★★★★ The old show adage says “neither with children nor with dogs”, that you don’t act with these beings because they tend to steal the spotlight. Well, Channing Tatum doesn’t care about everything and not only acts but also co-directs this story about a soldier who has to go on a trip with a Belgian Sheepdog with a history of bad behavior to attend the funeral of the animal’s owner who later will be “put to sleep.” But the trip, as it happens in the movies of uneven couples, makes the hostility between man and dog gradually transform into something else. There is a lot of comedy, but the most interesting thing is that the relationship between the two does not come from blows, but from a certain dryness that makes everything more credible. The landscape, the journey are not only a framework for the actions but also a reflection of what is happening to which one has no choice but to love with tears at the end.
