Black Dog

A film review by Christopher Null - Copyright © 2000 Filmcritic.com

Ah, the days of playing with "big rig" Tonka trucks, dump trucks, cranes, and other metal beasts of burden as a kid. Black Dog may be heinously stupid (Patrick Swayze, fresh out of jail, opts to earn $10,000 to run guns for Meat Loaf), but boy do the memories of crashing those Tonkas through a pile of Hot Wheels come back. No, there's nothing at all of interest here besides some incredible 80,000-pound trucks that jackknife, fall off of cliffs, and explode... but isn't that enough?

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Rating

2.5 out of 5 Stars

Cast and Crew

  • Director: Kevin Hooks
  • Producer: Raffaella De Laurentiis, Mark W. Koch, Peter Saphier, Jim Wedaa
  • Screenwriter: William Mickelberry, Dan Vining
  • Stars: Patrick Swayze, Randy Travis, Meat Loaf, Gabriel Casseus, Brian Vincent, Brenda Strong, Graham Beckel, Stephen Tobolowsky, Lorraine Toussaint, Cyril O'Reilly, Erin Broderick
  • MPAA Rating: PG-13