We watched Unleashed tonight. I thoroughly enjoyed it. The trailers for this movie would have you believe it’s a mindless action movie full of Martial Arts mayhem. Entertainment-lite. Pleasingly, it’s not. It’s quite a serious film revolving around Danny (Jet Li), known to his master as Danny the Dog. He’s literally been kept since childhood as a dog. In a cage. With a collar. Occasionally he’s unleashed to attack and kill at his masters orders. This results in sporadic Martial Arts scenes. However the movie is actually about Danny growing as a person, leaving this life behind and starting over with the help of a Sam (Morgan Freeman) a blind piano tuner. His previous master being none to happy.

What surprised me was that it’s set in Glasgow. Everyone in the movie bar Morgan Freeman and Jet Li have English accents, which is strange. The opening scene is in the Argyle Arcade. There’s a scene in the Botanic Gardens. You’ll spot the SECC and the Clydeside Expressway. There’s even a few scenes filmed 5 mins from my house, at the local Broomhill shops. It’s strange to watch a movie that’s set where you live. Especially strange when even the local shop-keeper is English.

Well worth the rental