Danny the Dog (2005)

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But when Danny has a chance encounter with soft-spoken blind piano tuner Sam (Morgan Freeman), he senses true kindness and compassion for the first time and experiences the transforming power of music. When a sudden gangland coup separates Danny from Bart and his mob, Danny is at last away from the underworld. He takes refuge with Sam and his spunky teenaged stepdaughter Victoria (Kerry Condon). Sam and Victoria open their home and hearts to Danny, who begins to envision a new future for himself. However, the mob will not give up its prize pupil so easily, and Danny must soon fight again, and fight back, to protect his new family and bury his troubled

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Unfortunately, Unleashed's unevenness becomes its undoing. The film contains enough quiet, reflective moments for us to become aware how preposterous the central conceit is, and that keeps us at arm's length. For a movie that strives to be in-your-face, that's too far away. 

This is a story that could have made a laughable movie. That it works is because of the performances of Jet Li and Bob Hoskins, who plays his master. 

--Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun-Times)

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Li is action poetry in motion. Damn them for spoiling our popcorn fun with salty tear-jerking. 

--Peter Travers (Rolling Stone)

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Unleashed has managed to find the equilibrium that makes martial arts films jolly good entertainment. It takes its rather ridiculous premise and runs with it, neither looking back nor half-assing its efforts. Is this enough to make a truly great film? Nah. But for once, this ride is worth your money.

--Phillip Stephens

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At least it has a bad guy worth pounding, thanks to Hoskins; his performance alone may be worth a look. But rest of Unleashed never quite manages to back him up, and even popcorn fun like this needs a little more weight in its corner. C

--Rob Vaux (Flipsidemovies.com)

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Jet Li has finally made a decent English-language film, and it's about time. 

--Michael W. Phillips, Jr.

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Plain and simple, Unleashed is a big-screen blood sport that disingenuously tosses feel-good family values into the mix. 

--Susan Tavernetti

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Underlighting actions scenes might make sense in hiding a specific performer’s limitations, but not when you have a performer of Li’s obvious capabilities and experience. 

--Mel Valentin (eFilmCritic.com)

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The movie is an effective political polemic without any reference to current events: It says the world cannot run exclusively on power and money, not just because that is wrong but because human nature will always gravitate toward the intangibles - culture, kindness, connection, Mozart.

--Jami Bernard (New York Daily News)

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...with “Unleashed” we just have to throw too much I consider logical out the window. Every story needs to have some kernel of believability to them, and that is what is missing in “Unleashed.”

--Jim Pappas

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There's something endearing about a movie that can be this gruesome and brutal and yet have a centre so thoroughly sweet. And as we discover, sweet is good.

--Rich Cline

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'UNLEASHED," a preposterous mix of sentiment and brutality that casts martial-arts star Jet Li as a music-loving killing machine, turns out to be his most entertaining movie in quite some time. 

--Lou Lumenick (New York Post)

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Unleashed suffers from a surfeit of sentimentality at times (blame Besson for that), but it’s Li’s first major Western role of any depth and he acquits himself admirably as both mad dog and melancholy master. 

--Marc Savlov (Austin Chronicle)

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Strangely thoughtful and pleasingly absurd in its escapist ultra-violence, Unleashed is a dazzling little drama that gives a passionate kick to the surging sensibilities.

--Frank Ochieng

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It is grandiosely over-directed, but done with such rococo verve that the scenes often wind up playing fairly well on the screen. Leterrier must have decided that if he were going to be flamboyant, he should go all the way.

--Daniel Neman

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Written by

Luc Besson The Transporter, Kiss of the Dragon, Transporter 2

Cast

Jet Li Hero, Lethal Weapon 4, Romeo Must Die Morgan Freeman The Shawshank Redemption, Se7en, Batman Begins Kerry Condon Ned Kelly, Intermission, How Harry Became a Tree Vincent Regan Troy, Black Knight, Ordinary Decent Criminal Dylan Brown Tamer Hassan Layer Cake, The Football Factory, 7 Seconds Michael Jenn Quills, Maurice, Another Country [more]

As someone who was not appreciating the sloppy vicious sections, I caught myself wondering if the equally hackneyed happy parts were made deliberately icky so we'd be relieved when Danny's life goes awry again.  --Ed Blank So I always have to ask more questions than I'd like to: Is "Unleashed" a good film? Is it trash well done? Is it inventive enough to deserve our serious attention? Well, I believe it's all of those things, which is pretty good, when you think about it. --Robert Glatzer The film has flashbacks of the boy and his mother and they are very effective this is a well made movie and the fight scenes are well done, although a couple looks cartoonish.  --Clyde Ayles At the very least, the idea of Unleashed is unusual enough to earn praise in its own right. B+ --Alysa Salzberg (TheCinemaSource) Had Besson and Leterrier been confident enough in the genuinely potent drama to reel in a few preposterous elements, "Unleashed" (which goes by the much better title of "Danny the Dog" overseas) might have been one of the best martial arts movies yet made in English. But while it isn't perfect, the few unfortunate nods to convention are certainly forgivable when the rest of the picture stands uncommonly above the genre norm.  --Rob Blackwelder

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