Brent's AV Club

Synopsis: A man raised into behaving like a dog, escapes from his captor to start a new life, who seeks to reclaim him because of his unnatural martial arts skills that are triggered when unleashed.

My Thoughts: Holy Hell, I wanted to gouge my eyes out with a meat hook and stick dynamite in my hears so I wouldn't have to watch or hear anymore of this pathetic piece of crap. Needless to say, I hated this movie. It's quite possibly the worst movie that I have ever seen. I would have stopped watching halfway through, but I chugged along for the purpose of reviewing it.

It's a 100 minute movie. 15 minutes are spent fighting, the rest are spent "searching for himself". Jet Li is a friggen idiot and because of this movie I will never watch another movie that he's in. He co-produced it.

The storyline is he was raised by this man named Bart. He was kept in a cell with a collar. Bart would do business with scum and if they didn't pay him, he would take off Danny's (Jet Li) collar to "unleash" him. He would then kill everyone except for his group. Cool.

But then he escaped and runs into Morgan Freeman who is tuning pianos in an antique shop. Morgan brings him into his home and teaches him about life. Not exactly what I want to see in a martial arts flick. And this lasts for a good hour before he fights another person. It's ridiculous.

My last complaint is the woman in this movie. She is terrible and should quit acting. Firstly, she's about 35 and was playing an 18 year old college freshman. Secondly, she was the most annoying girl you will ever meet. Thirdly, for reasons that had -5% to do with the plot/storyline, she had braces. She got them removed and they showed a closeup of her teeth.. Yeah, they're crooked and yellow so the braces didn't work. Where was the "stunt" double?

The only good part is the ending, which still sucked. And all of a sudden Morgan Freemans character changed on a dime. He went from speaking like an old wise man to a young black thug, it was completely out of character and made me hate it even more.

Rating: This gets my highest rating ever, 43 pretzels! Nope. It gets a half because some of the few fight scenes are ok.



Closing Touch: Do yourself a favor and never watch/rent/buy this movie. Never. Ever. Seriously, never. Just go to a zoo, break into the elephant cage and lay down next to the elephant and hope he steps on your private parts. It would be less painful then sitting through this 100 minute long hunk of crap.