Kim Gentes

Junk, except for the amazing violence

Excellent fight scenes; content warnings- excessive violence and language, and some nudity.

A young man raised to kill like an animal. His "owner" even has him on a collar. Jet Li plays a man of incredible killing ability with a purposefully underdeveloped child's mind. He kills on command. If the movie would have stayed with this shallow, but believable (ok, acceptable) premise, it would have been just what everyone expected. However, when Morgan Freeman plays a blind piano tuner who tries to help Li grow up into some small normalicy, and we see Li's character being changed by the power of classical music and a young girl's affections, things go from one ridiculous out-of-context scene to another. The only "good" thing is that the storyline returns to enough violence and blood bath that you can forget that this is simply a wanna-be Disney feel-good plot dressed up with martial arts. Worth seeing for the amazingly gritty and mindless violence, but pretty dumb beyond that. A sad use of Morgan Freeman's considerable acting presence.