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A very good film with good morals.....please do watch it.
You know what sort of action sequences to expect in a Jet Li movie, and on that score "Unleashed" does not disappoint. But in coming up with this story writer Luc Besson ("La Femme Nikita") and first time director Louis Leterrier (who went on to do Besson's script for "Transporter 2") are trying to provide Li with some depth, or at least a role out of the ordinary. However, the most important things they did in putting this movie together was to get Hoskins, who does one of his patented mad dog routines, as the villain, and to get Morgan Freeman to sign up as Sam, the blind piano tuner who is the first to treat Danny the Dog like a human being. There are not many sins in a movie script or plot line that cannot be forgiven if Morgan Freeman is there to keep things together.
If you are expecting wall-to-wall action from "Unleashed," that is not the case. There is also as much piano playing as there is martial arts. But the fighting actually represents an escalation for Danny. The basic gig was that Bart loans people money and if they make the mistake of not paying him back he turns Danny loose. But now he has a found a new arena, literally, where guys fight to the death for the betting enjoyment of high rollers. Here we go from the extreme of Danny being too good in the sense that he is too skilled as a fighter and the fights should last longer than a second, to being too good because he does not want to hurt people any more so that he is given the incentive of more opponents (just to make things fair).
The results are engaging enough and I know that some of my disappointment in "Unleashed" is simply because I it had such a big buildup in mind after watching the trailer a couple of times each month (I have no idea when it went from "In Theaters Soon" to "Coming on DVD Soon" so it really does seem like it has been all year). But I have not seen that many Jet Li movies ("Ying xiong" is the only one that comes to mind and "Unleashed" is not in that league) so I am not jaded on all the punching and kicking. Still, I enjoyed the scenes between Li and both Hoskins and Freeman more than the fighting, so Besson certainly succeeded in giving Li something different to do this time around.
It's a martial art oriented movie but there are no pointless fighting scenes such as flying people or Steven Segal's style like 30 minutes fight and no scratch...
It's brilliantly directed and mixes perfectly the action and the characterization of the actors, which are delivering some great performances. There's a quite touching plot and story and I loved the way it melts in the surroundings..
The soundtrack is superb and enrichs the atmoshpere and the suspance. top marks on my board!!
Great story, a different style for Jet, Hoskins growling and gnarly. What more???
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