Martial arts superstar Jet Li reteams with French writer-director Luc Besson (KISS OF THE DRAGON) in this psychological action film shot in Glasgow, Scotland. Li stars as Danny, a human attack dog for a powerful mobster he calls Uncle Bart (Bob Hoskins, looking resplendent in white suit after white suit). When Bart and his men go out on their collection runs, they bring Danny, who has been trained since he was a child to fight to kill. When Bart takes Danny's collar off and commands, "Get 'im," Danny goes to work, an unstoppable machine, using the only weapon he knows: his body. But when a turf war ends up in bloody carnage, Danny escapes and is taken in by a kind family consisting of blind piano tuner Sam (Morgan Freeman) and his teenage stepdaughter, Victoria (Kerry Condon). They teach Danny how to be a real person, to be able to act civilly in society. They also allow Danny to explore his love of the piano, where a specific tune haunts him, bringing up repressed memories from his long-ago past. Just when Danny thinks he has escaped from his former life, he is pulled back in, but he is no longer the trained dog Bart thinks he is. Written by Besson and directed by Louis Letterier (THE TRANSPORTER), UNLEASHED is a gripping, heart-wrenching film fueled by the music of Massive Attack and a relentless visual style. And having taken acting lessons for the first time in his career, Li more than holds his own in the presence of such masters as Hoskins and Freeman.
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Costume Designer
Olivier Beriot: Costume Designer, UNLEASHED (2005)
Director of Photography
Pierre Morel: D.O.P./director
Martial Arts Choreography
Yuen Woo-ping: HK Director/Fight Choreographer (MATRIX, CROUCHING TIGER)
Production Designer
Jacques Bufnoir: Production Designer, CIRCLE OF DECEIT (1981)
Music Performer(s)
Massive Attack: Bristol-based band
Review 1:
"The staging and editing of several fights are tops even by the standards of Yuen Wo-Ping..."
Source: USA Today
p.6E 05/13/2005
Review 2:
"Li is action poetry in motion."
Source: Rolling Stone
p.85 05/19/2005
Review 3:
"The infinitely silly, unconscionably entertaining action film UNLEASHED earns most of its juice from the martial-arts star Jet Li, the eminent martial-arts choreographer Yuen Wo Ping and the fine British actor Bob Hoskins in full terrifying lather."
Source: New York Times
p.E13 05/13/2005
Review 4:
"[H]eartfelt, heart-stopping....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."
Source: Entertainment Weekly
p.53 05/20/2005