Reviews of The Condemned

Hilarious OTT action.

Posted : 2 months ago on 8 August 2008 11:46 (A review of The Condemned)

The premise for The Condemned is simple, it's a Battle Royale rip off. That is to say, a bunch of people are stranded on a desert island and they have to kill each other until only one survivor remains. Instead of school children, The Condemned sets up an island full of convicts on death row. Thankfully, the protagonist (WWE hero Stone Cold Steve Austin) was wrongly imprisoned, so it's OK for us to sympathise with him.

The show is broadcast live, illegally, on the internet and the psychotic director aims to hit a record number of online viewers. He has the archetypal megalomaniac personality and serves only to provide a detestable villain for Stone Cold to hunt down in his spare time. The fact that he is broadcasting live opens up a pointless sub-plot whereby the FBI attempt to crack down on his position, though their investigation seems to just dissolve and end half way through the film.

The rest of the story is filled with hilarious action scenes, with all your favourite rent-a-villains squaring off (unsuccessfully) against Stone Cold. Some of the battles are drastically over the top and at other times, quite brutal. Stone Cold eventually prevails, despite seemingly losing the competition, though he only exacts revenge on the director once Vinnie Jones has mercilessly gunned down the entire crew involved in the production of the sick game. Just about every cliché in the book is ticked off as the WWE continue with their tradition of completely overdoing their explosions and fumbling any emotional aspects of their lead characters' persona.

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WWE finally have a great movie

Posted : 6 months, 3 weeks ago on 24 March 2008 11:50 (A review of The Condemned)

Finally this movie made it to the UK on DVD never even came to the cinema here at all which pi**ed me off sorry for my swearing. This movie was great the death scenes were awesome some were a little to sick.
Stone Cold is fantastic for the part and Vinnie Jones is an evil SOB check out the movie and watch tons of people die.
Entertaining great acting your getting it right here from this movie.

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The Condemned review

Posted : 8 months ago on 13 February 2008 08:51 (A review of The Condemned)

I thought this film was extremely entertaining, and was never boring. It does not have the most in depth plot, but it doesn't have to. The action was great, and the fighting scenes, were highly enjoyable.

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Condemned

Posted : 11 months, 1 week ago on 7 November 2007 04:49 (A review of The Condemned)

Great entertaining action.

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The Condemned review

Posted : 1 year, 1 month ago on 3 September 2007 09:31 (A review of The Condemned)

If the only reason you're going to watch this is for some violent action, then good! :) You'll enjoy the movie quite a bit as there's plenty of it, including your standard-issue corny tough guy lines. Good stuff along the lines, and the movie would have been much better had it just stuck to that. Instead, it took this incredibly ironic route to preaching against violence and the apathy with which we, as viewers, subscribe to these things. What an odd way to say violence is bad and we should be ashamed, by showing us an hour and half of people getting the snot beat out of them and blown to bits. It just comes off looking as silly. Other than that, it's good ol' action flick.

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