1989 · action · comedy · crime
K-9
Directed by Rod Daniel1h 41m1989
The extravagant cop Michael Dooley needs some help to fight a drug dealer who has tried to kill him. A "friend" gives him a dog named Jerry Lee (Officer Lewis), who has been trained to smell drugs. With his help, Dooley sets out to put his enemy behind the bars, but Jerry Lee has a personality of his own and works only when he wants to. On the other hand, the dog is quite good at destroying Dooley's car, house and sex-life...
Our read: K-9 (1989) reads as a neutral, breathless, grounded action · comedy · crime entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, measured action / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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