Unleashed (film)
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| Directed by | Louis Leterrier |
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Luc Besson Jet Li Steven Chasman |
| Written by | Luc Besson |
| Starring | Jet Li Morgan Freeman Bob Hoskins Kerry Condon |
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Neil Davidge Massive Attack |
| Cinematography | Pierre Morel |
| Edited by | Nicolas Trembasiewicz |
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| Distributed by | Rogue Pictures |
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102 minutes |
| Country | France United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $45 million |
| Box office | $50.9 million |
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| Soundtrack album by Massive Attack | ||||
| Released | October 11, 2004 | |||
| Genre | Trip hop | |||
| Length | 52:39 | |||
| Label | Virgin/EMI Records | |||
| Producer | Neil Davidge, Robert Del Naja, The RZA | |||
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Unleashed (also known as Danny the Dog) is a 2005 British-Frenchmartial arts action thriller film directed by Louis Leterrier, written by Luc Besson, and produced by Jet Li. It stars Li, Bob Hoskins, Morgan Freeman, and Kerry Condon. The film's setting and shooting location are Glasgow.
Bart (Bob Hoskins) is a vicious loan shark whose method of persuading men to pay him back involves Danny the Dog (Jet Li), a man with the mentality of a child and a dog. Danny is a violently skilled fighter who stops at nothing to take down his targets, but only when a metal collar around his neck is removed by Bart. Once the collar is on, Danny is a harmless, withdrawn person, with very little knowledge of how to live as a socialised person, and he is constantly bullied by his master Bart.
One day, Bart realises he can end his loan shark career by regularly attending an underground fighting tournament and registering Danny to fight. If Danny wins, Bart receives a hefty prize money. After the first fight, however, Bart gets into a mishap with another criminal and is left for dead after a violent shooting. A critically injured Danny returns to an antique warehouse for shelter, where he is found by a kind, blind piano tuner, Sam (Morgan Freeman). Danny soon finds himself with Sam and his stepdaughter Victoria (Kerry Condon) in their apartment, and he starts a new life with the benevolent family and learns to live without his collar; curiously he is drawn closer to music while spending time with Victoria. He also develops curiosity about who his mother was when he learns what a family is.
Weeks later Sam informs Danny about moving back to New York, where he and Victoria are originally from. He invites Danny, telling him they think of him as family, and Danny happily accepts. However, Danny runs into Bart’s right-hand man Lefty in the streets and is forced back to Bart, who is still alive. Bart drags Danny back to the underground arena, where a death-match is set between Danny and ruthless martial artists. Despite Danny’s pleas, Bart shoves him into the pit, where he is pummeled by four fighters. Danny eventually retaliates but refuses to kill them. Enraged by Danny’s change of character, Bart drags him back home and shuts him back to his cage. That night, however, Danny sneaks through his door and goes through photographs of Bart’s favorite prostitutes, finally finding one snapshot of who appears to be Danny’s own mother. He interrogates Bart, who tells him that she was simply a prostitute who is long gone. He angrily promises to make Danny repay him for the money he had lost earlier that evening.
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