Unleashed with Jet Li: DVD Cover

    Unleashed
    a.k.a. Danny the Dog Director: Louis Leterrier Cast: Jet Li, Morgan Freeman, Bob Hoskins, Kerry Condon

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    • DVD Release Date: 10/11/2005
    • Rating: Not Rated
    • Sales Rank: 26,353

    Viewer Rating: (6 ratings)

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    Features

    Serve No Master; The Collar Comes Off; Interview with director Louis Leterrier; Massive attack and the RZA music videos

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    Scene Index

    Disc #1 -- Unleashed
    1. Attaboy! (Main Titles) [5:36]
    2. Daily Rounds [3:37]
    3. Get 'Em! [1:58]
    4. Out of Tune [:57]
    5. Lucrative Proposition [1:08]
    6. One Lovely Day [7:14]
    7. Strange Surroundings [4:27]
    8. Opportunity to Learn [2:26]
    9. "Ripe Means Sweet" [4:29]
    10. "Sweet Is Good" [4:04]
    11. Asking Questions [5:48]
    12. Part of the Family [5:59]
    13. Look Who's Come Home [3:50]
    14. No More Killing! [4:23]
    15. Families Stick Together [4:24]
    16. Remembering the Past [4:30]
    17. No Time [2:47]
    18. You're My Dog! [:30]
    19. Saved By Music [:19]
    20. End Titles [5:33]

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    Directed by Louis Letterier, a protégé of filmmaker Luc Besson (who co-wrote and produced this movie), Unleashed uses A-list star power and stylish cinematic technique to bring class to something that might easily have been a routine martial-arts action flick. Jet Li plays Danny, adopted in childhood and trained (via cruel Pavlovian methods) to be a remorseless killing machine by gangster Bob Hoskins, who sics the mature Danny on recalcitrant debtors. When by chance Danny escapes his captor, he is taken in by blind piano tuner Morgan Freeman and his adopted daughter, played by Kerry Condon. We see Danny gradually becoming humanized as his new friends shower him with care and affection, and while this sort of acting doesn’t come easily to Li, the veteran action star holds his own in his scenes with Freeman and Condon. Although Unleashed has more heart than previous Li outings, its highlights are still bone-crunching fight scenes, in this case choreographed by the legendary Yuen Wo Ping (whose other Hollywood successes include the Matrix movies). He’s shown working with Li and various stuntmen in “Serve No Master,” a ten-minute featurette that’s the best of this disc’s many extras. Ed Hulse, Barnes & Noble

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    Great Fight Scenes & Moreby Anonymous

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    March 25, 2006: This movie blew me away! Not only is it a great action movie, it is a great example of how resiliency can be embodied in some of the most vulnerable people: children and trauma survivors. The movie showcases the use of dissociation as a defense mechanism in response to extreme cruelty with no traces of pity or self-indulgence. In my clinical experience, many trauma survivors excel in one or more domains, but continue to struggle with the past that weighs them down even as they continue the motions of living they often feel isolated from the rest of the world. Jet Li's character lives in a flat world of his own his emotions are tapped only by hearing music for the first time in years and the fleeting memories this uncovers. Jet Li's acting is sublime: he conveys the tense inner struggle and turmoil that can embody survival as well as identification with the aggressor. The conflict in a person between the identification with the aggressor as well as the fear and loss of control that often come with trauma is wordlessly played out by Jet Li's character. Morgan Freeman...no words can describe the healing influence his patience and wisdom present for Jet Li's character, who is literally so traumatized, he is speechless for most of the film. Many of Morgan Freeman's lines are interpretations of Jet Li's behavior as Jet Li's character learns the words that describe his life from the narrative Morgan Freeman's character offers, he cultivates his own vocabulary and narrative of his life. This is a very well-written movie that the director, actors and editors have translated well into film. This movie demonstrates excellence from the choreography to the nuances of acting and complicated sentiments the actors convey. I can't believe this movie didn't do better in the theaters.

    A great acting vehicle for Jet Liby Anonymous

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    October 13, 2005: I really enjoyed this film and not only for the awesome fight scenes. I was really impressed with Jet's acting abilities and one can easily imagine him studying dogs to perfect the gazes and behavior he performed in the film. Besson has always had a comic sense of action and this could have very easily become a farce about a man acting like a feral dog, but they went to great lengths to humanize Danny even before he escaped.


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