Reno Rangan "Have you seen John?" is the one question to be answered to the Red and it will be.This movie was based on a true story of the legendary dog called Red dog. And one of a best dog movie ever made after 'Hachiko a dog's tale' and many others. This movie begins with fun in fact lots of loads of fun simultaneously very emotional and heartbreaking tale.Actually it was about a middle aged dog which appears from nowhere to a western Australian mining town called Dampier, and soon after he becomes everyone's dear and loved one which later taken care by them in the small community town without a particular master. When days passes everyone will have their own and unforgettable incidents with him till the day he picks his master.This dog was really so cute and given so adorable expressions throughout the movie. You will love this movie if you ever had a dog like this! The story somewhere crosses and get past through the movie 'Hachiko a dog's tale', I mean there's some similarities between these two but still this movie was independent. It won't tell the exact true story of the Australian legendary red dog which lived in 1970s but made few changes to the movie. The producer of the movie told it is a movie not a documentary, hmm I think the answer is fair enough!This movie must belong to everyone's one of the top Aussie movie into their collection. Highly recommended! Entertainment guaranteed and to have a tear released!

TxMike This is a movie with fictional characters but the story of a dog is based on popular folklore in the NW part of Australia, mostly the mining area on the coast near Dampier. Set in 1971 through 1979, it features the dog named "Red Dog" by the locals, that sort of shows up and becomes part of their lives. (It may be noted that just about everything is red there, because of the red soil and inevitable dust.)The first 15 to 20 minutes are a test of your viewing patience, for there isn't anything there particularly to draw the viewer interest, it just sets the time and location, a rather featureless area. But it does pick up after that and over all it is a superb, funny, and touching movie. Most of it is told in a series of flashbacks as Red Dog appears to be on his deathbed.The biggest name here is Josh Lucas who plays John , an American wanderer who never has spent longer than 2 years at one location in his adult life. He arrives to drive the bus, and Red Dog insinuates himself into John's life. Thus the comment, "sometimes you pick a dog, and sometimes he picks you." Red Dog picked him, even though all the other men would have liked Red Dog to be their best mate.One fateful day John gets a new passenger, very pretty Tasmanian native Rachael Taylor as Nancy , new in the area to work as a secretary. She and John hit it off right away and as it turns out she is the reason he stays there past his usual 2 years.Although this love story of John and Nancy is woven in, the movie always remains about Red Dog, his almost human-like qualities, and his positive influence on the community of workers from all parts of the world. I saw it via Netflix streaming movies, it is one of the better movies I have seen lately.A side note, John has a motorcycle and it is an authentic Honda Four cylinder 750K which was first produced in 1969 and with its innovations changed the world of consumer motorcycles. Seeing that in the movie brought back good memories, a co-worker of mine owned one of those original Honda Fours back in the early 1970s.SPOILERS: John proposes to Nancy, she accepts, but after he leaves her place one morning on his motorcycle he never shows up for work, and no one knows where he is. Friends go looking for him, spot a dead 'roo on the road, then find John had hit it, he lay dead in the ditch. Life goes on but after waiting 3 weeks for John to return, Red Dog spends years wandering all over NW Australia looking for him. Not finding him, as Red Dog gets older and is in a back room of the local bar where everyone congregates, Red Dog gets up and sneaks out. They eventually find him dead, at John's grave site. The movie ends a year later as one of the guys brings Nancy a puppy, it looks just like Red Dog. Plus the locals erect a bronze statue of Red Dog.

seamus-69 Red Dog is a movie which will tell you more about yourself than you might believe. At an extreme, if you like it, you're an empathetic soul who can revel in a good yarn and be whisked away into a world of yesteryear. If you don't like it you are probably a narcissist. So if you know where you sit on the scale between empathetic soul and narcissist you can simply decide to watch it based on your own assumption of your character. The movie has very few flaws (yes I am the empathetic soul) that aren't easily forgivable, the clichés are there but not overstated and the cast all perform admirably. An excellent soundtrack and the best dog acting you may ever see make this a must see family movie. Enjoy it!!

Joe Maguire A dog movie. An Australian dog movie. Not promising I thought. How wrong I was though ... this turned out to be an absolute gem!The acting was not the best but that didn't actually detract from the movie because the focus was firmly on the story and it's star Red Dog, played brilliantly by Koko. This true story (with artistic embellishment no doubt) is laid out in a simple screenplay based on flashbacks to the 1970s recounted by various characters remembering the events surrounding Red Dog. The cinematography is great -- the Western Australian backdrop is really used fully to deliver varied light patterns, treeless plains, blue ocean, and the constant sense of dry heat.I highly recommend this to dog lovers, cat lovers, those looking for a laugh, or a cry, or anyone else for that matter -- loved it! Go Red!