Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

ThrillMessage There are better movies of two hours length. I loved the actress'performance.

Brainsbell The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

Raymond Sierra The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

g-bodyl Unleashed proves to the world that Jet Li is not only a martial arts star, but has the power to be a dramatic actor. As a result, he makes one of the best films of his career. This film is quite violent thanks to all the fighting, but the story has emotional power and surprisingly will invoke emotion in you if you like this film. I like how they took a classic animal tale but changed the animal part to human. It's inhumane, but a very powerful take on this old tale.Louis Leterrier's film is about a Chinese immigrant named Danny who was taken in by a London gangster at a very young age. The gangster treats Danny as a dog and he is trained to fight illegal fights for money. But after years of abuse, he finally escapes. He ends up living with a kind piano tuner. But things go awry when Danny's past begins to catch up with him.The acting is very good. I already mentioned Jet Li and how this is the best film of his career. But glory must also go out to Bob Hoskins and Morgan Freeman. Hoskins, usually the good guy, uses his angry scowl to be effectively scary as the gangster. Freeman as usual delivers a top-notch performance as the blind piano tuner.Overall, this is an excellent film that has loads of martial arts as well as some involving dramatic scenes. The choreography of the fights is brilliantly staged as usual in Jet Li's films. This is the best work he has done in English-speaking films as lead actor. I rate this film 9/10.

adi_2002 Danny (Jet Li) is a fighter who lost his mother when he was a child and is now in the care of a mobster who takes care of him gives him food and a place to sit but has a habit by getting used as the dog. He brings money to others who were borrowed from him and did not return the money and Danny has the responsibility to deal with them by beating them and sometimes kill. One day when his master Bart is an antique to recover a sum of money, here Danny meets Sam an old man who has lost his sight and with it he discovers a passion of his, namely that likes to play the piano. In another day when they are in the car on their way to recover some debts they have an accident and are attacked and killed, but Danny manages to escape and is picked up by Sam and takes him home to take care of him. He has a stepdaughter and asks Danny to take her from school and bring her home safely. All three begin to live together but for Danny is harder because he doesn't know how to use a fork or a spoon and neither knows the meaning of certain words and sometimes it is hard for him even to talk. One day when he gets back from the store he meets up with one of the guys boss and finds out that he is not dead and that he wants to go back and so he returns to resume old habits but to his surprise, he tells that he doesn't wants to be the one that was before and now wants to become a normal person. He realizes that someone get shoved in his head all of this especially when he asks of the past and about his mother. So after getting rid of his hand he get's back at Sam's home but not passing long until Bart and his men find where he is.It is a film about the power of trying to discover the past and know that everything you know about your family is a lie. The film has action sequences with beats and Jet Li is one of the best actors in this type of martial arts films, also has some funny moments, when he learns to eat an ice-cream cornet and swallows an entire cup in a single sip, some piano music, the humor of gangsters, but also some less pleasant and exactly how to turn it on in an animal and treat him like one, to put it to sleep in a cage to talk exactly like a dog and put the collar that only when you give him the order he can attack. For me this was the only weak point of the film but the rest is OK.

wes-connors In Glasgow, martial arts fighter Jet Li (as Danny) has been raised doggie-style by gangster Bob Hoskins (as Bart). When he has his collar on, Mr. Li is fairly docile - but 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 (as Victoria Mills)...Freeman and Ms. Condon teach Li how to play the piano and be nice. At first, she has a scary metal smile, but Ms. Condon becomes kissable sweet 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 be 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 (2/2/05) Louis Leterrier ~ Jet Li, Morgan Freeman, Bob Hoskins, Kerry Condon

Angelus2 Danny has spent his entire life in a cage, the only time he leaves is when his services are called upon by his boss. Danny is very good at one particular thing....fighting. But, Danny escapes one day and finds a family and relinquishes violence...however his old family arrive to take him back at any cost...Now Danny must apply everything he has ever learnt to protect the ones he loves.I am not a big Jet Li fan, more of a Donnie Yen fanatic and Jet Li's style has never connected with me, until I watched Unleashed. Unleashed combines great story-telling, with wonderful characters and sublime fight scenes in between and with actors such as Morgan Freeman and Bob Hoskins supporting Jet Li, the movie does not disappoint.The fight scenes are just brilliant, I could talk forever about them. The camera-work could be better, but Jet Li's speed perhaps makes it harder for anyone to follow. Overall this could be classified as a Kung-Fu movie, but its a drama at its core.