Sick Puppy

Sick Puppy had a premise that sounded intriguing, but it lost its appeal for me pretty quickly.

One of my biggest problems was how little thought seemed to go into the portrayal of serial killers. Their behaviour never felt grounded or believable. Instead, it often seemed like the film was choosing whatever might look disturbing or interesting in the moment, without considering whether it made sense for the characters or the story.

The acting didn't help. The performances felt extremely weak, and I never really believed these people as characters. That became an even bigger problem with the main character. Her transformation throughout the film simply didn't make sense to me. There wasn't a convincing psychological progression between the person we meet at the beginning and the person she eventually becomes. It felt like she changed because the writers wanted her to, rather than because anything we'd seen actually explained that change.

What frustrated me most is that there were some genuinely interesting ideas here. The film had opportunities to explore them, but it never seemed interested in doing much with its strongest material. Instead, scenes and character choices often felt disconnected from one another, as though individual moments were given more thought than how everything would work together as a complete story.

Then there's the ending. It felt like the film was reaching for something artistic or provocative, but it never seemed to know what it wanted to say. The result felt disconnected from the rest of the film, almost as though the writers had reached the end of the story without figuring out how they actually wanted to finish it.

There may have been a much more interesting movie somewhere inside Sick Puppy. Unfortunately, the weak performances, unbelievable characters, underdeveloped ideas, and lack of a coherent character arc made it very difficult for me to care enough to find it.