DANNY THE DOG (aka Unleashed)

It's good. That's about all anyone wants to know: is it KISS OF THE DRAGON again? Is it ROMEO IS BLEEDING? Or is it an actual, real life good movie?

Let me be the one who says it: it's a good movie. Bob Hoskins is terrific, but not very original. Morgan Freeman needs to do something new or retire. But Jet Li actually turns in a performance and it carries the movie.

The action is very Hong Kong in that combatants exchange multiple blows in each shot, rather than things getting chopped and spliced and CGI-ed every which way. There's problems aplenty, and a great "This is my happening and it freaks me out!" moment in an underground gladiator club, but overall this is one of the best action movies to hit the screen in a long time.