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
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 3/4 |
There's nothing wrong with enjoying a balls to the wall guy film where muscle bound behemoths blow shit up and fight to the death... Full Review |
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3/10 |
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. Full Review |
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...Scott Wiper's hopelessly inept directorial choices - coupled with an overall vibe of ugliness - ensures that the movie ultimately fares about as well as its straight-to-video action brethren... Full Review |
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3/6 |
The Condemned sprays its fury wide: media manipulators, political opportunists and technology-pacified couch potatoes are among the collaterally damaged. Paying audiences don’t get off so easy either. Full Review |
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1.5/4 |
What a base, and baseless, film this is. Full Review |
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2/5 |
Don’t look to glean too much from it other than a few cool fight scenes and some funny one-liners. Full Review |
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2/5 |
This is why wrestlers wrestle and actors act. Full Review |
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2.5/5 |
The Condemned tries to have its cake and eat it, too, alternately between a preachy scene about the depravity of reality entertainment followed by sequences of remorseless carnage, such as when Vinnie Jones guns down a roomful of unarmed people in cold bl Full Review |
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2/4 |
Designed 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 Full Review |
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Where's Richard Dawson when you need him? Full Review |
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2.3/5 |
Attacking the intended audience is one of those things that a filmmaker just doesn't do. Jeez! Full Review |
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3/5 |
if you're going to make a movie like this... do it right. Don't complicate things. Keep it simple, bloody, and stupid. Full Review |
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B- |
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?! Full Review |
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1.5/4.0 |
If you're going to promise audiences a death match, pony up a real budget instead of padding your plot to make us feel guilty for watching it. Full Review |
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2/5 |
...a nifty vicarious wallow for the "No Fear" T-shirt crowd. Full Review |
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1.5/4 |
There were definitely some unexplored situations that would have made this film a lot more enthralling. Full Review |
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1.5/4 |
two hours of mindless violence and then have the nerve to lecture the audience on why violence is wrong. Full Review |
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B- |
Cheesy enough to satisfy your B-movie cravings in half Grindhouse's running time. Full Review |
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