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Unleashed [HD DVD]
Starring: Christian Gazio , Bob Hoskins , Michael Jenn , Phyllida Law , and Jet Li
Director: Louis Leterrier
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: HD DVD

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ASIN: B000P0J05Q
Release Date: 2007-06-26

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Martial arts superstar Jet Li delivers a break-out performance in the gripping, action-packed story about a man raised from childhood by a ruthless crime boss (Academy Award nominee Bob Hoskins) and becomes a violent killing machine. When a blind piano tuner (Academy Award winner Morgan Freeman) takes him in, Danny (Li) tries to start a new life, but his brutal past follows him, forcing him to fight back. Featuring breath-taking fight choreography by Yuen Woo Ping (The Matrix and Kill Bill: Vols. 1 & 2).

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Unleashed
Jet Li: From Canine to Human
Great Movie
Willingly suspend your disbelief...PLEASE!
I loved this movie 5/5 stars

Unleashed (HD DVD)
Starring: Christian Gazio , Bob Hoskins , Michael Jenn , Phyllida Law , and Jet Li
Director: Louis Leterrier
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: HD DVD

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ASIN: B000G8P1XC
Release Date: 2006-08-15

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Luc Besson wrote and directed the stylish thrillers La Femme Nikita and The Professional; though he didn't direct Unleashed, the script has his trademark fusion of outrageous sentimentality and over-the-top violence. Hong Kong action superstar Jet Li (Romeo Must Die, Hero) stars as Danny, a man raised to be a brutal attack dog by a nasty gangster named Bart (Bob Hoskins, Mona Lisa)--when Bart removes Danny's collar, Danny pulverizes everyone in the room. But a chance encounter with a blind piano tuner (Morgan Freeman, Million Dollar Baby) reveals to Danny the possibility of a less brutal life, and when a retaliation attack gives him the chance to escape, he does--but Bart won't let him go that easily. The fighting in Unleashed is effectively jolting; Li and fight choreographer Yuen Wo Ping (The Matrix) have purposefully stripped away the smoothness of most movie combat (especially with a genuine martial artist like Li) with raw, unnerving results, especially when juxtaposed with the sweet and earnest scenes of Li regaining his humanity with Freeman and his step-daughter (Kerry Condon). This freewheeling cocktail of bloody noses and ice-cream cones isn't for everyone, but fans of both Besson and Li will leave satisfied. --Bret Fetzer

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Martial-arts superstar Jet Li delivers a breakout performance in the gripping, action-packed story about a man raised from childhood by a ruthless crime boss (Academy Award nominee Bob Hoskins) who becomes a violent killing machine. When a blind piano tuner (Academy Award winner Morgan Freeman) takes him in, Danny (Li) tires to start a new life, but his brutal past follows him, forcing him to fight back. Featuring breathtaking fight choreography by Yuen Wo Ping (The Matrix and Kill Bill: Vols. 1 & 2).

Customer Reviews:

Unleashed.......2007-06-10

If I had seen it at the movies I would have asked for my money back! No climax, bad storyline and acting. The initial fight was the only decent fight scene in the whole movie.

Jet Li: From Canine to Human.......2007-05-28

Jet Li's martial arts acting career has shifted from pure martial arts either as the hero or villain to roles that require him to radiate emotion in between the fight scenes. In UNLEASHED, he continues this mid-life metamorphosis as Danny, a very confused mob muscle enforcer who wears a dog collar when not carrying out his boss's lethal orders. Bob Hoskins is Bart, the evil boss whose frequent ruminations about the philosophical underpinnings of evil bring to mind a similar role from MONA LISA. Here, he takes off Danny's collar as a symbolic unleashing of the brute canine desire to rend that he is sure lies just beneath the surface. And for the first half of the film, we are as sure as Bart that Danny is exactly as Bart sees him. Danny shows no emotion as he quickly dispatches hordes of flunkies who suffer the great misfortune to be late on their mob loans. He shows even less emotion as he seems adjusted to living in the human dog cage that he calls home. But little by little, Danny begins to shed his canine surface. Indeed, for a while we are not even sure if Danny can speak. When Danny meets a blind piano tuner Sam (Morgan Freeman), we can sense that the bullying that Danny has endured at the hands of Bart will be replaced by the infinitely wiser and gentler hands of Sam, who sees in Danny a young man who can help him in that now Sam has a reason to teach the intricate art of piano tuning to a worthy student. It is when Danny escapes his collar that he becomes fully human, and when he confronts an unwilling Bart who attempts to reconnect Danny to his canine roots, we can see that Danny has made the light years long jump from unthinking dog to thinking man.

The fight scenes are of course well done and Jet Li's fans will find no fault with them. But for those recent fans who have become used to a Jet Li who can command center stage with a flick of the eye rather than a deadly kick, UNLEASHED is an action film that adds just enough human drama to showcase him as an actor who can fight rather than a fighter who can act.

Great Movie.......2007-05-13

I've always been a fan of fighting movies. I'm a guy i can't help it. This one is different. Not only does it have great action scenes, it also has some compelling drama scenes as well. Jet Li did an incredible acting job on this movie. I was amazed at how well he performed this roll and with an actor like Morgan Freeman as well this movie was bound to be great. I was really moved be the story line of this movie.

