Lab experiments on a dog turn manís best friend into his biggest fear when a nosey news reporter lets him out of his cage and into society where no one is safe, man or beast.
Man's Best Friend starts with news reporter Lori Tanner getting a call by a lab tech at a place called Emax, a place where they do sick experiments on animals. Judy, the lab tech offers Lori a way to get into the lab to do a story on the experiments on the animals within and goes on with her daily work to find her end when one of the animals gets out of her cage and when she goes to investigate, gets attacked by the animal that belongs to the cage.
That night Lori and her partner go to Emax and when she canít get ahold of Judy she decides sheís going to sneak in. So they break in, recording all the injured experimented animals. In the middle of their romp in the lab the doctor that runs the lab, Dr. Jarret, makes his way to the lab. Lori comes across Max the dog, who seems so innocent and likable, so Lori opens his cage to get some video for her intro to the newscast sheís trying to create, and he gets loose. Suddenly Dr. Jarret comes in and breaks up the party, the two women running for their lives, Max on their trail jumping in the back of their car. Little does Lori know that Max isnít an ordinary dog. On the way home the girls are mugged and Max breaks out and chases after the mugger and brings Loriís purse back to her. So she brings him home in hopes to domesticate him as her own pet and everything seems to be fine, he minds well, does whatís commanded of him and he seems to be a normal dog, on the outside. But as we find, inside the confines of the lab Max has been experimented on an engineered into a ruthless predator. Mixed with DNA from animals like chameleons, snakes, owls, jaguars, bears and tigers, Max is a genetically engineered killer just waiting to blow up. Only Dr. Jarret knows exactly how dangerous Max is. Will he get to him in time or will Max kill everything in sight?
 
Personally this movie, I thought was cheesy when I watched it about 10 years ago. But after time it kinda grew on me. Mind you it seems very far fetched but itís got an original plot and Max really seems like a nice dog until he hits his breaking point. Adding Ally Sheedy and Lance Henriksen in the mix as the main stars and you're good to go. Both Lance and Ally did great in the movie, putting a great light on their careers Iím sure.
Iíd say watch this movie if you want to watch a lick that wouldnít need much edited out for TV, of course remember that the guy that directed this movie, John Lafia, went on to direct Childs Play 2, that lame piece of shit of a movie, and even had hand in writing the screenplay for the original Childs Play. With that said I dock him on that because I HATE the Childs Play movies, but this movie isnít as terrible.
If you liked Monkey Shines you might like this, I'd say that's the only movie I'd compare it to, if not don't really go out and SEARCH for this flick, I wouldn't personally own it, just rent it if I was bored.
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MOVIE YEAR: 1993
DIRECTOR: John Lafia
WRITING CREDITS: John Lafia
GENRE: Sci-Fi, Horror, Thriller
CAST: Ally Sheedy, Lance Henriksen, Robert Costanzo
COUNTRY: USA
RUNTIME: 97 min
RATING: 6/10
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