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04/23/09
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
This is why wrestlers wrestle and actors act.
09/21/07
The Condemned attempts to redeem itself with some late-inning moralizing that only cheapens the proceedings; if you're going to brandish as many guns as The Condemned does, at least stick to 'em in the end.
04/27/07
If there were any justice, a print of this film would be shipped, sight unseen, to an inconspicuous island in the South Pacific and forced to fight for its survival against nine other nasty, insulting torture flicks.
04/27/07
Condemn it to obscurity if you can.
04/27/07
This cynical action picture wants to have its cake and eat it too.
04/26/07
... dopey, ultraviolent vehicle for World Wrestling Federation star "Stone Cold" Steve Austin ...
04/30/07
I 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
if you're going to make a movie like this... do it right. Don't complicate things. Keep it simple, bloody, and stupid.
05/12/07
There are a surprising number of decent performances in this otherwise inept action slog.
04/27/07
To lecture an audience (primarily wrestling fans) that violence is w-r-o-n-g is either the most inspired button of psychosis I've come across yet during my time as a critic, or actual proof that nobody was paying attention when they made this film.
04/26/07
The most notable thing about The Condemned is how it manages to be both ridiculously dull and incredibly offensive at the same time.
04/27/07
Austin deserves better material than this. So do we.
04/26/07
Top CriticThe Condemned occupies moral ground shiftier than the San Andreas fault.
04/26/07
That the movie was produced by World Wrestling Entertainment is just another source of amusement in a film that has some pretty funny ideas about what's entertaining.
05/03/07
It has the audacity to serve as a self-righteous indictment of graphic, gratuitous violence, even though that's exactly what it's peddling.
04/25/07
Top CriticIf you thought getting voted off the island on Survivor was tough, The Condemned takes that concept as ridiculously and hideously far as can be imagined.
04/27/07
"The Condemned" poses a question about why the word "whore" is considered equal to or greater than "murderer."
04/27/07
The film presents its pulp cruelty without irony, and that lack of anesthetic distancing makes its sadism genuinely reprehensible.
04/26/07
Where's Richard Dawson when you need him?
05/30/07
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