Unleashed (Danny the Dog)
17,038
Action. Thriller
This is the story of Danny (Jet Li), a slave who 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 learned: how to fight. Treated like a dog by his owner/boss, Bart (Bob Hoskins) which includes having to wear a collar, Danny has been raised to be a lethal fighting machine who fights in illegal gladiator-style fight clubs, where he earns lots of money ... [+]
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United States | Boston Globe | "Doing nothing special, Freeman manages to make the picture seem wiser, funnier, and more eloquent than it is." | NEU |
United States | Entertainment Weekly | "Bounding out of the gate like a greyhound, 'Unleashed' needs only its first 30 seconds or so to elevate itself well above the average action potboiler" | POS |
United Kingdom | Empire | "A promising idea that never develops beyond that" | NEU |
United States | The New York Times | The infinitely silly, unconscionably entertaining action film Unleashed earns most of its juice from the martial-arts star Jet Li" | POS |
United States | Chicago Tribune | "'Unleashed' is like an old dog: No new tricks" | NEU |
United States | The Hollywood Reporter | "An action picture with the emotional simplicity of a bedtime story" | POS |
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