Linbeymusol Wonderful character development!

Pluskylang Great Film overall

Dirtylogy It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Yash Wade Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

david-robin In 1999, ultra-violence was the opportunity for Jan Kounen, a mediocre French director, to create some hype around his first full-length movie.Dobermann (young Vincent Cassel) is a gangster with his team of crazy violent sidekicks. He is engaging in a new series of bank robbery, but he has to confront with a brigade of tuff policemen. One of these cops (Tchéky Karyo) has fascist methods, using torture as an investigation mean.The cinematography is hideous : the color balance is outrageous, and the wardrobe and hairdresser director should be fired. Kounen wants to prove his mastery of cinematography, and the film is a mixbag of every idea he has stolen from the classics : split-screen, slow-motion, stroboscopic effects, muted audio track, wide angle camera, Hitchcock's dolly zoom. But the final mix is like a cocktail of chocolate, vodka and ketchup : you just want to vomit.Unfortunately, the film is totally wasted. The characters are so stupid you don't know if you should laugh at them, or at the pretentious director who created them. Dobermann himself is supposed to be impressive, but he has no impact on script, close to being transparent.Jan Kounen might have wanted to create a kind of pamphlet about police and how cops can sometimes act worse than criminals... but Doberman is more like the non-sense of a 7-year-old kid who has smoke weed.

eighty_t Story follows the gang of bank robbers trying to pull of the greatest heist of all times by robbing every major bank in the city, in one go. In their way stands an evil cop who will stop at nothing to get the gang leader. Violence is quite strong, and people are dropping like flies. The strongest point of Doberman are the hilarious characters who include murderer priest, brass knuckles specialist Pitbull, Sonia The Blowjob Artist and many others. Top stars Cassell, Bellucci, Karyo and all the rest of the cast are really at their top form. There is plenty of laughts and rude humour in it, great shootouts and excellent soundtrack. If you can through the opening credits with smile the rest is just an entertaining ride. People who enjoyed early Tarantino movies will like this one. Watching well recommended.

dbborroughs The plot is simple, Dobermann and band of bank robbers are hunted by the police as they plan and execute a robbery. What they don't count on is that a crazed policeman is on their tail and will stop at nothing to stop them. The dialog is witty, the film making flashy, and the violence is brutal. So why don't I like this more? Lets face it this film exists simply to look cool and so the film makers could shoot things. The film looks great and the gunfights and the action sequences are mind blowing, the problem is that despite some witty dialog the film is rather dull when things aren't being blown up. I got to a point where I was reaching for the remote to get to speed to the next bit of action. Thats not a good sign.Should you see this movie? If you like big action sequences with lots of guns blazing, absolutely. You might also want to check this out to see one of the great screen villains as represented by the crazed cop who is hunting the gang. He will stop at nothing to get his man including giving a grenade to a baby.6 out of 10, great action and style takes the place of plot and character development.

SnakesOnAnAfricanPlain 'Dobermann' begins with a CGI dog shooting and urinating on peoples names. Next we have a scene where a christening turns into a baby getting his hands on a gun. Cut to a few years later and the criminal known as Dobermann shoots some kind of special bullet that can stop a lorry in its tracks. 'Dobermann' is an over-the-top stylish action gangster film that for once doesn't come from Japan. Dobermann and his posse which include a perverted, deadly priest, his death girlfriend, and a gay transvestite, go to pull of a bank robbery or two. Cue some violent set pieces such as the classic grenade in the motorbike helmet scene, with full head-on explosion. They get away but of course a heist movie can't go smoothly. So the second half of the film concentrates on the cops. The cop in charge happens to be more messed up and violent than the criminals, one of his interrogation methods includes giving a grenade to a baby. The police soon lodge a full on assault at a nightclub that Dobermann is frequenting. The plot is thin, the action fast and ferocious. Nothing quite like death by having your face scraped across the road while hanging out a fast moving car. So what if the plot is thin and the characters aren't really well drawn out? SO what if the film lacks any sense of morality? It's a wild ride not meant to be taken seriously. The direction fits in perfectly with what is going on. The characters, or rather caricatures, are memorable and each has their own memorable characteristic. The nightclub assault is full on action that wont disappoint adrenaline junkies. If nothing else 'Dobermann' gives French cinema a kick up the behind (not that one was needed), actually it gives French cinema a beating it wont soon forget.