User Reviews

The movie is intense. Eckhart doing his thing and well. It would have been much much better if they gave little more attention to details and didn't rush the end of the movie. Everything just wrapped in 5 minutes. Opening is good. Then time line seems to scatter a bit but moreover supportive characters like Stephen Lang, Mia are not involved much in the story. Almost felt like the director wanted the finish the movie and move on the next project. Satanistas could have gotten a more insight like how they treat the dogs and what the woman is about. Superior played by Nick Searcy seeems all involved in it but northing happens. He turns out out a@@hole boss. I hate when they waste great material.

I really enjoyed this movie. I did mark the spoiler and it's only a little one. Yes at times it was slow and a bit unbelievable. They connected a couple relationships and didn't give enough background or enough time to explain. They disrespected the K9 units and I have a really hard time believing any officers would show so much disrespect like that. **spoiler** especially after Ace was shot and he's running with him in his arms yelling officer down and no one is helping him. They are all just standing there rolling their eyes and making faces. I mean come on really!? But yet they all give Ace a big funeral then fail to mention he was a veteran of war as well. ** end spoiler** I would hope that if this were a real K9 officer this would be different... that's all I kept thinking at a few different places through the whole movie. The movie did hold my attention all the way to the end and that's hard to do and I even teared up at a couple points (and that's even harder to do). So overall I did enjoy it.

If someone asked me to summarize what the movie was about, I'd seriously struggle.

There's no real point or storyline in this movie. The scenes are out of context and I struggled following the storyline. For example the pathetic attempt at a love relationship - what the heck was that?

1) they say hi 2) they xxx 3) she gets mad at him and leaves 4) they have a child together

What?

Some scenes are with no followup - like athe beef between Aaron's character and a colleague of his. What was the point of that one scene? Didn't add any value or point to the "story". The same goes for the meetings with a psychiatrist - no real dialogue, depth is something to dream about - or point in those scenes.

I found it overly graphic towards the end - unnecessarily so. The ambush at the end of the movie was also kind of a head scratcher - killing 3000 other dogs just to save one? Wasn't the movie called "Muzzle" suggesting it's about love for dogs and the relationship between humans and dogs? That shouldn't include killing those the main character wasn't close to.

Anyhow, I just finished watching the movie and too many thoughts are going through my head - all of them how terrible this movie was. If they had the funding and Aaron, why not make a proper movie with it?

Aaron Eckhart is a really good actor but he can't have read the script properly before signing up to this one.

The dogs are amazing which saves this from a one star.

Too many questions and zero answers!

Why did the paramedic not help him? He was literally putting a plaster on someone - the dog was clearly dying!

How was a traumatised dog which didn't listen to a word he said sanctioned to be an active police dog?

The sniper guy hated him and then all of a sudden showed up to help. How did he get there so fast!?

Who was the baddy person?

How did they have a baby so fast when she left him? Was she already pregnant? No chemistry whatsoever.

WHY DID THE DOG ONLY HAVE THREE LEGS!?! So unnecessary. Terrible ending.

Cards on the table: I'm an unashamed fan of Aaron Eckhart's.

He's private with his private life, he's a good actor who's always interesting to watch and he's a handsome lad.

This film HAD potential.

The first hour or so was an interesting look at the solitary life of a cop in the canine unit and the reality of his job and the beat he's patrolling - the homeless encampments of downtown LA. Both the invisibles of society.

There was an attempt to address the scourge of Fentanyl addiction which has many states unable to cope.

So far, so interesting if a little slow.

All of a sudden, he gets a girlfriend, (why? - he would have been more believable as an older sexually ambiguous man who struggles with intimacy because of his combat history in Iraq - but I digress) his neighbour and they're shagging within 5 minutes of meeting.

Totes legit babes. And believable.

Then he gets involved with a drug gang, we're not quite sure if he's been sacked from his job because he's killed 2 people and then there's a female cartel boss stealing his dog (not sure why) then Pote from Queen Of The South turns up as a police dog dealing lumberjack and then Aaron goes all Rambo and kills everyone in 3 minutes suddenly helped by his sniper colleague who's hated him for the duration of the movie.

Cut to he now has a baby with the neighbour, still driving the drug dealers' stolen truck, and his dog loses a leg.

The End.

Que?

I mean I've seen episodes of Law & Order - Organised Crime - which made more sense.

And Chris Meloni is just as cute BTW.

Aaron, DARLING, bubbala, you've got to start getting on your knees again my love because this was easily one of the most nonsensical, rushed, poorly edited films I've seen since....... Yentl?

