Some minor spoilers follow.This movie should be Exhibit A in how to make a great film. Is the acting good? Nope. Is the plot full of holes? Yup. Are there a multitude of errors? You bet. Is this a great movie? Without a doubt.I have watched this movie numerous times and forced others to watch it with me so that they too can appreciate all that it is. The ending truck battle between our hero and Meatloaf is hilariously epic and how I imagine Meatloaf lives his day-to-day life.My *only regret with this movie is that there wasn't a sequel. *This movie makes me regret not becoming a Truck Driver.

Jack Crews (Patrick Swayze) is a con man, recently released from Prison, is offered a substantial amount of money for one more job. Jack and his wife receive a notice that their house is under foreclosure. This job will free Jack from his predicament. Jack doesn't realize that illegal weapons have been secretly stored in the back of the truck. Jack is in the fight of his life, not only to get paid, but to save his family as wellPatrick Swayze is a man I greatly admire. I always felt he was a very solid actor, but his star power had begun to really fizzle out at this juncture. Black Dog looks and feels like a STD film, but it actually got a theatrical release (!) While there have been bigger bombs than this one at the box office, this one was pretty much a bomb, by making only 12 million. Black Dog cares more about truck carnage, than story coherency. It has plenty of crashes, chases, but I didn't care about any of it, because the story was so poor. We get mystical mumbo-jumbo involving The Black Dog, and it's filled with awful country music, and predictable twists. Be prepared for many jokes when it comes to Randy Travis's character. At one point, Patrick Swayze says to him "You should be a professional singer" How lame can you get? Not only do we have to endure Randy Travis's horrific acting skills, but an unbearably hammy Meat Loaf, who is so OTT, he should be ashamed of himself. I cringed whenever he was on screen. Patrick Swayze does what he can, but he has crappy material to work with. He is watchable as he always is, but this is one of his forgettable performances. It's not his fault, though. His character is written horribly, and he just looks ashamed to be in this film, not that I blame him. We also get one of those annoying false endings. I was relieved this movie was over, and to get a false ending, with a film that wasn't exactly asking for it. It annoyed meFinal Thoughts: Do yourself a favor and skip it. Not even die hard Swayze fans can get much out of this one. I love cheesy movies, but this has no entertainment value. It's a really bad movie, and one I'd suggest you stay away from3.6/10

One would expect that a movie of this name would actually play the Led Zepplin song of the same name somewhere. They don't, though they do mention it. Maybe they just couldn't get the rights to the song. That doesn't matter because it is a pretty decent film anyway and they don't need one Led Zepplin song to make it any better.The movie is based around a truck driver that has had his license suspended for life for culpable driving (vehicular manslaughter in the US). He has just been released and is given a job repairing trucks. His boss is a crook though and wants him to run a shipment of guns from Atlanta to New Jersey, something which he does not want to do. When he discovers that his house is about to be repossessed by the bank, he changes his mind and takes the job.The movie thus becomes a road movie in a very big truck. But there are numerous other aspects, like the theme of appearance and reality and trust. There are numerous people in the movie that have many different motives and we are never sure who is on the truckies side. The only people we know are who they claim to be are the driver and his family. Everybody else seem to have other things on their mind, and even more, they may seem bad and turn out to be good.One may be interested in why the movie is called Black Dog. Decent name, but there is a reason behind it. It seems at first that it may have something to do with the black pitbull in the back of the truck, but this is not the case. It is actually a truckie legend, that before the truckie falls, they will see the black dog. It is a harbinger of doom and a humbler of proud souls. The black dog is only added as character background and there is never any appearance of it during the journey.Black Dog is an action movie with big trucks. If you like trucks, then Black Dog is a good movie. If you like seeing trucks get smashed up and destroyed, then you will seriously like Black Dog. It has a simple plot with a fair bit of action. There is time where is focuses on character development, but it is seeing the truck scenes that captures your minds with this movie rather than the interaction.

The movie talks upon an ex-con named Jack(Patrick Swayze), he's working as mechanic in New Jersey, the bank is about to evict his house and he has no other choice taking a job for Red(Meat Loaf), driving a large truck in a long ride cross county, all the way from Atlanta . The truck is filled with illegal arms and he must to fight for saving his spouse(Brenda Strong) and daughter. Meanwhile the ATF and Feds (Stephen Tobolowski, Charles S Dutton, Lorraine Toussaint)are after from him.The motion picture packs noisy action, race trucks, exciting thriller and is quite amusing, furthermore contains an eerie twist plot with the legend of apparition an ominous black dog. It's entertaining because from the beginning to the end the action packed and suspense is nonstop. Patrick Swayze( unforgettable in Dirty dancing) as a two-fisted action man saving his family is cool though a little wizened.Colorful cinematography and catching musical score by George S Clinton. The picture is professionally directed by Kevin Hooks( son of actor Robert Hooks).He's an action movies expert (Passenger 57 , Fled, among others), though he usually works for television , filming known and famous series( Prison break, 24, Lost, Cold case, NYPD Blue..). Rating : Acceptable and passable and it will like to action movies buffs and Patrick Swayze fans.