The Condemned is tailor-made for those who like their violence multifaceted and their women monosyllabic.
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04/27/07
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
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
It'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
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 Condemned" poses a question about why the word "whore" is considered equal to or greater than "murderer."
04/27/07
A 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
There are a surprising number of decent performances in this otherwise inept action slog.
04/27/07
The 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
If WWE overlord Vince McMahon can extract anything good from "The Condemned," it's that the XFL no longer is his greatest creative failure.
04/27/07
Condemn it to obscurity if you can.
04/27/07
Most TV wrestling matches are better scripted than The Condemned.
04/27/07
Top CriticIf 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
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
The 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
The 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
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
It packs enough red-hot fiery action for six movies. The fact that it makes some suprisingly ironic and pertinent points about extreme violence as entertainment gives it the kind of gravitas blood & guts films like this rarely aspire to achieve.
04/27/07
Nobody 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 CriticSmarter-than-average action movie.
04/27/07
If Rodriguez and Tarantino had been smart with Grindhouse, they would have dropped Tarantino's talky Deathproof and replaced it with The Condemned.
04/27/07
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