Good Boy

Indy is adorable and a great actor. This is an endearing story about the protective bond between dogs and humans . It has a clever concept and the suspense, effects are great for such a small budget film

No es mala, pero hay 1000 opciones mejores para pasar el rato. Me dejó indiferente.

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

So tired of those low-budget nothingburgers "horror" movies. The dogs are cute and the shots and effects are beautiful, but it's so f*cking booooooooooring and zero scary...

What the hell is going on here? Why is there anybody rating this thing above a 5? Is it original? Yes, it is. However, that doesn't make it a good movie. Does it have a cute dog that seems to be really intelligent and is the best animal actor I have ever seen? Yes. However, that also doesn't make it a good movie. The bottom line is that this film is a little over an hour and even that felt like a stretch for the writers. Because they almost had nothing to fill that hour with. It was such a slog, my god. I caught myself falling asleep multiple times within just the first 20 minutes. My girlfriend and I almost shut it off but that just isn't our style. We pride ourselves on finishing films. "Good Boy" brought us to our limit. This movie isn't scary, it isn't tense, there wasn't a single moment that I was on the edge of my seat for, and it doesn't have "heart" like many reviewers say. The lack of heart is in large part due to the fact that the only real human actor in the film is absolutely atrocious. The actor who plays Todd actually sounds like he is a dubbing actor who would get work speaking on any number of Japanese/Korean films. Every line of his sounds incredibly forced and I am convinced his dialogue was added in post. The pacing is nonexistent because you can't pace a film if it has nothing of interest in it. It is just the dog seeing the shadow figure and reacting (or not reacting) to it; then rinse and repeat. My girlfriend gets scared at pretty much any horror film but this didn't even come close to creeping her out. We were too busy trying to stay awake or also trying to figure out what the hell was going on: Is the shadow creature the manifestation of death that only the dog can see? Or is it an actual demonic entity that has wiped out multiple people in Todd's family tree? As it turns out, the creator of the film doesn't know the answer to that question either. Unlike the creator though, I just don't care. Finally, I want to mention the lack of investment I had in the character, Todd. A wooden portrayal and thin writing have Todd basically behaving like a diseased piece of wood. There is nothing interesting about him. He loves his dog. Or does he? Why the HELL would Todd chain the dog up the way he did? What was that even about? And did Todd end his own life with pills? Because he left his dog outside chained up and that likely would have caused the dog to die from thirst or starvation. Why was he treating his sister so poorly? Oh yeah, I don't care. Only pseudo intellectuals who want to feel artsy and special will (pretend to) like this drivel. The rest of us see it for what it is, a novelty with a fun concept but horribly executed as if it were made by a bunch of film school students.