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高利贷商人巴特（Bob Hoskins 饰）在丹尼（李连杰 饰）四岁时将他收留，从此用训练猛兽的方式让丹尼成为自己忠实的“狼犬”。巴特日常的工作是带领自己的手下与丹尼四处收账，如有任何人胆敢暴力反抗，巴特就放开丹尼颈上的项圈——那是进攻的信号，让后者用蛮横凶残的招式击溃对方。每次任务结束，丹尼都被送回阴暗的地下铁笼。
 
某次打斗中，丹尼偶遇盲调音师山姆（Morgan Freeman 饰），并为钢琴所深深吸引以致忘记了巴特的任务。盛怒的巴特将丹尼送上以死亡为终结的地下拳场，赚取了更多的利润，在离开拳场的路上巴特一伙遭仇家埋伏，丹尼幸免于难，被山姆一家收留。在山姆家里丹尼体味到缺失的亲情，逐渐找回了自身的人性一面，并开始学习弹奏钢琴。巴特等人经过治疗后痊愈，再次将丹尼拉回到拳场，然而丹尼已不再愿意杀人，无意中又发现了当年自己母亲遇害的真相，丹尼与巴特一伙的决战在所难免……
 
by David Jeffries
 
Interesting and pleasant, but the soundtrack to Louis Leterrier's Danny the Dog will throw longtime Massive Attack fans for a loop. The band's trademark deep sound is untraceable for the most part. It's probably a testament to how hard they stuck to the soundtracking rules, but this program music is rather run-of-the-mill, especially when compared to Massive Attack's proper albums, which -- to be fair -- would overtake most filmmaker's visuals. Harpsichords play over neo-noir beats and guitars echo forever as tension builds, and while the band's keen sense of sonic structure is intact, they're layering things much less than usual here and traveling some previously explored territory. Tracks like "Everything About You Is New" with its reverberating piano, and the faux rocking "The Dog Obeys" are so undistinguished you look have to look twice at the cover to make sure Massive is behind this. The Coil-esque "P Is for Piano" and the funky-fun "One Thought at a Time" almost make it worth it for everyone, but only the hardcore fans are going to get much out of the rest. They can pick away at the recordings and try to figure out who did what while everyone else waits for the next real album.