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Puppy (2005/Dokument/MPI DVD)

 

Picture: C     Sound: C+     Extras: D     Feature: D

 

 

In what has become a subgenre of the Torture Porn film, we have an endless parade of dumb films about people being kidnapped and then trying to have a story where some kind of significant point and/or story is told.  However, these films trivialize such situations and Mark Atkins’ Puppy (2005) is the latest forgettable film to do so, even if this is a German import.

 

This time, a trucker saves a young lady thrown out of her house as she is about to commit suicide, but he is not a nice guy but a kidnapper and worse.  In real life, this is called a heinous crime, but here, it thinks it is some kind of psychological thriller, but it instead gives such films a bad name.  This one is boring and dumb.  Everyone is a cardboard cutout and that only further trivializes all of it.  Yawn!

 

The anamorphically enhanced 2.35 X 1 image is bad too, surprisingly soft, color and detail challenged, it is hard to believe a new film like this looks so poor.  The Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo is better and sounds like a new recording, but it is not without its limits.  There are, not surprisingly, no extras.

 

 

-   Nicholas Sheffo


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