Cheesy enough to satisfy your B-movie cravings in half Grindhouse's running time.
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05/03/07
The Condemned (2007)
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Reviews Counted:27
Fresh:3
Rotten:24
Average Rating:3.2/10
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
Top CriticThis is a fast-paced, well-made piece of garbage.
04/30/07
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
Top CriticWhile rather preposterously hypocritical in its moral pretensions, it nevertheless comes through in the no-holds-barred, body-slam department.
04/27/07
Top CriticYou have to love an anti-violence movie that has as its slogan, "10 people will fight. 9 people will die. You get to watch." Hypocrisy in and of itself isn't amusing, but when it's on this grand a scale it becomes hilarious.
04/27/07
Top CriticWhen it isn't depicting brutal deaths, the film condemns audiences for flocking to see lurid entertainment. If director Scott Wiper is trying to make a statement, it gets lost in a mirror maze of hypocrisy and self-loathing.
04/27/07
Top CriticThe Condemned is tailor-made for those who like their violence multifaceted and their women monosyllabic.
04/27/07
Top CriticThe Condemned, directed by Scott Wiper (appropriate last name), is a bad rip-off of the 2000 Japanese sensation Battle Royale and the 1932 U.S. classic The Most Dangerous Game.
04/27/07
Top CriticIt's not only morally bankrupt but, between the ludicrous script and Z-level acting, scrapes the bottom of the entertainment barrel, too.
04/27/07
Top CriticA zillionaire collects 10 hard cases from death rows around the world (how about that, even Running Man rip-offs are being outsourced).
04/27/07
Top CriticCondemn it to obscurity if you can.
04/27/07
Top CriticMost TV wrestling matches are better scripted than The Condemned.
04/27/07
Top CriticThe 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
Top CriticThe Condemned would be a lot more fun if director and co-writer Scott Wiper had approached it with humor. Instead, he delivers this nonsense with a straight face.
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 CriticWhat 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 CriticNobody rooting for the movie career of "Stone Cold" Steve Austin , the big, swaggering professional wrestler, wants to hear that his debut vehicle, The Condemned, is execrable. So those people will have to stop reading, because it is.
04/27/07
Top CriticAustin deserves better material than this. So do we.
04/26/07
Top CriticThe film presents its pulp cruelty without irony, and that lack of anesthetic distancing makes its sadism genuinely reprehensible.
04/26/07
Top CriticThis cynical action picture wants to have its cake and eat it too.
04/26/07
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