Production Year: 2005 - Action/Adventure - Director: Louis Leterrier - Original Language: English - Classification: 18 years and over - Starring:Michael Webber, Jaclyn Lee, Morgan Freeman, Jet Li, Bob Hoskins, Vincent Regan, Kerry Condon, Tamer Hassan, Carole-Ann Wilson, Michael Jenn, Dyann Brown, Condemned more
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 ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 ...
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Advantages: An excellent idea and extremely well pulled off Disadvantages: None
Another cracking Jet Li performance. I'm sorry but a lot of my friends do not like Jet Li and I personally think that he is fantastic especially when his predecessor was Bruce Lee. Hard footsteps to follow. Jet teamed up with Morgan Freeman and Bob Hoskins in this intense action thriller.
I must start by saying that I have never ever seen any of this directors movies but now that I have seen this one I will definitely be looking out for some more ...
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Advantages: cinderella story where cinders is a human slave and the fairygodmother is morgan freeman Disadvantages: implausibility of plot - human slave saved by a piano tuner
The plot has a touch of the ridiculous to it and is entirely unbelievable. This isn't a socially aware glance at human trafficking, it is a very unusual fairytale of a man who is is used as a human slave and is saved to go and play the piano and overcome his traumas by the saintlike freeman who takes him in for free to rescue him for his living hell as a slave.
The only thing he can do sucessfully is fight to protect his boss, a hard hearted gangster ...
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Advantages: Actors, good action scenes Disadvantages: Not many
...Morgan Freeman and Bob Hoskins, Unleashed is the story of a Glasgow gangster, Bart (Hoskins), who raised orphan Danny (Li) to help him collect debt, dispose of rivals and is then forced to take part in an underground fight network to make Bart more money. In a chance meeting, Danny finds a friend in Sam (Freeman) who takes Danny in and teaches him about life outside of fighting.
The fight scenes in the film are very well done and are sometimes ...
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