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Black Dog

User Reviews about Black Dog

Just a random review this time Black Dog directed by Kevin Hooks he also directed Passenger 57 & now he directs TV shows but it's a shame Hooks knows how to make action movie. It stars Patrick Swayze as Jack Crews, Randy Travis, as Earl, Meat Loaf as Red, Graha Beckel as Culter Charles S Duttpn as Agent Alan Ford. Story is Jack Crews is struggling to make end meat for his family his boss Culter offers him a job to take a load of bathroom fixtures to New Jersey. He is also promised his CDL back because 2 years prior he fell asleep at the wheel of his semi killing a motorist & he also experienced a hallucination The Black Dog. Jack meets Red who gives him a rig we also meet Earl, Wes & Sunny. Well things go bad when Jack finds the load is illegal fire arms. Red is sending people to kill Jack cause of failed negotiations about money with Culter. Culter makes sure that Jack does make the trip by taking Jack's Wife & Daughter hostage. That's pretty much the plot. I thought the actors worked real good together Patrick Swayze should've ventured more into the action genere. Action scenes & stunts are great it's a solid movie with a lot of fun to it. -- Another underrated action movie from Swayze 8/10

With generous amounts of vehicular mayhem, Black Dog (1998) delivers what director Kevin Hooks (Passenger 57) intends, a violent, over the edge, high action ride. It is soon established that realism isn't much of a concern, as persons unknown attempt to hijack a truck making a run from Georgia to New Jersey.

In a tragic accident, big rig driver Jack Crews (the late Patrick Swayze) struck and killed some people with his truck. After doing time for manslaughter, and losing his truckers license, Crews now works as a mechanic. Financially strapped, Crews accepts a job offered by his employer Mr. Cutler (Graham Beckel), to make an illegal run up from Atlanta. Unknown to Crews, the truck is loaded with a shipment of weapons, and is the subject of a joint FBI and ATF investigation.

Down in Georgia, Red (Meat Loaf) the Bible quoting owner of R & H Trucking, lays down the law. Crews and Earl (Randy Travis) will be in the rig, escorted by a blue Camaro containing Sonny (Gabriel Casseus) and Wes (Brain Vincent) as backup. The crew are on the road for a short time, when the first attempt to hijack the load occurs. Things get extreme really fast, as Crews leaves dead men and burning wreckage in his wake. Discovering that the shipment includes assault weapons, hardens Crew's determination not to be stopped, but the stakes get even higher, when his wife (Brenda Strong), and daughter are taken hostage.

Once momentum is established, the level of violence remains high up through the finish. Most of the action is vehicular, as cars, trucks, and motor cycles, bang, bump, skid, crash, spin, flip, and explode. The stunts and action are the high points of the film, and they are for the most part, nicely executed. The unstoppable truck has the starring role, and runs over, crushes, and obliterates, whatever gets in the way. Swayze and Travis make a pretty good team, while Charles Dutton and Stephen Tobolowsky head up the law enforcement side. Meat Loaf as the fanatical Red, and the wild-eyed Beckel as Cutler, make shallow, but colorful villains.

A straightforward action feature with bone-jarring hits, and heavy doses of vehicular destruction, Black Dog delivers a truckload of mindless fun. -- renegade truck driver on a demolition run . . .

Brillant movie starring Meat Loaf and Patrick Swayze i would reconmend it to anyone who loves patrick swayze movies. -- Blackdog

It's still fun to watch. I watched it several years ago, and finally bought a copy. Now that Patrick Swayze is gone, I kind of feel nostalgic for his movies. -- Not a great movie

This movie is an awesome movie, and i was glad to finally be able to find it. In the last few months this movie has been running off of the shelves as fast as their putting it out. -- Awesom Movie, hard to find