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Jet Li'due south latest martial arts epic is quite an unusual motion picture, with an unwieldy premise that feels like three entirely different kinds of films all mixed together rather randomly. First of all in that location are the gladiator-way fighting set-pieces, in which Li typically battles opponents, sometimes in a band; these extraordinarily violent moments offering all the action a kung fu fan could wish for. Secondly, at that place's a gangsterish sub-plot, in which 21st century Glasgow becomes a seedy London of the '70s, as Bob Hoskins and his cronies go around torturing and crippling various adversaries. Finally, there'southward the human drama, in which Li becomes office of a family consisting of a bullheaded Morgan Freeman and his niece. The elements are disparate, but the final upshot is an interesting moving-picture show.
New director Louis Leterrier, who has proved his worth with this and TRANSPORTER ii, delivers the activeness with aplomb and Yuen Woo Ping's choreography also helps loads; these fights are fast, furious and exceptionally difficult-hitting, with lots of broken bones and really crucial battles. The loonshit fight with a pacifist Danny and the battle with the bald assassin are particularly worthy moments, some of the best I've seen, and I can't await to watch them again.
The human being side of the story is likewise well handled, rather better than it should be, and Freeman turns the minor role of the piano tuner into something special and moving, still human at the same time. Condon is sweet equally the daughter who brings out Li'southward humanity, and the pair share some touching moments. Non so with Bob Hoskins, who chews the scenery equally the spectacularly unpleasant mob boss; Hoskins is on top course whether he's raging in anger or telling one of his anecdotes. I approximate I'm non the merely 1 wondering what Hoskins and Freeman are doing in an action B-flick.
Li himself is skilful, although I found him more than sympathetic in Buss OF THE DRAGON; he'south said he'southward giving up kung fu and becoming a 'serious' actor, but I'm not totally convinced that he's adept enough to do that. Martial arts-wise, though, Li is spectacular, a real force of nature who tears upwardly the screen time after time, bringing new levels of entertainment to the viewer. A couple of excellent car crashes add to the action quotient and the outcome is a watchable picture that should satisfy well-nigh fans who can handle the violence.
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Good Jet Li action and dandy Danny the Dog idea
Bart (Bob Hoskins) is a vicious loan shark. He has trained Danny (Jet Li) as his personal attack dog. When people don't pay, he takes off Danny'southward collar which sends him into attack mode. Danny is befriended by blind piano tuner Sam (Morgan Freeman). When someone pump bullets into Bart's car, Danny escapes and finds refuge with Sam and his step-daughter Victoria (Kerry Condon). Danny learns to exist human from them just Bart comes back into his life.
I love the idea of Danny the dog and his neckband. There are lots of groovy Jet Li fight activity. He does well enough with the acting. It helps that his graphic symbol is withal learning to speak. I actually would adopt he speaks less in this movie. Also I'm non sure if they are trying to make Victoria the romantic companion. At 18, her graphic symbol is a little young. Information technology would have been meliorate if she's in her 20s. It's a pretty good action movie with an intriguing premise.
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Attack Canis familiaris
Unleashed is a hokey but fun activeness film with a script that is rather barking mad just as is its depiction of Glasgow with cockney gangsters, blind American musicians and a Chinese guy treated like a dog.
Jet Li is Danny who really is raised similar an assault dog, with a collar and sleeps in a muzzle. His master is a sadistic gangster played past Bob Hoskins who sets him loose on people who he wants dispatching.
Chance leads him to the kindness of strangers equally Danny encounters Sam (Morgan Freeman) a blind pianist and his ward Victoria. For the first time he encounters beauty, music and something similar a family.
However he has to choose when Hoskins turns up whether he wants to go back to his onetime ways and decease fights or whether to go for a amend life and he also gets a gamble of avenging his mother's death.
The motion-picture show might audio daft but it has a starry cast with Hoskins hamming information technology upwardly equally the gangster, an unusual setting of Glasgow with non many Scots and Li showing of his mean martial arts skills.
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Music Saved His Life
In Glasgow, Danny (Jet Li) is a young specialist in marital arts raised like a domestic dog by his owner, the gangster and collector Bart (Bob Hoskins). When Bart unleashes his collar, Danny behaves similar a wild animate being, savagely hurting and killing people as commanded past Bart. Afterwards an accident, the wounded Danny is lodged by the blind tuner of pianoforte Sam (Morgan Freeman) and his stepdaughter Victoria (Kerry Condon). They welcome him in the breast of their family, humanizing Danny, who feels attracted by music. Just his past haunts him.
I borrowed this DVD from a colleague not expecting to see a skillful movie, but only martial arts fights in a stupid plot... simply I was absolutely incorrect! "Danny the Dog" is a dramatic story, with an excellent construction of a character, from a savage creature to a kind human being. Jet Li has certainly his best operation in the function of Danny, who will certainly shake the emotions of the viewer and make him or her recollect virtually how many people, including children, are badly treated around the world, and what club can expect from them. The optimistic conclusion gives united states of america promise that some mean solar day this situation may be fixed with honey, nobility and care. Bob Hoskins and Morgan Freeman are fantastic, as usual, and the unknown Kerry Condon is lovely playing the sweet Victoria. I encounter many movies, simply "Danny the Dog" was probably the best surprise I have had this year. I do not give a ten considering of the exaggerated determination. My vote is nine.
