A policeman and a female scientist team up to recover her latest creation, a cybernetic, crime-fighting dog.A policeman and a female scientist team up to recover her latest creation, a cybernetic, crime-fighting dog.A policeman and a female scientist team up to recover her latest creation, a cybernetic, crime-fighting dog.
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Jerry Houser
- Niner
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Judson Scott
- Anton Zeiss
- (as Judson Earney Scott)
Tom McFadden
- Banks
- (as Thom McFadden)
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3mrw8
Take the most washed out James Bond plot of world domination and arch criminals and sloppy dialog, add a talking cybernetic canine, and you have K-9000. If you don't laugh when the dog is wearing sunglasses, then you must have no sense of humor. This is like Knight Rider meets Turner and Hooch. If that isn't a winning combination I don't know what is. The actors are so washed up they had to take a taxi to the shooting location, which definitely belonged to one of the producers. In the final scene the criminal mastermind is thrown off a raised platform. You can see the foam coming out of the dummy. My favorite is the sunglasses on the dog. classic.
This...is...the.....GREATEST MOVIE EVER!!!!!!!!!! This movie has everything. Acid washed shorty-shorts, a dog with a microchip in his head, a meat-head, brick-like, mullet-ed, sassy, take-no-guff renegade cop, also with a microchip in his head, and a woman with a wool sweater that says "Mean Streets" on the back. I'm contemplating suicide because there is no way life can better than this! From here on out, it's only gonna be downhill. I tried to think of something that could make this movie better, but you know what? I couldn't think of anything. If you also enjoy this movie, you may want to check out the Elmore Leonard novel, The Switch, on which this film is loosely based.
Whoever came up with this rather derivative quasi sci-fi idea of a dog who is part computer and able to communicate via an implant is probably dismayed at the way it was all put together. It looks like a pilot for a series that wasn't picked up, and no wonder thanks to the lame direction and overall weak production work.
First, what 's the idea of introducing the dog halfway through the film, rather than earlier? That's pretty bad form, as the whole idea of the dog/cop team is what piques our interest here. And then, even though it's 1991, everything looks like leftover 1985 Miami Vice stuff, especially Chris Mulkey's mullet haircut. Also, there's no pacing, no suspense nor tension anywhere in the film, and very few laughs provided by the dog/cop interaction, where one would expect more than what's given here.
Skip it.
First, what 's the idea of introducing the dog halfway through the film, rather than earlier? That's pretty bad form, as the whole idea of the dog/cop team is what piques our interest here. And then, even though it's 1991, everything looks like leftover 1985 Miami Vice stuff, especially Chris Mulkey's mullet haircut. Also, there's no pacing, no suspense nor tension anywhere in the film, and very few laughs provided by the dog/cop interaction, where one would expect more than what's given here.
Skip it.
Saw it on TV today, the premise was interesting, and the situations in the movie, while far fetched, were good enough to keep my interests. If theres nothing else on, its something I'd watch again. 6.5 out of 10
This movie is highly unrealistic. I turned on the television to watch some television and this was on...and my children were in the room!! I found it highly disturbing that they had a dog that could talk. that just won't ever happen IRL folks! SORRY! but i like movies with a plot I can relate to! SORRY!
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- TriviaCompleted in 1989, but not released until 1991 on the USA. It was released directly on video on other countries between 1989 and 1990.
- GoofsAfter Eddie shoots the deadbolt lock (which wouldn't have opened the lock anyway) in the back door of the room where the incubator was located, the door is opened to reveal there is no strike plate or even a hole in the door frame to accept the bolt. The deadbolt could not have been locked. The strike plate for the doorknob is visible, but there should have been another one above it.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Best TV Shows That Never Were (2004)
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