Unleashed (DVD) > Reviews

Advantages: Unusual combination of things
Disadvantages: Dull at times, Jet Li can't handle the material

...comes off, the Dog is Unleashed and the rest is fairly inevitable. It's a grim world. Full of violence, swearing, unhappiness and brutality, Danny's only glimmers of humanity are the smiling teddy bear that peers down onto him and the colourful A-Z book, where he gets to stare longingly at the P for Piano and L for Love pages. We don't even know whether he can talk. Nobody talks to him, you see. Orders are barked, criticisms are hollered and insults ... Read review

Advantages: An excellent cast and thrilling Script
Disadvantages: It's not been made with a single Genre in mind, Dircetion can be a tad scetchy

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 ... Read review

Advantages: Great action scenes. Great direction. The cast are all on top form.
Disadvantages: Not as emotionally involving as it likes to think it is. Depressed me...

...know.. UNLEASHED was originally titled DANNY THE DOG, a name that refers to the main character (Li) and how he has been brought up as an animal, taught to obey his owner Bart (Bob Hoskins) and kill on command when the collar around his neck is removed. The title was probably changed because most people would hear the title and instantly think kids movie, yet regardless of which one you prefer, both describe the movie efficiently enough (with unleashed ... Read review