Title (Brazil): "Cão de Briga" ("Fight Dog")
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It surprised me by really working as a film
Since childhood Danny has belonged to Glasgow gangster Bart. Bart has been a poor father to him and has raised him as an animate being – even then far as making him clothing a collar. Over the years he has trained Danny upward to be a fantastic fighter who volition assault when his collar is taken off, making him the perfect weapon in the globe of protection racketeering and extortion. However a chance encounter with blind pianoforte tuner Sam exposes Danny to a world beyond the violence and he escapes at the adjacent opportunity to be taken in past the kindness of Sam and Victoria. As he learns a whole new life he becomes function of the family unit, but his starting time family unit have not given upwardly on finding him.
Fix in a Glasgow where nobody has a Scottish accent the plot for this picture show just sounds like it simply shouldn't piece of work – by rights it should exist laughed out of the cinema before it fifty-fifty gets going. And so information technology was strange then that I found myself actually into the story and enjoying the sentimental side of the narrative almost as much equally the activeness scenes. I cannot really explain how it works merely the story does engage and the characters don't seem silly at all; nor does it e'er totally fall into mushy sentiment which again surprised me. Despite being set in the world of illegal death matches (a sport that would surely struggle to draw in new members) the activity engages besides, providing lots of OTT moves and excitement. It doesn't really thing that it is a bit featherbrained – it yet works.
The cast are probably the biggest unmarried reason that information technology does manage to come off. Li non only delivers on the action equally one would expect but he likewise does a surprisingly good chore with the grapheme of Danny. He is as convincing when fighting as he is when coming to learn of the dazzler of music. Freeman is classy plenty to exist able to make more than of his role than the mushy one-time man that he conspicuously could have been – he is engaging and warm and he has a good chemical science with Li; as well Condon works well with her grapheme despite being overshadowed somewhat by her co-stars. Hoskins takes his Expert Friday character and turns the volume up to xi for a performance that not only chews the scenery merely as well serves it up with plenty of actress ham; he seems to see how light-headed the whole affair is on newspaper and just decided to go for it on screen.
Overall this is improve than it sounds. The plot and characters shouldn't piece of work but somehow they do – the action is strong plenty to satisfy genre fans and the good cast help to foreclose information technology all falling into pointless mush in the connecting narrative. Certainly worth a look if you are a genre fan or but looking for something different on a Fri night.
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Dog Primary
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Jet Li tried to brand an action movie with a big centre/weight on the drama part. And so any of you who might expect activeness scenes non-stop will be disappointed. Only and then again, the activity scenes, that are shot for this moving picture are very skillful. Especially a toilet scene, is really great! Morgan Freeman is brought in for emotional weight and to carry the drama. He does a good job, although ane must admit, that it doesn't work out 100%. All the same I give them credit for trying, to bring something new to the (action) tabular array. And when you lot have Morgan Freeman playing a major office in your movie, you can't really go incorrect. And so while this film is a little flake to long, it does take some good moments in information technology
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A Brutal-Yet-Touching Film
For a martial arts pic, "Unleashed" was above average considering information technology had some eye and soul to it.....not only people beating the crap out of one another for two straight hours.
Yet, be wary of those who claim this isn't an activity film. That's not true: in that location is a lot of activity, quite a flake of brutality and profanity, by and large by Bob Hoskins' character "Bart" in this pic. Hoskins plays profane, nasty slave-possessor who has locked up and trained "Danny" (Jet Li) to exist the ultimate fighting auto. One time Danny is "unleashed" (literally) he's a killer and helps the gangster Bart in his criminal work.
Then, in a moment of farther greed, Hoskins agrees to enter his man in a decease match with a lot of money at stake. That friction match turns out to exist a farce with Danny winning in a matter of seconds. The other promoter wants a rematch, and with more entertainment. In the meantime, withal, Danny escapes his captors and winds up at the business firm of an older bullheaded American, "Sam," played by Morgan Freeman. He and his 18-year-old daughter "Natalie" (Kelly Condon) befriend young Danny, slowly bringing him out of his "animal" state. Everyone discovers Danny has some very human characteristics and is basically a dainty, gentle guy. The family helps uncover that through music (piano playing, to exist exact). These are all touching scenes.
Simply and so - and this is almost a platitude in these kind of films - the bad guy comes back, snatches him away and his former bad life comes back....except Danny is a changed man. How he can exit of this latest predicament and what happens to this new "adopted" family, takes up the balance of the story. That last part has the same thing: ultra-violent and touching scenes.
Jet Li does an excellent job in here, not only displaying his astonishing physical talents just besides showing us he has warmth in his face up and heart.
Overall: a roughshod, still touching motion picture: an odd combination.
