Unleashed more unbad than I expected.

We were pretty much jonesing to see a movie this weekend, considering the week and all. So we picked the new Jet Li film. I like Jet Li, and Black Mask was amazing even though the plot didn't make any sense. ("Holy shit a bulldozer just drove through the wall! Where did that come from?") I wanted to see The One but we didn't go because everyone said it was awful. And I'm pretty sure Jet Li was in one of those Chinese movies that put me to sleep, but I don't remember which one. Because I was asleep.

Anyway, Unleashed solved the problem that all such action movies have, which is: Let's face it, there's only going to be about 15 to 20 minutes of real hardcore action in this flick. We have to fill about an hour with some other plotty stuff. What if that other stuff was actually good? And you had Bob Hoskins and Morgan Freeman doing their usual terrific jobs? What if the part that Jet plays is like when they give Arnold a script that has no sentences longer than three words and he does okay?

Well, it was good. Really good for an "action flick," and actually good as a regular old movie. I recommend it!