The bad news is that there was plenty of Bible in this film but no connects. Meat Loaf plays a bad guy by the name of Red who runs a trucking outfit out of Georgia. He is hooked up in some shady deals transporting weapons to cities in the north. Swayze plays, Jack Crews, the driver, who flies down to drive one of these trucks north, unaware of the contents of his illegal cargo.

We first meet Red when he yells some obscure comment about the Gates of Babylon from Isaiah 2 and asks Crews if he reads his Bible. I honestly could not understand the mumbled response. The next scene cuts to a picture of Jesus above Red's desk. He chews a worker out for "taking the Lord's name in vain," and lives like he does. Time and again the viewer is confused by Red's actions of bullying his employees, cussing, attempting to high jack his own truck, and kill several people - all the while yelling scriptures. What is wrong with this picture (literally)?

As Red drives like the devil to run people off the road he yells, "never underestimate the power of prayer." Huh? Did I miss the chapel scene? He survives a terrible accident and as he gets back on the road screams, "Witness the resurrection." Driving through a wall, "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death..." Crashing on through the wall as his truck hits a train, "I fear no evil." Whatever.

There was no connection between what Red was saying and how he was living. This Bible-spouting idiot was made to look like more of an idiot because he shouted scriptural like obscenities. They used southern Christianity to make him look like a hypocrite. At a time when the majority of scripts are moving away from this stereotypical portrayal of Bible believers, "Black Dog" stands alone. It was very obvious they were picking on Christians. The scriptures were connected to scenes in the movie but the character spouting them had no connection to what he was saying. There was no context in his life for the connection, hence, it was not credible only laughable.

But isn't it interesting that the Bible is being used as a textbook for film writing. The number of films that use the Bible as a resource appears to be growing. The spiritual hunger and need is there. By spouting scripture Red had some mystery to him. If they would have fleshed out his character more it would have made him more interesting. Someone in real life that connected to scripture would have been more complex in their motivation. A touch of reality would have helped.