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Breathtaking and fierce fights forth with an enjoyable story
The moving-picture show concerns virtually Danny(an incredible Jet Li) a young human being who lives similar a slave . He is treated like a dog past his proprietary Bart(a magnificent villain Bob Hoskins)a nasty mobster from Glascow who raised him since kid like a vicious animal . When Bart unleashes his collar Danny is behaving like a rabid dog and starts hit and knocking people practicing his natural talent for martial arts.His amazing slickness united to a risk sense converted him in a tournaments champion.Later a car blow is executed past an contrary gangster(a tough Vincent Regan) and Danny flees and shelters at home of a blind tuner of piano named Sam(as always an splendid Morgan Freeman) and his stepdaughter(a mannerly Kerry Condon).Danny is haunted by the musical sounds which remember him his anterior life.
The film gets frenetic action, impressive fights with bound and leaps and no stunts but the same actors are the fighters.The struggles are well staged with spectacular choreography in charge of the specialist Woo Ping Yuen(Kill Beak and Matrix).Only not only fights but the picture has an interesting story(well written by Luc Besson) where a trigger-happy Danny is attracted for a familiar feeling .In spite of the crude violence the moving-picture show has its agreeable moments here and in that location narrated with ductility and delicacy and developed with not bad sense of fairness and sensitivity.The music with a bit of become past Massive assault.The motion picture is produced by the French producer Pierre Spengler with a long career and by the same Jet Li(Cradle ii,Hero,The one,Osculation of dragon) .The movement picture show is well directed past Louis Leterrier(Tansporteur I and II). The movie will like to Jet Li fans and martial arts enthusiastic. Rating Amend than average, well worth watching.
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Good story from Besson, skilful acting from Jet Li.
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Not simply another martial arts film, in fact, the actual fighting scenes are somewhat secondary to the story line. As the picture starts nosotros come across that Danny (Jet Li) is endemic by crime boss Bart (Bob Hoskins) much like i would ain a dog. In fact, Danny is forced to habiliment a metal and leather collar, and when he does then is docile. Simply when Bart needs someone, or many ones, beat upwardly, he removes Danny's collar, unleashing him in more than ane style. This is the only life Danny knows, and nosotros wonder how he got that way.
Enter two normal people into Danny's life. One day, while waiting for Bart's order to knock downwards a door, Danny gets attracted to the sound of a piano, an old one in a warehouse, and beingness tuned by blind pianoforte tuner Sam (Morgan Freeman, in a practiced role). And then the dynamic changes after this encounter, and the movie is about whether Danny can be transformed.
As I was watching it, I was reminded of both "Leon" and "La Femme Nikita", in its mood. I only constitute out later that it is a Luc Besson moving-picture show. A adept i, with a good story, although lots of rough language.
SPOILERS. After an incident where Danny was desperately wounded, he was taken in past Sam and his stepdaughter (mom had died) Victoria (Irish Kerry Condon, using an American accent that sounded like no actual American accent), an xviii-twelvemonth-erstwhile pianoforte student in Glasgow for the instruction. Over again Danny was attracted to the piano music. Turns out that Danny'southward mom had been a pianist and Bart had shot and killed her when Danny was a minor boy. Realizing that Danny had forcefulness and skills, was raised as Bart'southward personal fighting domestic dog. When Sam and Victoria helped him uncover all this, Danny was on his manner to a possible normal life, but non before several more fights and virtually death escapes.
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a trivial hit for Besson and Li
Commonly I don't watch much of Jet Li's works (not confronting what he does, merely non crazy about his movies), just Unleashed, aka Danny the Dog, intrigued me for its premise, its writer/producer (who could've directed information technology had he had the guts), and the surprise casting of Morgan Freeman. Li plays Danny, a quasi wild child grown up and "tamed" past an electronic collar, controlled by gangster Bart (Bob Hoskins), who uses Danny to crush the hell out of those who wont pay upward, and for possible time to come endeavors in fight-to-the-expiry matches in underground arenas. Merely a sudden car accident sets Danny on his ain- and into the care and council of an old, bullheaded pianoforte tuner (Freeman), and his step-daughter, who teaches Danny the joys of music. Merely there'southward more, it seems, than he even knows well-nigh his past.
Aside from the given fight sequences, which were much better than I expected as not seeming too heavily stylized with choreography (relieve for the large death-fight in the arena between Danny and the opponents), at that place'southward a strong base of operations of story and characters that helps this pulpy stuff stay respectable. Besson's sensibility leans more towards making it half a bad-ass story of a "canis familiaris" breaking off from his former ass of an possessor (Hoskins is one-note but fun in the part of the conniving Bart), and one-half a kind of sensitive re-emerging into club story where Danny finds his humanity and how to reconcile his dark past. The director Louis Letterier balances out the expected genre elements and the aspects with Freeman and his step daughter for it to be an emotional trip. It might non be a Leon: The Professional person for Besson as writer/producer in terms of doing what he did with that, just Letterier presents an heady, touching moving-picture show that tin can appease those looking for a solid Li pic, and for those who might give a double-take at Morgan Freeman playing a bullheaded piano tuner (equally usual, he hits it out of the park).
