Tough, mean, nasty, and vicious. Rambo 4 had better come up with something to top this.
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04/26/07
The Condemned (2007)
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Reviews Counted:95
Fresh:15
Rotten:80
Average Rating:3.6/10
Consensus: The Condemned is a morally ambiguous, exceedingly violent and mostly forgettable action film.
Theatrical Release:Apr 27, 2007 Wide
Box Office: $7,327,940
Synopsis: With the stage set by a contemporary spate of films starring WWE wrestlers, including SEE NO EVIL (Glen "Kane" Jacobs) and THE MARINE (John Cena), THE CONDEMNED follows suit by building a story... [More]
Starring: Steve Austin, Vinnie Jones, Rick Hoffman, Madeline West
Director: Scott Wiper
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Reviews for The Condemned
I was looking for a movie like this. An over the top cheesy action film. What?! I said I've been seeing a lot of overly serious movies lately. What?! Its summer, I want to see stuff get blown up. What?!
05/12/07
Director Scott Wiper makes the critical mistake of copping attitude and a conscience about the inherent pitfalls of reality TV.
04/25/07
... a sloppy, indifferent action movie with a sadistic edge and a sour hypocrisy.
04/26/07
There are only so many ways to kill a person before it starts becoming utterly predictable, making things feel boring even as they become more harsh.
04/27/07
The film even attempts to make moral judgments about how watching a fight to the death is wrong, which ends up alienating anybody that sat their butt down in the theater in the first place.
03/03/08
At nearly two hours, it's nearly two hours too long.
04/26/07
The Condemned is the latest action film from director Scott Wiper. It is also a noun describing those poor viewers who end up stuck in a theater showing this film.
04/26/07
Top CriticCheesy enough to satisfy your B-movie cravings in half Grindhouse's running time.
05/03/07
Top CriticCondemn it to obscurity if you can.
04/27/07
Top CriticThe Deadliest Game has played out many times on screen, including with Arnold Schwarzenegger in a post-apocalypse The Running Man, but rarely is it aimed as squarely at the pitfalls of pop culture as in The Condemned.
04/27/07
Top CriticThe film has gross scenes of rape and torture and killing. It also has a stern lecture on the violence peddled by those who create entertainment (seriously), so you won't know whether to laugh or cry. So just don't go.
04/27/07
What happens in The Condemned is wrong on so many levels; it's sick, twisted, bloody and brutal, and yet it's compelling -- until its preposterousness busts at the seams.
04/27/07
Top CriticThe Condemned is tailor-made for those who like their violence multifaceted and their women monosyllabic.
04/27/07
Top CriticI did learn that Steve Austin can throw a cell phone-sized piece of C4 into a helicopter from a quarter mile away. Get him a uniform!
04/26/07
Most TV wrestling matches are better scripted than The Condemned.
04/27/07
Top CriticDesigned to make you cringe from its violent scenes, "The Condemned" is a paradox of a movie.Its sole purpose is to depict people killing, torturing and raping each other. And yet it contains a preachy theme about the kinds of people who would pay to watc
06/10/07
"Those of us who watch, are we the condemned?" a character asks in a laughable attempt at earnestness. In a way, we are indeed: condemned to watch 111 minutes of suck.
04/26/07
The film presents its pulp cruelty without irony, and that lack of anesthetic distancing makes its sadism genuinely reprehensible.
04/26/07
Top CriticDestined to be one of this year's first true Razzie frontrunners.
04/25/07
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