.One thing that seemed odd to me was Red Dog finding John's grave after what appeared to be at least a couple of years – and maybe more, of searching for him. With such strong senses, dogs should be able to sniff out a loss like that quite quickly. And where was Red Dog during John's funeral and burial? Why wouldn't Nancy or Vanno or Peeto have taken the dog along with them? With the sadness there was much humor and fun around Red Dog. The dog star, Koko, was obviously well trained for the film. It's mostly a film for adults and older kids. While the youngsters would like the dog scenes, the jumping back and forth in time would probably lead most to lose interest – as it did my grandkids.

This is a movie with fictional characters but the story of a dog is based on popular folklore in the NW part of Australia, mostly the mining area on the coast near Dampier. Set in 1971 through 1979, it features the dog named "Red Dog" by the locals, that sort of shows up and becomes part of their lives. (It may be noted that just about everything is red there, because of the red soil and inevitable dust.)The first 15 to 20 minutes are a test of your viewing patience, for there isn't anything there particularly to draw the viewer interest, it just sets the time and location, a rather featureless area. But it does pick up after that and over all it is a superb, funny, and touching movie. Most of it is told in a series of flashbacks as Red Dog appears to be on his deathbed.The biggest name here is Josh Lucas who plays John , an American wanderer who never has spent longer than 2 years at one location in his adult life. He arrives to drive the bus, and Red Dog insinuates himself into John's life. Thus the comment, "sometimes you pick a dog, and sometimes he picks you." Red Dog picked him, even though all the other men would have liked Red Dog to be their best mate.One fateful day John gets a new passenger, very pretty Tasmanian native Rachael Taylor as Nancy , new in the area to work as a secretary. She and John hit it off right away and as it turns out she is the reason he stays there past his usual 2 years.Although this love story of John and Nancy is woven in, the movie always remains about Red Dog, his almost human-like qualities, and his positive influence on the community of workers from all parts of the world. I saw it via Netflix streaming movies, it is one of the better movies I have seen lately.A side note, John has a motorcycle and it is an authentic Honda Four cylinder 750K which was first produced in 1969 and with its innovations changed the world of consumer motorcycles. Seeing that in the movie brought back good memories, a co-worker of mine owned one of those original Honda Fours back in the early 1970s.SPOILERS: John proposes to Nancy, she accepts, but after he leaves her place one morning on his motorcycle he never shows up for work, and no one knows where he is. Friends go looking for him, spot a dead 'roo on the road, then find John had hit it, he lay dead in the ditch. Life goes on but after waiting 3 weeks for John to return, Red Dog spends years wandering all over NW Australia looking for him. Not finding him, as Red Dog gets older and is in a back room of the local bar where everyone congregates, Red Dog gets up and sneaks out. They eventually find him dead, at John's grave site. The movie ends a year later as one of the guys brings Nancy a puppy, it looks just like Red Dog. Plus the locals erect a bronze statue of Red Dog.