Not cracking, but not at all disappointment, information technology's a minor sleeper amid the annals of Besson's career. And at that place'south some pretty sweet classical music thrown in too.
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Don't Shoot Me, I'm Simply the Piano Player
In Glasgow, martial arts fighter Jet Li (as Danny) has been raised doggie-manner by gangster Bob Hoskins (as Bart). When he has his collar on, Mr. Li is fairly docile - simply when Mr. Hoskins takes the collar off, Li crunches bones and pounds heads. Looking a little like Ray Charles with a mustache, friendly Morgan Freeman (as Sam) arrives on the scene. A blind piano tuner, Mr. Freeman sees Li for the gentle soul that he really is, deep down. Ahh... Freeman has a step-daughter Kerry Condon (every bit Victoria Mills)...
Freeman and Ms. Condon teach Li how to play the pianoforte and exist dainty. At first, she has a scary metal smile, only Ms. Condon becomes kissable sugariness after the "hardware" is removed and she shows Li how to lick vanilla ice cream. All goes well until Hoskins re-enters the picture. He wants Li to return to fighting for revenge and profit, and won't take "no" for an answer. An interesting debate can exist made about how the film character rejects being paid to fight violently, when Li acting violent is what viewers pay to see.
***** Danny the Dog/ Unleashed (ii/2/05) Louis Leterrier ~ Jet Li, Morgan Freeman, Bob Hoskins, Kerry Condon
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Pianoforte
I'm rooting for Luc Besson. We have a dearth of competent, modern French filmmakers. And Jeunet is pretty uneven. Besson isn't all empty style, even though some projects are, like the terminal 1. And he had a distracting obsession with a pretty girl.
At present, he's back abode in familiar territory: the battle betwixt good and evil where each is personified (and innocence takes the form of a young girl). You might get distracted by the drama in which the poles of these 2 extremes are stretched.
Hoskins plays a highly abstruse and theatrical evil man in an evil context. Freeman's normal lazy avuncular treacle is for in one case only correct as an equally cool "adept" human being who tunes the dogboy. But all that's merely context for what Besson's coiffure does with jet Li, who pretends to exist more than twenty years younger than he is.
Some viewers may appreciate the drama Besson draws between the way these ii poles influence Danny. But the actual drama is actually never shown, but inferred. No matter for me, because what I came for was the way Besson's notion of photographic camera movement changes the perspective on Li's fights.
I suppose the fights themselves are rather ordinary equally these things go. Simply the way the camera engages is rather extraordinary. This is where all the investment in an angry, energetic style pays off. Information technology is not art yet, similar Lee's "Tiger," where the camera shows the fighters just gets swept upwardly in their masters.
The i blot is how clumsily he handles the primary metaphor. He wants the states to think of Danny as a shackled dog. Merely he confuses leash and collar, and the condition of being constrained. Inexplicably, the almost constrained is when he is to the lowest degree constrained. I think few in the audience will even notice this dissonance because we accept the merest sketch of such metaphors and make full them out ourselves as if they fabricated sense.
The aforementioned with the music, There really are piano pieces that would have made sense in the story. But it is enough for nigh everyone that something pretty appear to fill that space.
Though Freeman's hackneyed routine is proper hither, there are still plenty of uncreative visions. Do we actually demand yet another movie where the bad guy'southward henchman falls on the bad guy'southward auto?
Ted's Evaluation -- two of three: Has some interesting elements.
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Jet Li showcase in Besson scripted berserker.
Jet Li stars as Danny, a human dog trained to kill once his collar has been taken off by his thug gangster boss Bart {Bob Hoskins}. When an attempt on Bart'due south life lets him escape, Danny is plant and taken in by a blind piano turner named Sam {Morgan Freeman} and his teenage stepdaughter Victoria {Kerry Condon}. Just just equally Danny starts to find a real life, and piece together his babyhood, Bart and his thug army are back on his tail.
Essential for Jet Li fans, but probably non for every activeness movie fan. Danny The Domestic dog {AKA Unleashed} is an interesting alloy of outright violence and quiet comedy led domesticity. Bookended by excellently choreographed fights {take a bow Yuen Wo-ping}, information technology's with the overtly sentimental middle section that the film will lose some of its viewers. Information technology will either serve as a touching portrait as Danny searches for his human worth {Li showing he has more than only kick assery in his acting armoury}, or, have you quickly rummaging around for some former Van Damme DVD to play instead. Given the bonkers nature of the story, the surprise is that Unleashed is pretty tight, with no extraneous characters or subplots to bog it down. Information technology'due south merely a four graphic symbol piece, with Freeman & Hoskins playing out as good and evil surrogate father figures. With the acting of a very high standard. Especially Hoskins, who is revelling in being a comedic, yet violent, scum-bag. It's too beautifully filmed with a sort of metal sheen by Pierre Morel and the Neil Davidge/Massive Assault musical input is at ane with the mood of the piece.
