Unleashed details
| Formats: | 18 DVD, Blu-ray |
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| Starring: | Vincent Regan, Morgan Freeman, Jet Li, Jaclyn Lee, Tamer Hassan, Dyann Brown, Carole-Ann Wilson, Michael Webber, Michael Jenn, Bob Hoskins, Kerry Condon |
| Director: | Louis Leterrier |
| Genre: | Action/Adventure - Family, Martial Arts, Superheroes |
| Original title | Danny The Dog |
| Name | Discs | |
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Unleashed |
18 Feature |
DVD Information
| Run time: | 1 hour 37 minutes |
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| Rental release: | Currently unavailable |
| Main languages: | English |
| Hearing impaired subtitles: | English |
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Hilarious gem of a martial arts movie
By McClennan (424 reviews) from St Helens , 31 Aug 2005[Highly rated reviewer]
Jet Li is a boy brought up as a dog, trained to kill by some cockney gangsters operating in a cockney accented Glasgow. Sounds ludicrous, it is but man is it enjoyable. Riffing from Aliens, Clockwork Orange, Werner Herzog, in parts with some minor director showboating, it's brilliantly entertaining. With Tony Jaa getting some rave reviews for Ong-Bak it's nice to see that Jet Li's efforts in this completely absurd film come through. Surefire tongue-in-cheek mixed with great action sequences this was a real surprise with some real laugh out loud moments. Martial arts and comedy fans, check this out.- Was this review helpful to you?
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(253)The leash is off, the fury is on for both Hoskins and Li
By Imp (1 review) , 14 Oct 2012The only thing missing from this film is a credible story and to be honest the perfomances of Bob Hoskins and Jet Li as the main power characters and of Morgan Freeman as the guide to reason, certainly make up for that lack.
Danny (Jet Li) is perfectly tailored to demonstrate the horror of extreme schooling, absolute single minded obedience with no understanding of anything but the control over him
Bob Hoskins, as usual, manages to bring conviction and entertainment to a character who basically has no character. His matter of fact attitude to Danny's situation somehow adds an element of humour to the horror.
Morgan Freeman's 'blind piano tuner' along with his daughter create a believable and enjoyable softening by almost accidently leading Danny out of the dark and into a new and happy life.
All in all a good night for action fans, with enough warmth to offset the violence.- Was this review helpful to you?
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brill film
By a customer , 30 Oct 2011brill i'm not normally a fan of action films like this but you couldn't not love this film! ! !- Was this review helpful to you?
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unbilievable plot
By mrgordonguitar (1 review) from Glasgow , 07 Nov 2010Got boredd watching this film stopped it after a half hour, unbilieveable plot and circumstances thought it was rubbish, but then again martial arts is not my cup of tea- Was this review helpful to you?
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Jet Li does Shakespeare
By cptrelentless (33 reviews) from London , 24 Aug 2010Jet Li expands his dramatic range by portraying the tortured quasimodo character, bestial by nature and design. As Bob (Rab C Nesbitt) 'oskin's pitbull assassin in the mean streets of Glasgow, where the Cockney mafiosi rule this sunny city of Georgian architecture and rolling parkland with an iron fist, our hero meets a blind African American piano tuner, who regales him with tales of pianos and the Bronx. Our hero endures the agony of his soul crying out for the pianissimo, and Li's character portrayal of the _naif_ 'Danny' can begin. We spend much time exploring the flowering of Danny-Algernon, as in the womb of the surprisingly well apportioned flat of our piano tuner and pasty white piano efficianado daughter he grows to overcome his distopian past, having escaped his handlers from a machine-gunned jag. Watch the first twenty minutes and then fast forward to the last half hour. You will have missed nothing and suffered little.- Was this review helpful to you?
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One Word Summary
By a customer from Edinburgh , 23 Aug 2010For me, 'Unleashed' can be summed up in one word, and that word is BIZARRE. Everything about it is odd; a man raised as a dog somehow possesses amazing martial arts skills, which he uses at the behest of a gangster in a Glasgow which looks more like Detroit, and where everyone's a Cockney... I could go on but you probably get the idea. Coherence is not a strong factor in this film. If you're a Jet Li or a martial arts fan, you might enjoy it; otherwise, there's every chance that it will simply irritate the life out of you.- Was this review helpful to you?
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