This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

Please don't spend money on this.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Brian Yuzna's directorial career started off well with the innovative and freaky Society, followed by a serviceable sequel to Re-animator and the excellent Return of the Living Dead III; but since setting up his own production company, Fantastic Factory, in Spain, Yuzna's output has been surprisingly bad, with Rottweiler being the biggest dog of them all.Set in the near future, the film sees a risk-taking young couple, Dante and Ula (William Miller and Irene Montalà) caught by the authorities as they play a game called 'infiltration', which calls for them to try and illegally enter a country without papers. Dante is sent to a high security prison, but is soon presented with an opportunity to escape into the surrounding wilderness, where he finds himself relentlessly pursued by a savage, cyborg tracker dog.Admittedly, the above synopsis sounds like it could shape up to be a quality piece of sci-fi/horror entertainment—kinda like Westworld crossed with Cujo—but that is only half the story, and how the plot develops after Dante's prison break is simply insane.However, since the sheer unpredictability of the narrative is the one of the only enjoyable aspects of the film (the other main 'positive' being the gore), I'm not going to spoil things by revealing too much, suffice to say that you should prepare yourself for some unbelievably poorly executed action, including a silly chase sequence involving numerous shots of Dante's naked ass, the least harrowing rape scene in movie history, the hilarious sight of the dog disposing of a gun (twice), and a priceless shot of a surprised chicken that is easily the best moment in the whole damn mess (the bird certainly gives a more convincing performance than the rest of the cast).

Southern Spain in 2018. Dante, an American who has been held in detention since he infiltrated a group of illegal immigrants as part of a game, makes an escape from a prison van & heads across the Spanish countryside in order to find his girlfriend who was with him when he was arrested. Standing in his path for freedom is a rottweiler guard dog that has been augmented with cyborg parts. As Dante meets various people in his way, the dog ruthlessly kills those people, trying to track down & kill Dante.Brian Yuzna gained valuable horror street cred in 1985 when he produced Stuart Gordon's classic zombie flick RE-ANIMATOR. Since then, Yuzna has maintained a career making horror films, including two Re-Animator sequels. Rottweiler, a science fiction film based on a Spanish political thriller (& indeed written by that book's author), is probably the strangest film to have come out of Yuzna's recent career – although it might not exactly match the intense weirdness of Yuzna's oddball comedy Society.As far as Terminator templaters go, Rottweiler is the strangest one around – mainly due to having the killer cyborg being of the canine variety. That said, the film is extremely thinly-plotted, so much so that you can't get much genre interest out of it. The visual effects are really patchy – the cyborg dog is played by everything from a real dog to an animatronic dog puppet to a stuffed dog to CGI & so on. Most of these effects don't always look convincing but that is not really the issue here.In the original novel, the dog was an allegory of abuse inflicted by a totalitarian regime but here the motivation for the dog's attacks is almost nonexistent. All we get is the dog's owner – a businessman (played with cheerful cruelty by Paul Naschy) who seems like the Spanish version of Scott Morrison (for those who don't know, Morrison was the Australian Liberal government's border protection minister, a hard-headed & secretive man whose tough policies have resulted in a ruthless crackdown on illegal immigrants coming to the country), freely abusing the prisoners under his custody. On the acting front, the lead actor William Miller is terrible – he makes stupid mistakes all the time & is not believable as the escaped prisoner. Naschy is a relative show-stealer as the villainous businessman who detained Miller & the dog's gory attacks are probably worth a once-over afternoon viewing for jaded Terminator fans.

Rottweiler is set in the near future in Southern Spain where an American guy named Dante (William Miller) & his girlfriend Ula (Irene Montala) try to enter the country illegally as a stupid bet, unfortunately they are caught & separated with Dante being sent to prison. However when a fellow prisoner is fatally stung by a scorpion Dante senses his opportunity & in the ensuing commotion runs away, despite various guards & a vicious rottweiler in pursuit Dante manages to escape. Not for long however as the killer rottweiler seems to be on a mission to track Dante down & kill him...This Spanish production was produced & directed by the normally very reliable Brian Yuzna but with Rottweiler he's probably turned in his worst film to date, well out of the ones I've seen anyway. The overly serious script by Miguel Tejada-Flores is pretty poor & steals lots of ideas from other better films as many have said before me as it comes across like it's some rubbishy cross between Cujo (1983) & The Terminator (1984) with a bit of Fortress (1994) thrown in there for good measure, while that sounds like a recipe for a decent low budget horror Rottweiler is a pretty bad film all round & isn't necessarily what you think it's going to be. The character's are poor & you never really like Dante or want him to survive, there's absolutely no explanation given about the rottweiler or why it's a robot & if it is a robot why did it go down & stay down for so long after Dante had shot it? I'd have though being a robot it wouldn't have been bothered about being shot & since it did get back up like nothing had happened it makes little sense, as does the rest of the film really. It's basically Dante running from this dog meeting some people along the way all of whom seem to end up killed by the rottweiler but somehow Dante manages to survive every time. As a whole the film is boring, stupid, unexciting, predictable & to round things off is supposed to have a twist ending which sucks.Director Yuzna does OK but the script he had to work with doesn't do him any favours, I really liked the stylish animated credits intro at the start & there are some alright moments in it but by the end I felt even his heart wasn't quite in it. The robotic dog looks cool in some scenes & utterly ridiculous in others, I quite liked his chrome teeth & blue eyes, while he still had proper skin that is. Overall he doesn't do much other than chase Dante & kill a few insignificant people. Gore wise things aren't great, there's a severed head, a severed hand, some bites & blood splatter but little else. There's a nice trip around the Spnish red light district but generally speaking the film lacks atmosphere & isn't scary.Technically Rottweiler is alright, it's well made & Yuzna certainly know how to make a professional looking film, if only he had a better script & better ideas to work with. The acting isn't up to much.Rottweiler is a bad film & there's no two ways about it as far as I'm concerned, probably one to avoid.

Horrendous isn't a strong enough word to describe this film. The movie is about a dog that got trashed as a young dog and got rebuilt with metal bones...yeah okay wolverine go get your own damn plot. Anyways, it continues on about some guy who is hunting for his girlfriend that got taken by some fat dude. This guy somehow manages to shoot this dog to death and it still comes back. I know this is supposed to be a horror movie but it is more along the lines of a comedy/horror. It's so funny its stupid. Craptastic acting, makeup, and the rendering of the dog as pure metal was almost decent. Don't waste your money with this garbage, go buy another film.