From smack downs in toilet cubicles to tender piano playing moments, Danny The Domestic dog is certainly no ordinary action movie. It could go either style if you haven't seen it, merely give it a chance and you but might be as entertained as I was. Yes, even with that heart section. vii/ten
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Doesn't Quite Work
This is no Transporter (2002) or Kiss of the Dragon (2001), 2 Movies from the Writer/Director Team of Luc Besson and Louis Leterrier. Besson seems Ameliorate when He is in the Managing director'south Chair, His Writer Only Attempts are a Mixed Bag.
Jet Li tries but just does non have the Acting Ability to Pull Off this Multiple Personality Outing and is Hamstrung by a most Sappy Story that is only Moderately Successful. The Comic-Volume Elements at Work here Attain an Over-the-Superlative Amusement that is Drowned in an Overly Sentimental Moving picture that is an Attempt to Soften the Hard-Edged Martial Arts Entries with Sharply Choreographed Fights with a Teary and Heavy Handed Family Conceit.
Information technology all Somewhat Works but not Enough to brand this a Breakthrough, try something a Bit Different, Motion-picture show. Predictably, the Action is Tight, but the Melodrama Muddles and some Things are only too Overwrought to be Palatable for Fans. Viewers who want more from a Martial Arts Movie than just Chop-Suey may be more Forgiving.
In the End information technology is a Misfire and is Recommended, but just be Prepared for some pretty Tough-to-Handle, and Misplaced Tugs at the Heartstrings.
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Apart from the action scenes I thought information technology was crap.
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Danny the Domestic dog is set in Glasgow in England where brutal gangster & loan shark Bart (Bob Hoskins) has raised Danny (producer Jet Li) since childhood, he has raised Danny to be his personal weapon. While kept on a leash Danny is calm & sedate but once Bart takes the charter off Danny turns into an unstoppable killing machine who does exactly what Bart tells him, the threat of taking Danny's leash off keeps the people who owe him coin in bank check. One twenty-four hours Danny manages to escape from Bart's influence & a kindly old piano tuner named Sam (Morgan Freeman) takes him in & teaches him humanity, teaches him to care, to beloved & to appreciate life for what information technology is including how to spot a ripe melon. Danny completely changes from a sadistic uncaring killer to a pretty nice guy but his past before long catches up with him every bit Bart wants his canis familiaris back at any toll...
Widely known under the alternative title of Unleashed this American, French & English co-production was directed by Louis Leterrier & has a really oddball concept that I plant more than than a bit bizarre & rather unnerving. The idea of someone kept literally like a dog on a leash for the personal utilise of a gangster merely seemed preposterous in the extreme, why had Danny never tried to escape before? As well the notion that a man would accept a consummate stranger into his home, feed him, look subsequently him & basically trust him out of the goodness of his centre is hard to swallow & living here in the UK I can tell you I don't know anyone who would practice such a stupid thing. I am non being funny only Danny could have been anybody & done anything to him & his daughter, people just aren't that trusting. Then there's the erratic pace, the opening 20 odd minutes is quite practiced but and so the adjacent forty about put me to sleep every bit Sam teaches Danny to be a homo beingness, to feel & find his humanity. Again I just found this middle office of the film an absolute bore & I started to regularly check my lookout to see how much longer this was going to last. The final xxx odd minutes does pick upwardly again though with the reemergence of Bart & some dainty fights & action although overall I can't say I liked anything about this odd & oft extremely boring & tiresome niggling moving-picture show apart from the fights & action. The ending didn't work for me either, why would Bart want Danny to impale him? Everything in the film up to that point suggested Bart was out for himself & was just ever interested in saving himself & making money for himself and then why of a sudden decide to go against every motivation & all the development his character had been given until that signal?
The film is clearly influenced past the likes of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) with it's London East Cease style gangsters although nowhere nearly as practiced, there's a bit of The Matrix (1999) in here with information technology's CGI assisted gravity & physic defying fights & stunts & there'due south even a bit of romance & cocky discovery Pretty Woman (1990) style. I have already said it & I will say it over again the only aspect of Danny the Dog that I liked were the absurd fight scenes, even though Jet Li feels like a Jackie Chan imitator he knows his stuff & has some good moves. The fights are visually impressive with all sorts of slow motion, tracking camera shots & snazzy angles. The violence is of the fighting variety, there'due south non much bodily claret or gore & not that many character'due south dice either. In that location'due south a fair corporeality of bad language equally well but no nudity.
The supposed $45,000,000 upkeep sounds like a fortune, I wouldn't accept said Danny the Dog had that much coin spent on it having just seen information technology a few hours ago. I tin can't actually see where the money went. Filmed on location here in the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland & in studios in French republic. The interim is OK, Morgan Freeman & Bob Hoskins both put in fine performances while Li is silent for the majority of the film which suits his acting skills (or lack of them) quite well.
Danny the Domestic dog is a really strange film, I just found the whole plot rather stupid & bizarre & couldn't get into information technology at all. The talky drama bits are crap while the fights & deportment scenes are good, unfortunately you can't have one without the other. I seriously dubiety I would e'er want to see it again.
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Easily ane of the best films of the year.
No its not perfect just the emotional punch is awesome.
