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
