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Unleashed, 2005
English
France, USA, UK
Profile of Unleashed
The mood of Unleashed is exciting, rough, and suspenseful. The plot centers around a master warrior, gangsters, and being haunted by the past. It is a drama, thriller, and action movie. Stylistically, Unleashed features martial arts. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The setting is Scotland. Unleashed happens in contemporary times. It is especially suggested for a boys' night. Note that it includes nudity, profanity, and violent content.
Summary of Unleashed
Martial arts superstar Jet Li reteams with French writer-director Luc Besson (KISS OF THE DRAGON) in this psychological action film shot in Glasgow, Scotland. Li stars as Danny, a human attack dog for a powerful mobster he calls Uncle Bart (Bob Hoskins, looking resplendent in white suit after white suit). When Bart and his men go out on their collection runs, they bring Danny, who has been trained since he was a child to fight to kill. When Bart takes Danny's collar off and commands, "Get 'im," Danny goes to work, an unstoppable machine, using the only weapon he knows: his body. But when a turf war ends up in bloody carnage, Danny escapes and is taken in by a kind family consisting of blind piano tuner Sam (Morgan Freeman) and his teenage stepdaughter, Victoria (Kerry Condon). They teach Danny how to be a real person, to be able to act civilly in society. They also allow Danny to explore his love of the piano, where a specific tune haunts him, bringing up repressed memories from his long-ago past. Just when Danny thinks he has escaped from his former life, he is pulled back in, but he is no longer the trained dog Bart thinks he is. Written by Besson and directed by Louis Letterier (THE TRANSPORTER), UNLEASHED is a gripping, heart-wrenching film fueled by the music of Massive Attack and a relentless visual style. And having taken acting lessons for the first time in his career, Li more than holds his own in the presence of such masters as Hoskins and Freeman.
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| Language: | English |
| Country: | France, USA, UK |
| Release date: | 13 May 2005 |
| Runtime: | 103 min |
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The New York Times
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- by: Manohla Dargis
San Francisco Chronicle
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- by: Peter Hartlaub
