Unleashed (2005) Critic Reviews
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Based upon 13 Critic Reviews- Highest Rated
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Doing nothing special, Freeman manages to make the picture seem wiser, funnier, and more eloquent than it is.Read the full review
Ingenious in its construction.Read the full review
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.Read the full review
Includes a few scenes of impressively choreographed mayhem, but they're all but buried in Freeman and Condon's mystical grandpa and weirdo teeny bopper routines.Read the full review
The film contains enough quiet, reflective moments for us to become aware how preposterous the central conceit is, and that keeps us at arm's length.Read the full review
Li is action poetry in motion. Damn them for spoiling our popcorn fun with salty tear-jerking.Read the full review
When Danny takes off his collar for the last time, Besson's plan becomes clear: You may have paid for an hour and a half of escapist entertainment, but he just provided something much better.Read the full review
An action picture with the emotional simplicity of a bedtime story, painted in the grimy colors of the London underworld.Read the full review
The infinitely silly, unconscionably entertaining action film Unleashed earns most of its juice from the martial-arts star Jet Li.Read the full review
Besson doesn't need dialogue to convey his worlds' nuances, because there are none, especially in Unleashed, which achieves such a sustained pitch of hysteria that it makes past masters of melodrama like Douglas Sirk, John Woo, and Sam Fuller look positively austere by comparison.Read the full review