Jet Li is Danny, Bob Hoskins "domestic dog". He'south a trained killer who shows no mercy in one case the neckband comes off. He'southward emotionally notwithstanding a kid and barely speaks. Through circumstance he's thrown together with Morgan Freeman and his step daughter. Over the grade of weeks Danny becomes human. The three become a family. Things are fine until Hoskins reappears and wants Danny back.
In that location's more to it than that but its enough to go on.
Wow and wow.And WOW.
This is going to annoy many people who want a straight action film. This is not that sort of film.This is what is called a graphic symbol driven activeness film, or a drama with violence since the fights are secondary to the humans, something virtually action directors seem to forget these days. The fights are at the first and the end and its all drama for most of it. All tension and emotion (and there is a great deal of both) come up out of the characters and what you experience nigh them. You experience and are moved because you care. Even the violence changes as Danny changes. Amazing.
Jet Li is fantastic as Danny and if you only know him from activity films you lot're in for a care for. He breaks your heart. His costars are equally wonderful.
See this picture show. Remove any expectations, but see this moving-picture show.
I can't say plenty skillful almost information technology.
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Unleashed not a baseless story of violence
A White Man obsessed with white suits decides to accept his own personal human dog. Bob Hoskins (almost notably from "Who Framed Roger Rabbit") plays a mob boss past the proper noun of Bart. Everyone knows that the task of a mob boss is very demanding; you have to constantly harass people to give upwardly their hard earned money to make certain you alive comfortably, you occasionally accept to beat people up or even impale people... it's not easy. Well, mob bosses are always looking for the latest tool to help them exercise their job better, and Bart found Danny (Jet Li), an Asian male child that perfected kung fu. Bart raised Danny much similar an animal, in that he kept him in a cage, fed him gruel, had him on a leash, and trained him to attack.
One solar day Danny got loose and some other family took him in. Bart could accept put fliers up everywhere like most people do when they lose their domestic dog, but he decided to retrieve Danny the mob boss mode: brute forcefulness. The story was a lot better and a lot deeper than a mere mob boss with an assail human. When Danny was found past another family, Danny experienced life as a person. Not only did he experience life as a person, he was welcomed and embraced, and he finally had a true family where beloved and caring was the norm.
I was actually quite surprised to find out that the story had layers and that it wasn't just a "violence for the sake of violence" type movie. Equally the movie went on you learned more near Danny and his now deceased female parent. You lot got to come across Danny struggle with his vicious brute side versus his afterwards adult civilized and human self. The film was a skillful mix of fighting with good choreography and a decent story.
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Getting better and ameliorate
The best movie out this weekend will not sell the nigh tickets. JLo and the render of Jane Fonda in Monster-in-Law will probably accept that championship, or Kingdom of Sky volition echo as Number One.
I am biased; I will freely admit information technology. I am a Jet Li fan, non because of the martial fine art, simply considering I have seen potential in him since Romeo Must Die, where he played a great office with Aaliyah.
The French title Danny the Canis familiaris aptly describes the violence in the film. He is a trained attack dog that his vicious owner sics on those who anger him. He knows nil else and it is only when he is unleashed by music and dear that his truthful self comes out. If you are looking for marital arts, you will not find it hither. He is a Doberman who attacks without grace. Sure, if you similar violence, so you lot will go enough. But if yous want martial art, go encounter Hero, his greatest film.
Yes, his English is limited, but so was the Governator'south when he started out. He will improve and plough into a cracking actor. You can see that potential growing here.
I highly recommend this 1.
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Ridicoules concept makes ridiculous picture.
It's every bit easy as 1 + 1 = 2. This movie features a ridiculous concept and therefor the movie as a whole is a ridiculous one to watch. The title "Danny the Dog" should already say enough. Beats me why these fine actors ever agreed to appear in this motion-picture show.
No, I seriously didn't hated watching this movie merely I can't actually understand either why so many people dearest this movie. Yep, well it is a different and original movie but its concept just doesn't always brand me take this movie seriously. The flick tries to blend textile arts activeness with serious drama. It could had worked out and it does work out in several other, mainly Asian, movies but I didn't found the story of this movie to exist gripping and believable and therefor it just didn't worked out for me.
Two persons are taking Danny in their home and they don't seem to find it strange at all that he doesn't speak much and doesn't know and understand much of our world. Instead of finding out what happened to him and or where he comes from and don't notify the right authorities, like any other normal person in such a situation would do, they feed him and care him and have the time to larn him things nearly everything in the world and emotions and feelings. They adopt him like a son and blood brother, even though they know nothing about him.
The movie begins fine and stylish merely as before long as the drama and serious plot line of the motion picture kicks in the movie becomes quite dreadful to watch. Afterward an hour it starts to take up pace once more and the movie begins to get better to watch again when the activeness starts to kick in over again. Louis Leterrier is obviously a capable activity managing director every bit he also showed "The Incredible Hulk". This movie was his directorial debut, after working as banana director in several big productions before. I must say that he could had done a lot worse directing wise. It'southward not the flick its style or directing fault that the picture isn't really a great or constructive 1. It the typical new French activeness and enjoyable manner of directing, which also tin be seen in for instance movies from Luc Besson, who likewise produced and wrote this movie and no doubt helped out fellow Frenchman Louis Leterrier, with who he had worked before on several occasions. You could say that its the action that still makes this motion picture good and interesting. Everything else is just apathetic.
