Guard Dog

Running time: 90 mins

"If I must pay for my sins, I will make the Lord happy." Welcome to Lima, Peru, land of the doomed and the damned. Meet Perro (Dog), ex-military executioner turned hit man, a killing machine who's forgotten he once was a man. Until, researching a hit, he meets a teenage girl who is innocence personified, and something inside him comes trembling, flickering to life. A caring, a conscience, a soul. If he can save just one person, maybe there's a chance of redemption, even for someone like him. This riveting, politically charged thriller, like a Peruvian Taxi Driver, is both a profound portrait of a complex, lost man, and by extension, of a society gone completely off the tracks. Darker than noir.... this is filmmaking - and acting - with a vengeance. - Charlie Cockey