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Friday, January 27, 2012

Unleashed (2005)


A kung fu directed by Louis Leterrier, starring and produced my Jet Li, also starring Morgan Freeman.
A man works for a crime boss as his hired muscle. When the man is wearing his collar, he is docile and semi-retarded. Once the collar comes off, he turns into a kung fu fighting machine and attacks mercilessly. While on a job, this man meets a piano tuner and they immediately become friends. The next day, the car that he is riding in with his boss is attacked and he escapes to find the piano tuner who welcomes him into his life. Life with the piano tuner is peaceful and the man forgets fighting. While out shopping the man is abducted by an old business partner and forced back into a world of violence.
The plot and characters were good and (as always with Jet Li) the kung fu was good. I liked the contrast of life as fight/kill animal vs. serene life with Morgan Freeman and his adopted daughter. The style and production value were "new movie too perfect" which I didn't like. The camera-work during the fight scenes was the main offender. It doesn't have to be stationary like '70s and '80s fu, but if it's moving too much I can't appreciate the fu correctly. I'm rating this adequate because the good outweighed the bad by a bit.

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