Of grade it are also the actors that still makes this a watchable flick. Not that Jet Li is a wonderful player just Bob Hoskins and Morgan Freeman are of course e'er excellent in whatever picture. Jet Li is mostly in that location to provide the picture show with its spectacular action and he shows why he should never been given besides much lines.
A mixed bag but the movie remains more often than not watchable cheers to its action sequences from Jet Li and directing way from Louis Leterrier.
6/x
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Unbridled activity with a liberal amount of humor keeps the swelling down
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UNLEASHED (2005) *** Jet Li, Morgan Freeman, Bob Hoskins, Kerry Condon. Slam-bam action parable with Li (in arguably his best – if not well-nigh entertaining – American film) equally a weapon-on-a-tether charge of nasty, vile gangster Hoskins, who somewhen breaks costless from his captor and winds up in the hospitable arms of blind piano tuner Freeman and his pace-daughter Condon, whose love breaks him free from his Pavlovian spell of unmitigated violence. Vastly entertaining, silly and jaw-dropping exciting at the same fourth dimension with visually good Li kicking serious ass and a fluid mind-set by first-time manager Louis Leterrier's kinetic energized scope gets things going fast and furious thank you to a quick paced screenplay by filmmaker Luc Besson (appropriation liberally from his masterpiece "The Professional"). Unbridled action with a liberal amount of humor keeps the swelling down.
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Leash This Picture show.
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Unleashed (2005): Dir: Louis Leterrier / Cast: Jet Li, Morgan Freeman, Bob Hoskins, Kerry Condon, Vincent Regan: Standard action fare regarding unleashing of inner rage as well equally the releasing of it when he discovers kindness. Jet Li is fastened with a collar around his neck past an uncle who treats him as a domestic dog. The collar is unfastened when he is ordered to attack someone who owes money. When one of these encounters ends tragically he finds refuge with a blind piano tuner and his stepdaughter who show kindness. This all ends violently and so to satisfy the genre fans but much of this could have been more than it is. The flick is well directed by Louis Leterrier with terrific action and special effects to boot but the screenplay is defective. He previously made The Transporter and its sequel and this is pretty on par in terms of brainless entertainment. On the plus side this is one of Li's nearly endearing performance as a broken fighter introduced to compassion. Unfortunately solutions simply come in violence and then to free him from his nasty uncle. Bob Hoskins plays the ruthless uncle in what viewers look for an execution. Morgan Freeman plays the blind piano tuner along with Kerry Condon every bit his stepdaughter and both roles are standard and predictable seen countless times in other films. What it does contain is a message showcasing the releasing of wrong to the unleashing of correct. Score: 4 ½ / x
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I want a piano....
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Danny has lived his whole life without any sort of normal homo educational activity, with the mind and personality of a young child, with but one lesson taught, how to fight.
Treated similar a canis familiaris past his owner Bart, which includes having to clothing a collar, Danny has been raised to assist Bart extort people, and afterward ends up in fight clubs, where he earns lots of money for Bart.
Later a auto accident that lands Bart in a blackout, Danny meets a kind blind piano tuner, who uses music to teach Danny some things nigh the earth and virtually being human...
Seeing that this is coming from Europacorp, and is written past 1 fourth dimension genius Besson, you'd be forgiven if you shuddered a little with the thought of Bad CGI, pantomime villains, and an over the acme sheen to the finished product.
But wow,Mathis is the closest matter to Leon Besson has written in years, and you'd be surprised that information technology's non a full on action movie as the posters and quotes depict it to exist.
Yes, its action packed, and fans of Li won't be disappointed, but the best parts of the film are with him and his new family unit, and learning/realising that life finds a manner, and information technology'southward not all cages and fighting.
Merely what this film has washed has given Li the chance to something that his other Hollywood vehicles gave him little chance of doing, doing some actual acting.
He'due south brilliant as Danny, all innocent one moment, and then a brutal killing machine the next. And non just that, his ways inject a subtle corporeality of sense of humour to the whole proceedings.
Add together the fact that you have two prolific actors playing their preferred parts, Gangster and Mentor respectfully, Unleashed is a brilliant movie, and maybe disregarded because of incorrect marketing.
Its a touching motion picture, caring every bit much about characterisation and narrative, equally information technology does well-nigh fight choreography....
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Tin you teach an former dog new tricks?
I have been waiting for a slap-up Jet Li pic ever since he made the spring to Hoolwood, only to exist permit downward by a avalanche pf Li teaming upward with (insert generic rap star proper name here). "Buss of the Dragon", another Bussen written moving picture came closest to what I was hoping for. Only with this film about a man, Danny (Li) whose been chained up and kept as a savage pit bull would, Jet Li finally got to take it to a whole new level and show Western audiences what die-hard Li fans knew all along, that he has much interim talents to him equally well equally being astonishing at martial arts. Bob Hoskins is simply amazing every bit Bart, the mafioso type who'due south owner of Danny in the beginning, The fight scenes, though thin, are among the nearly roughshod I'v seen in an American Jet Li film. The drama is endlessly captivating and you lot feel like you connect with the characters. A great motion-picture show on all counts.
