An average movie

Honestly, I wasn't really interested in this flick but since a colleague had it on DVD, I thought I should give it try anyway. First of all, I have to say I have always been rather skeptical concerning Luc Besson. In France, he was very popular as a director following multiple successes such as 'Nikita' (which was indeed great) and 'Le Grand Bleu' and 'Léon' (which both were terribly overrated). Concerning his work as a producer/writer, the end-result was even more mitigated so I wasn't exactly thrilled by this flick at first. Eventually, it was not bad at all though. Indeed, I really liked the concept of this man-dog who protected his master. The action scenes were indeed really neat and Bob Hoskins was also really hilarious and total badass. Jet Li was pretty good as well and, as always, really impressive during the fight scenes, too bad though that Morgan Freeman was rather underused. Unfortunately, as usual with Besson, the whole thing started with an interesting concept but it was not well developed and the whole thing fell into boring sentimentality after a while. Still, it remains a well made and entertaining action flick and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you like the genre.

6/10