Willingly suspend your disbelief...PLEASE!.......2007-04-28

This was an interesting movie to watch because of Jet Li's amazing martial-arts skills. He truly is gifted. Unfortunately, Jet Li alone can't keep this from being unbelievable and silly. I was hoping it was going to be more along the lines of LA FEMME NIKITA and LEON: THE PROFESSIONAL, two very good movies, but I was wrong. They both had better scripts and plots that were well-developed. This movie seemed to be ad-libbed as the camera rolled. It was just too hard for me to suspend disbelief willingly. For example, at the end of the movie, after Jet Li fights a small army of goons half-destroying an aprtment building in the process while beating most of them up, a handfull of gun toting bad guys shoot hundreds of bullets through windows and doors and then vanish. Danny (Jet Li) confronts his master Bart (Bob Hoskins) and pummels him before Sam (Morgan Freeman) smashes a flower pot over Bart's head to knock him cold, preventing Danny from killing him and thereby saving Danny from reverting back to his previous trained attack-dog nature. What happened to the other members of the gang? Where were the police during the battle? Why, in the next scene, do we see Danny and Sam in tuxes at Sam's step-daughter's piano recital? Was the connecting scene left on the cutting room floor? I guess you'd have to really like martial-arts action to enjoy it. The movie just didn't work for me.

I loved this movie 5/5 stars.......2007-04-23

One of the best martial arts movie and best actors. Danny (jet li) who was adopted and raised by the ruthless mob leader bart (bob hoskins) is trained very well how to fight as an expert of martial arts and as an unbeatable weapon against barts mob of enimies with the release of dannys leash. Then a blind piano player (morgan freeman) takes danny into his life to start a new life and a new family which danny loves the most and can see what it's like to be treated like a human instead of an abused animal in slavory that makes danny a very kind person who doesn't want to hurt people anymore. I thought bob hoskins played the perfect bad guy he's one of the best actors for this movie and he's one of my favorite actors too.

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Unleashed
Starring: Christian Gazio , Bob Hoskins , Michael Jenn , Phyllida Law , and Jet Li
Director: Louis Leterrier
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
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Martial arts superstar Jet Li delivers a break-out performance in the gripping, action-packed story about a man raised from childhood by a ruthless crime boss (Academy Award nominee Bob Hoskins) and becomes a violent killing machine. When a blind piano tuner (Academy Award winner Morgan Freeman) takes him in, Danny (Li) tries to start a new life, but his brutal past follows him, forcing him to fig

ASIN: B000A2IPR8
Release Date: 2005-10-11

History Channel: Mega Movers - Massive Bridges

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History Channel: Mega Movers - Massive Bridges
Starring: Mega Movers: Massive Bridges
Manufacturer: A&E Home Video
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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Bridges move people and cargo daily, but what happens when the bridge itself needs to be moved? In this episode, we see how two very different bridges are moved--using two very different methods. In Missouri, local bridge preservationists attempt to transport a 137-ton railroad bridge right through the heart of downtown Kansas City. And in Iowa, the National Guard rallies to save a 129-year-old bridge using one of the most modern mega-moving tools available: a Chinook Helicopter. Will our Mega Movers succeed in preserving these beloved bridges for future pedestrians to use?

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Good Mystery Plot, but Poorly Filmed
The Massive was decent.
This is the movie "Murder of Murders" - English edition.
Good for your friday night collection

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Good Mystery Plot, but Poorly Filmed.......2003-01-31

The film offered a respectable mystery plot, with lots of unexpected twists, right up to the end.

However, as another reviewer has already noted, the fight scenes were filmed "off-center," clipped, or at strange camera angles, which I found for the most part distracting, removing most of the impact that these scenes might otherwise have offered. For example, it wasn't unusual to see most of the figure of one of the fighters, but perhaps only the hand or foot of his opponent, in many of the fight scenes.

I bought this film on DVD. The quality of the video and audio transfer is o.k., considering what the producers probably had to work with (without digitally re-mastering). Being a die-hard kung-fu movie fan, I will no doubt watch The Massive again, but will store it on my second or third shelf.

The Massive was decent........2001-01-18

While many of the fights were good (especially the final showdown), a lot of the fighting took place just off the screen so that it was often hard to determine what was going on. Aside from that the plot was good. The characters were interesting to say the least. All in all it was another decent kung fu movie. It was not poor by any means, but not excellent either.

This is the movie "Murder of Murders" - English edition........2000-06-19

This is the same movie as " Murder of Murders ". The original Chinese title of the movie is " The Jade Dragonfly ". Story is about six stolen jems by the famous "Jade Dragonfly". The police head who was conducting the search turns out to be the one who stole the six jems from the Jade Dragonfly. Good story and an interesting movie.

Good for your friday night collection.......2000-04-15

This movie is pretty good, the story, and the fighting. The picture is not the greatest but at least you get chapter selection. The end fight between the hero and villian is pretty good. In which you see the twisting spear of hate vs. the nine section sword! This is a must have for your Wu Tang DVD Collection.

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