My Grade: A
DVD Extras: Cull between the Unrated or Extended versions (unrated with deleted scenes spliced in); An interview with Director Louis Leterrier; x minute 'Serve No Master' Featurette; a 12 infinitesimal & 47 second Behind the Scenes featurette;Music Videos by Massive Attack (Atta Male child) & The RZA (Unleash Me); and Trailers for "Weep Wolf" & "Carlito: Ascent to Power"
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Transcending Evil, Discovering Humanity
Luc Besson'south signature style is all over the writing of this very fine trivial film. His ability to push the buttons on the most violent screen business while gradually developing a tale of warm sentiment is well served by director Louis Leterrier and a perfect cast of actors. UNLEASHED is i of the few examples of how martial arts and bona fide drama tin be mutually supportive in creating a film that is at in one case thrillingly athletic and gently tender.
Bart (Bob Hoskins) is a brutish loan shark thug who makes his 'collections' accompanied by his 'dog' Danny (Jet Li), a silent homo Bart has raised course childhood to be a caged killer, a human with a dog neckband that when removed unleashes a ferocious animal who kills on control of his master Bart. Bart keeps him in a cage, feeds him, and uses him solely for his criminal doings. Danny unleashed is simply a Pavlovian animal and when the collar is replaced, he becomes docile with the distressing eyes of a puppy.
During a 'collection' gone bad, Danny escapes and finds shelter in an antique shop basement where he meets blind piano tuner Sam (Morgan Freeman), a gentle man who gradually introduces Danny to music, trains him equally his assistant, and introduces him to his 'family' - his step daughter Victoria (Kerry Condon). With the ii of these welcoming, tender people Danny discovers how beautiful life can be. The story from this indicate is how Danny chooses between his Pavlovian response life as a killer and the simple life of Sam and Victoria. The journeying is not without stressors and it is a difficult transition that keeps the viewer on seat's edge.
The wonder of this film lies in the extraordinary performances not usually associated with martial arts films. Jet Li does some of his finest athletic fighting on moving picture, but thankfully at the same time creates a character who is multidimensional and memorable - a very fine acting task past Li. Bob Hoskins is vivid as the despicably cruel Bart, Morgan Freeman adds a luster to his fine portrayal of blind Sam, and Kerry Condon makes Victoria zany and lovable at the same time. The action is superbly captured by cinematographer Pierre Morel with the aura of darkness in Danny's caged life serving as a perfect foil to the martial arts sequences.In short, this is a fine petty film well-nigh characters worth knowing and provides audiences with both activeness and drama of a very high level of accomplishment. Grady Harp
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Surprisingly good, and one of the best films of 2005
The best martial arts films are always the ones that deliver the fight sequences forth with an interesting story and characters, and that is exactly what Unleashed does. The fighting and the story exist in equal parts, and the film never feels like its delivering one side over another. The plotting, therefore, is extremely well done; every bit the graceful action sequences deliver the adrenaline, while the story exists to give point to the movie and go along the viewer interested. The fact that the action sequences are some of the best I've seen from recent picture palace doesn't hinder the motion-picture show at all; Jet Li's kicks, punches and head butts are all perfectly timed and realistically done - at that place's no over the top ho-hum motion or gravity defying leaps here, and because of that; massive credit has to get to the choreographers. The plot follows a loan shark named Bart, who keeps a homo locked up in his basement. The man in his basement is a trained killer, and once the loan shark removes his collar; woe betides anyone who gets on his incorrect side. This life is all the collared human being knows; simply when, by chance, he meets a bullheaded pianoforte tuner...he gets shown a new life, one that he never knew existed.
Unleashed benefits from a trio of excellent performances. Bob Hoskins stands out virtually as the inherently evil Bart; trainer and main. Bob Hoskins is a great role player who tin deliver a range of emotions - simply he's at his best when he gets to ham it upwards as the villain! Morgan Freeman, whose intrinsically good Sam plays confronting Hoskins' baddie, offsets his performance. These two characters represent two sides of the spectrum; namely, good and evil, leaving Jet Li'due south character, Danny, in the middle - drawn to the proficient, nevertheless constantly pulled towards the bad. Li's part doesn't require a smashing deal of acting ability, but Jet makes the best of his more than emotional moments. His real role in this pic, however, is in the fighting sequences; in which he is fantabulous. This man is the closest matter we have to Bruce Lee these days; and he shows why here. The sequences themselves are typically violent, and every time there's a hint of a fight well-nigh to get-go; it draws you towards the edge of your seat. The pivotal sequence, involving Jet Li fighting iv opponents in a pit is a contender for the most exciting scene of the yr. The ending is more than satisfying, and all characters are made to flourish in a way that is coinciding with their roles in the film. On the whole; this is a great picayune flick, and well worth seeing!
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