MAN'S BEST FRIEND

A couple of daring journalists infiltrate the laboratories of E-Max, a company that conducts genetic experiments on animals, in an attempt to produce a report denouncing the torture inflicted on the poor beasts. But not everything goes as planned, and they find themselves fleeing, taking with them a giant dog with a docile appearance, which is actually nothing more than the result of a futuristic genetic experiment. The dog has within it the special abilities of other animals, making it a real super-dog worth a million dollars. The journalists do not know that the beast is mentally unstable, a killing machine ready to explode at any moment. The plot of this film by John Lafia (already director of "Bambola Assassina 2") certainly does not aim for originality, exploiting a series of cinematic and narrative clichés already abused to infinity. Some ideas seem interesting, the dog's multiple abilities seem to promise a good dose of entertainment, even if their concrete manifestation fails to scare at all: watching the dog exploit the chameleon's ability and appear out of nowhere inside a dark room, or climb like a jaguar up a tree to eat a cat makes you smile more than anything else. The film also offers very little from the "splatter" point of view, an aspect that would probably have increased the interest in a film already too lacking in emotional tension. The mediocre acting of the actors (with the exception of the good old Lance Henriksen, who deserves a passing grade only for the name he carries) and the shortcomings in terms of screenwriting ultimately provide a flat, boring, sometimes forced and annoyingly comic film, which adds nothing to what we have already seen in the cinema at least a thousand times. Not bad, but practically useless.