Lack of good storyline.

Don't listen to the negative reviews

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

I read about this movie on some shady blog and came here to read reviews. I should've listened... but instead I spent 84 minutes watching this "movie." Not worth it. After the first 10 minutes I was already in deep shock and it was only worse later on. Story was coherent... up to certain point, because later it was confusing and simply terrible. Is it truthful? No. Is it believable? Absolutely not. Are the actors believable? Never. Is it distasteful? Yes. Does the movie have a message in it? Well... it has potential to have a message and to teach us something, but either you're showing the "true" face of BDSM, or you're fighting human trafficking. Don't do both in the same movie. If they really spent a million dollars on this movie, they need to go back to elementary school.

I was more than impressed by this very different exploration into human dynamics. I am more than impressed by the resounding polarization of people who have taken the time to review this movie.I hesitated to write about The Pet because I am not a reviewer of any stretch of the imagination but I found the galvanizing affect of those from I guess the Bondage/Discipline community seem really having a problem in a film that some perceive as depicting a "lifestyle". Well for one who does not care for fetishism or such - get over it - the Pet is a well made movie; maybe not by the American standards of spoon fed potpourri of car chases, CSI investigations or the horror/slash genres. I really do not think it dealt with the BDSM thing at all.To me it was well crafted and layered - showing character's strength and weaknesses as well as the evil and good in our so often manufactured lives controlled by powers that we do not know even exists.I thought the acting was thoughtful, deliberate and engaging. Not growing up in America may have given me a different perspective but I really did get the vintage thoughtfulness of Bergman and Kubrick (Wild Strawberries and Clockwork Orange respectively).I decided to write after watching The Pet an additional viewing. This time I watched it with several friends and indeed we talked about it for quite some time.

Breathtakingly, stunningly bad. Production values seem to be even lower than the average adult movie.Total acting skills displayed by all participants: close to zero. Poor shooting, directing, editing, script, DVD transfer, etc. If anybody connected with this movie was paid more than bus fares and lunch money, they were overpaid.Some movies are bad, but entertaining because they are bad. Not so with this turkey.The only reason I gave it one star is because there isn't a zero-star voting option.

This movie could've been so much more. As a member of the BDSM community, I have seen first hand the loving relationships between Masters and their pets.This movie could have informed the audience about these relationships, about the growth of both people involved, their character development, and there could have even been subplots of action or care or intrigue without involving a contrived, convoluted, and ultimately damaging subplot involving human trafficking, a horrific and reprehensible practice that has nothing to do with 99.9% of the BDSM community.It was obvious that the film makers have some knowledge of the dynamics of a Master/human pet relationship. But they wrapped it up in bad acting, bad dialogue, and bad story telling.