Unleashed

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Movie
German title Unleashed
Original title Danny The Dog
Country of production France , UK
original language English
Publishing year 2005
length 102 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
JMK 16
Rod
Director Louis Leterrier
script Luc Besson ,
Robert Mark Kamen
production Luc Besson,
Steve Chasman ,
Jet Li
music Neil Davidge ,
Massive Attack
camera Pierre Morel
cut Nicolas Trembasiewicz
occupation

Unleashed - Unleashed is a French-British action - drama with thriller elements of Louis Leterrier from the year 2005 . Luc Besson wrote the script together with Robert Mark Kamen . Jet Li and Morgan Freeman can be seen in the leading roles . With a budget of 45 million dollars , the film took a US $ 50.9 million around the world.

action

A young man, Danny, apparently of Chinese origin, is set on by his "owner", the unscrupulous debt collector Bart, on defaulting customers in order to achieve Bart's goals with brutality and Asian martial arts. But that only happens when Bart removes the collar and thereby "unleashes" him. When the opponents are defeated, Bart puts the collar back on him. So he is again piously lamb and then brought to his neglected cellar shed. This illustrates the dog-like dependence of the taciturn Danny on his "owner" Bart.

In the course of the action, which takes place in the Scottish city ​​of Glasgow, it turns out that the criminal took the young man with him as a child after he murdered his mother in an argument. How Danny comes to his extraordinary fighting skills, the film leaves more or less in the dark. In the course of the plot, Bart says he invested a lot of money in Danny and an old photo shows Bart and Danny standing in front of a locker with boxing gloves hanging from it, suggesting that his uncle Bart trained Danny from an early age has let.

During one of these assignments, the obstinate and withdrawn Danny met the blind piano tuner Sam, who devoted himself to Danny's hidden interest in pianos with humor and openness. After the conversation, the two separate again. A short time later, Bart and his people, including Danny, are attacked in the car. Bart is allegedly killed and Danny injured. Since he doesn't know where to go, he takes refuge in the only person he knows outside: Sam. Sam and his 17-year-old stepdaughter Victoria become friends with Danny, they host him and do not ask questions about his very strange unworldly behavior. Victoria is a talented pianist, and her playing brings back Danny's lost childhood memories: how his mother hid him in the closet while she was a casual prostitute, how he watched his mother's murder, how he was grabbed and taken away by the murderer (Bart) .

It is later revealed that Bart survived the attack. Danny is tracked down and brought back by one of Bart's henchmen, but does not want to go back to his old life, determined by violence and brutal exhibition fights, and flees back to Sam and Victoria.

When Bart goes to Sam and Victoria's apartment with a multitude of thugs to get Danny back, Danny defends himself and defeats everyone in long fighting scenes - also to protect his new family - until he finally turns to Bart, his killer Mother, can avenge. At first it looks as if he is going to kill him, but then, through Sam's intercession, he recovers and decides in favor of a life far away from violence, in which art and especially music play important roles instead.

Trivia

The film includes the voice actors Klaus Sonnenschein as Bob Hoskins and Jürgen Kluckert as Morgan Freeman .

Klaus Sonnenschein can be heard in many films as the dubbing voice of Morgan Freeman, including in the films Sieben and The Dark Knight . On the other hand, he was dubbed in other films such as Outbreak - Silent Killer or Robin Hood - King of Thieves by Jürgen Kluckert.

That is why the decision was apparently made to let Klaus Sonnenschein synchronize Bob Hoskins, as he had previously been synchronized most frequently by him.

criticism

"Soulless and unimaginative between brutal film and Mélo tragedy, film with implausible characters, fragmentary plot and insubstantial dialogues."

"An action fairy tale from the house of Luc Besson, [...] an at times uncompromising, somewhat self-indulgent [...] but skilfully staged violent ballad with fantastic fight scenes and wonderful actors."

- Manifest - the film magazine

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Release certificate for Unleashed - Unleashed . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , March 2005 (PDF; test number: 101 993 K).
  2. Age rating for Unleashed - Unleashed . Youth Media Commission .
  3. Unleashed. In: Box Office Mojo . Amazon.com , accessed May 14, 2016 .