Unleashed

2005 "Serve no master"
7| 1h43m| R| en
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Raised as a slave, Danny is used to fighting for his survival. In fact, his "master," Bart, thinks of him as a pet and goes as far as leashing him with a collar so they can make money in fight clubs, where Danny is the main contender. When Bart's crew is in a car accident, Danny escapes and meets a blind, kindhearted piano tuner who takes him in and uses music to free the fighter's long-buried heart.

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Laikals The greatest movie ever made..!
Skunkyrate Gripping story with well-crafted characters
Phonearl Good start, but then it gets ruined
Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.
adonis98-743-186503 A man enslaved by the mob since childhood and raised into behaving like a human attack dog escapes his captors and attempts to start a new life. Danny The Dog is no way a 7.0/10 kind of a movie it's actually way better than your average martial arts film it's thoughtful and pretty damn sad movie and the performances by Jet Li, Morgan Freeman, Kerry Condon and Bob Hoskins are truly excellent. The chemistry between Danny and Victoria feels very real and quite damn impressive for a film of this kind, Morgan Freeman's role is just fantastic as well he plays a blind man who eventually helps Danny threw music and actually the music part is without a doubt the most intelligent part of the film because Music DID save his Life and changed him to something better since he also eventually find out what happened to his mother. The fight sequences are excellent and as always Jet Li is fun to watch also Scott Adkins pops up as one of the fighters in the Arena just one year before Undisputed II: Last Man Standing (2006). The ending where Danny pictures Victoria as his mother playing piano really got me right in the feels. This is an action packed, dramatic and even funny film that has the guts to do something new with this particular genre and oh boy is it great? (A+)
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.
M MALIK unleashed or Danny the dog 2005 i have watched a different DVD its called Danny the dog same film but few differences like too many cut scenes there is a r-rated & unrated version of this film,starting jet Li,Kerry condon & Morgan freeman.Danny is a man who lives a different live then any other human his uncle(bob hoskins) is a cruel man who loves to watch people die by letting Danny loose on people when the collar on his neck gets removed. later Danny finds new people & live with them they are SAM & Victoria they have a tragic past too but soon Danny finds himself in danger again.how he escapes & fights the bad guys you will have to see the movie yourself.this is not the kind of jet Li film i was expecting as a jet Li fan i must say this is only for die hard jet Li fans only.like me i love collecting his films on DVD so its fine for me.but why jet Li do this film for money.this is one of his saddest films.& Danny is such a weird character.it could have been much better but sadly it failed.anyway my rating is 5/10 sorry but thats all i can give.