Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

This movie is a favorite of mine! This has to be one of the most creative and emotional movies I have ever seen ever! Jet Li is so great in this movie1 You really feel for his character and you want him to get out this terrible, terrible situation that he's in!! I love the message of this movie about hope and family and how no matter what you go through in life that you will overcome. The action and fighting in this movie is so great as well!!! The enemy in this movie is great as well because you hate this guy and you want him to get seriously, seriously hurt. The supporting roles in this movie are awesome as well and you can tell that they really care for Jet Li as well.

Unleashed is a hokey but fun action film with a script that is rather barking mad just as is its depiction of Glasgow with cockney gangsters, blind American musicians and a Chinese guy treated like a dog.Jet Li is Danny who really is raised like an attack dog, with a collar and sleeps in a cage. His master is a sadistic gangster played by Bob Hoskins who sets him loose on people who he wants dispatching.Chance leads him to the kindness of strangers as Danny encounters Sam (Morgan Freeman) a blind pianist and his ward Victoria. For the first time he encounters beauty, music and something like a family.However he has to choose when Hoskins turns up whether he wants to go back to his old ways and death fights or whether to go for a better life and he also gets a chance of avenging his mother's death.The film might sound daft but it has a starry cast with Hoskins hamming it up as the gangster, an unusual setting of Glasgow with not many Scots and Li showing of his mean martial arts skills.

Danny has lived his whole life without any sort of normal human education, with the mind and personality of a young child, with only one lesson taught, how to fight. Treated like a dog by his owner Bart, which includes having to wear a collar, Danny has been raised to help Bart extort people, and later ends up in fight clubs, where he earns lots of money for Bart. After a car accident that lands Bart in a coma, Danny meets a kind blind piano tuner, who uses music to teach Danny some things about the world and about being human...Seeing that this is coming from Europacorp, and is written by one time genius Besson, you'd be forgiven if you shuddered a little with the thought of Bad CGI, pantomime villains, and an over the top sheen to the finished product.But wow,Mathis is the closest thing to Leon Besson has written in years, and you'd be surprised that it's not a full on action movie as the posters and quotes depict it to be.Yes, its action packed, and fans of Li won't be disappointed, but the best parts of the film are with him and his new family, and learning/realising that life finds a way, and it's not all cages and fighting.But what this film has done has given Li the chance to something that his other Hollywood vehicles gave him little chance of doing, doing some actual acting.He's brilliant as Danny, all innocent one moment, and then a brutal killing machine the next. And not just that, his ways inject a subtle amount of humour to the whole proceedings.Add the fact that you have two prolific actors playing their preferred parts, Gangster and Mentor respectfully, Unleashed is a brilliant movie, and maybe overlooked because of incorrect marketing.Its a touching movie, caring as much about characterisation and narrative, as it does about fight choreography....

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.