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 Unleashed (DVD)
Description: Genre: Action & Adventure / Theatrical Release: 2005 / Director: Louis Leterrier / Actors: Jet Li, Michael Webber ... / ... more  Unleashed (DVD) ... DVD released 21 November, 2005 at Universal Pictures UK / Features of the DVD: Anamorphic, PAL / Martial arts superstar Jet Li reteams with French writer-director Luc Besson (Kiss of the Dragon) in this psychological action film shot in Glasgow, Scotland. Li stars as Danny, a human attack dog for a powerful mobster he calls Uncle Bart (Bob Hoskins, lNewest Review: ... though Danny is subdued, quiet, child like and even comes across as slightly retarded, a completely different person from his ... more ... fighting persona.
He knows no other life until a job in an antiques warehouse brings him into contact with Sam (Morgan Freeman), a blind piano tuner. The kindness in his voice and the sound of the piano brings a change over Danny and he misses his cue for action and suffers the full rage of Bart. As they leave the warehouse their car is involved in a big accident and Danny thinks he is the only survivor, he wanders around and eventually finds his way back to Sam and takes him back to his place, where he lives with ...more |
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Unleashed (DVD): Who let the Dog out? (1091 words)
by Ailran - written on 18.01.08 (Very useful, 115 readings)
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Luc Besson (Nikita, Fifth Element) scripts a curious enigma of a film here. A French star writer/director writing a film set in Glasgow (although it could be anywhere and there is only one mention of Glasgow in the whole film!) about two Americans living there and starring Jet Li, an Asian superstar yet to really make it big in Hollywood. It sounds like a right dogs dinner and the story is even more of a mixed bag, a mix that includes martial arts (from Li), gangsters (Bob Hoskins and his gang) and inspirational drama (Li, Morgan Freeman and Kerry Condon). As such, while it is fairly enjoyable it will never completely satisfy any fans of each of the genres. ...
Get 'EM (1626 words)
by plipplop - written on 20.12.06 (Very useful, 103 readings)
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Danny is a slave to his uncle Bart. Literally. Reared like a caged animal, Bart exerts complete control over Danny via a simple collar worn round the young man's neck. With the collar in place, Danny is completely submissive, doing and saying nothing and literally waiting for the command to go into action. When the command comes, it is a simple one. The collar is removed and Danny is told to "Get em!". And so he does. Punching, kicking and screaming until every one of his targets is on the floor. It's a very effective technique, and one that has kept Bart in business for a very long time. After one particularly fraught episode, Danny's potential is spotted by ...
Unleashed (DVD): You Basically Turned A Man Into A Dog (1085 words)
by Andy.mack - written on 25.04.06 (Very useful, 110 readings)
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Despite my liking for Steven Seagal action films I'm not what you would class as a huge fan of martial arts films. When I seen that Morgan Freeman was starring alongside Jet Li in his latest Kung Fu film I was intrigued as to the resulting film. I never had Freeman down as a Kung Fu film actor and likewise I hardly expected Li to be in the kind of films that Freeman and Bob Hoskins normally star. In this Luc Besson penned film however all three actors have been cobbled together in the unlikely location of Glasgow. Whether or not the resulting film would actually be any good would be revealed to me over the next hour and a half. Jet Li stars as Danny a young ...
