K-911 1999 by AverageMansReviews

K-911 1999 by AverageMansReviews

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Warning: there is flashing effects/colourful effects/medical/animal waste

We're both getting old and one of us is out of shape for this: after failing to apprehend the criminal Captain Byers [James Handy] decides to team up Detective Mike Dooley [James Belushi] and his partner Police Officer Jerry Lee [Mac, Sonto or Reno the German shepherds] with Sergent Welles [Christine Tucci] with another partner Zeus the Dobermann or Dobermann Pinscher [Lucan, Taze or Jasmine] to solve this case and on top of that Dooley and Wellas have personal history.

The pacing of this 91 minutes film is good; it settles down quickly and smoothly, it just knows what it is doing and gets on with it. The comedy and action is all of good content; be it Dooley and Jerry Lee getting ready for work, chasing this criminal down and unfortunately struggling with them both needing oxygen with oxygen masks on after this chasing down sequence, whilst I am here there are two scenes that feel like and this is just speculation/opinion that between Dooley and Byers they are performing like The Three Stooges: yes I can see the problem here there are at minimum Three Stooges and there are only two characters here, but putting that to one side for a moment. In a nutshell Byers goes to slap Dooley around the face, but Dooley dodges either way in some capacity, but eventually Byers hit his target or later on these two characters are arguing about guns; this particular scene may not be three Stooges-esque, both of these scenes have that kind of feeling of The Three Stooges tone and in one way or another we have lists of things that Dooley and Jerry Lee don't do and very finally we have done Jerry Lee his ball breaking thing.

The character developments and performances; the character developments are good, well minus one problem which I will discuss in the final section of this review. But generally speaking the all-round chemistry from this cast, in particular the fivesome/different numbers on-screen at that particular time of Dooley, Jerry Lee, Welles, Zeus and when Byers. But just to single out Dooley and Jerry Lee for a moment; in this sequel it explores the sands of time and the strong bond and love that they have for one another, at least they did this relationship/bond justice which on a grand scale of things is so much more important.

This film receives: 6/10, this film is good; on one hand this is a good film which is moves things on from the previous film K-9 1989 if you are interested to hear/read my thoughts on that here is the Link  https://averagemansreviews2017.blogspot.com/2022/06/k-9-1989-by-averagemansreviews.html,but on the other hand it gives away the bad person way, way, way too early; it tells its audiences with big capital letters in a fireworks display "YES THIS IS THE BAD PERSON!" I know with the previous film we joined the case as it was ongoing, at the beginning of that film, but in this project establishing the physical identity of this individual very early on is the only problem that it has and I have just remembered it makes covering his face a complete waste of time, I mean the more I think about it, the more I would have preferred a close-up of a part of his face or body parts so you can have him on screen doing whatever, but we don't know who he is until later on or something like that you know to try and keep the mystery going for as long as you can.