Who on earth did you piss off at Central Casting?

I've given this 3 stars because it's you (and I still would) even after this ridiculous storyline and atrocious studenty, we just ran out of money, ending.

But the film?

Ay dreadful.

Get a new agent my love because this one is either trying to torpedo your career or trying to make sure you only get hired by Lifetime.

No bueno.

And please don't get plastic movie star teef, I'm liking you grizzled and slightly wrecked looking.

How on God's Earth can a movie with stars like Aaron Eckhart, Nick Searcy and Stephen Lang in it be so atrociously awful? I've been a huge fan of Eckhart, Searcy and Lang (Lang all the way back to the 80's and Searcy all the way back to the 90's) and I can't believe they would appear in such a dreadful film as this. The writing is all over the place and doesn't come close to achieving the impact intended (whatever that might be.... I still haven't figured it out). The evil woman controlling his dog is nonsensical and detracts horribly from the movie. It didn't make sense at all. The ending is puzzling, nonsensical and just nauseating. I'm glad he winds up with the woman AND the dog but why is the dog missing a leg? Ridiculous!

The story woulda, coulda and shoulda been a terrific one - following a human K9 Officer working the streets with a fabulous K9 partner who gets killed in the line-of-duty and struggling to overcome the loss. Then finally coming to terms with it, acquiring a new dog albeit one with as many or more physical, mental and emotional injuries as himself. In the hands of a competent, highly skilled writer, director and editor this could have been one of the finest films of the year. Instead, regretfully, it turns out to be one of the worst.

Officer Jake Rosser (Aaron Eckhart) is a K-9 cop on patrol. He talks to his dog like it is a person. Jake tells him stories about Iraq. He gets called to a crime scene. Things go bad. His dog gets shot and dies as he punches out an EMT who treats humans first over dogs. Jake is placed on leave and must see a shrink over his anger management issues. He wants revenge for his dog. Jake gets another dog. One that has a muzzle because she snaps. He trains with "Socks" who seems to be known by Dante, a street informer who does not speak much but like Huggy Bear gets all kinds of information.

I was pretty bored with the film which just seemed to go through the motions of a crime drama.

Guide: F-word. Implied sex. No nudity.

Do not watch this movie if you love dogs. I was initially keen to watch this movie but I wish I had not bothered. The trailer looks rather good, and gives the impression that it was going to be a revenge movie whereby he gets payback for the death of his dog. However, the movie left me feeling rather uncomfortable about the mistreatment of dogs and sad to think that this might actually go on in the world. The acting is not awful but I think more dogs died during this movie than actual people. Extremely disappointing and if this is what you think the public want to watch, I would not give up the day job.

This began so well, a true buddy movie, with a dog. Of course the dog is killed and, for some reason, the police bosses really go to town on Eckhart, hanging him out to dry, so we see the process of his therapy, his coming to terms with the loss, but all the time he's wanting to find the people responsible for his dog's death. The acting was believable, and I was gripped by the action.

All good so far, and we understand his situation of loss, but the plot just unravels and there is a lot looseness to the rest of what happens. Several bad guys are mentioned here and there, and we're not too sure what's happening, but my main issue was the colleague who hates him, despite all the trouble Eckhart has been through, but suddenly in the 3rd act becomes his best mate FOR ABSOLUTELY NO REASON, and the happy ever after ending seems to happen all of a sudden, like the writers only had another 3 minutes to wrap the story before submission.

It was okay, but nothing special at all.

A very imbroglio film with unneat screenplay, plots and sub-plots. How many times do I need to see that ugly face of the psychiatrist or psychotherapist?! Came here to watch Ace and Socks, not mumbo jumbo K9 character officers with dark pasts and anger issues, let alone PTSD that is not very relatable and palpable here.

When you have a movie where you see more of a psychiatrist and a wannabe girlfriend, with mishmash German-speaking "ghost" people in the background and shadows of grunting dogs here and there, then you could averagely care and most of all, the ending did not help. Needed it to be that way?!

Triangle, 130 degree Fahrenheit and frying eggs on hot rocks!

• Screenplay/storyline/plots: 5.5
• Development: 6.5
• Realism: 6
• Entertainment: 5.5
• Acting: 5.5
• Filming/photography/cinematography: 6.5
• VFX: 8
• Music/score/sound: 5.5
• Depth: 5
• Logic: 3.5
• Flow: 5
• Action/crime/thriller: 4.5
• Ending: 5.