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Unleashed, or as it was known in every country besides the United States, Danny the Dog, was one of Jet Li’s last kung fu movies and one of his best made in the English language. The film is all about the concepts of family, personal freedom and dignity, and it really completely invents its own style of martial arts from the ground up. It’s definitely worth a watch the next time you want to watch movies online and see some great chop socky action.

The movie follows Danny, Danny the Dog, a young man who has been raised since childhood as an attack dog by Uncle Bart, a low rent loan shark and gangster, played to the sleaziest extremes by Bob Hoskins. Danny and Uncle Bart, interestingly, actually feel some love for one another. It’s not a healthy relationship, but there is some love there, and it adds a layer of complexity that lends a lot of depth to what could have been a typical action flick.

The movie has a very clever gimmick, you’ll wish you’d come up with it: Danny the Dog wears a collar. When the collar is on, he’s friendly, quiet and peaceful. When the collar comes off, he’s violent and wild, attacking anyone Uncle Bart tells him to attack. This offers Bart a lot of opportunities to be menacing to his clients when he needs to intimidate them.

Danny escapes his boss and winds up in the home of a kindly old piano maintenance man played by none other than Morgan Freeman. Freeman and his daughter take it upon themselves to teach Danny what love and family are really all about, far different from the kind of family Danny had with his Uncle Bart.

There is a lot of familiar territory here, it’s an old story: A dog runs from a cruel family and winds up in the home of a kind family. However, by replacing the dog with a young man, producer Luc Besson has stumbled upon a very clever twist. This lends a lot of extra mileage to a story that could feel stale and tired in a less talented story teller’s hands.

The action in this film is really something. Danny doesn’t do kung fu, he attacks like a rabid dog. It’s more fitting to his character, of course, and it’s an incredible thing to see in action. He bites and scratches, he pulls hair, he just goes wild against his opponents, and it creates a very unique and bizarre fighting style that, of course, would probably be quite ineffective in real life, but is one of those styles like Jackie Chan’s take on drunken boxing that has a lot of personality and expresses the character better than the dialog does.

The movie is ultimately an action flick, and Jet Li beats everyone up and they all live happily ever after and so on and so forth, but there’s a surprising amount of emotional depth and complexity here, as well as some surprisingly great action scenes. Still, you could remove the action and still have a fascinating drama on your hands here.

So if you haven’t seen it yet, give it a viewing. It’s certainly one of Jet Li’s best movies to be given a wide release in the US.

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