The Condemned Release
Date:
April 27, 2007 Studio: Lionsgate Director: Scott Wiper
Screenwriter: Scott Wiper, Rob Hedden, Andrew Hedden Starring: Steve Austin, Vinnie Jones, Robert Mammone, Victoria
Mussett, Rick Hoffman, Christopher Baker, Samantha Healy, Madeline West, Luke
Pegler Genre: Action, Thriller MPAA Rating: R (for pervasive strong brutal violence, and for language) Official Website: WatchThemDieLive.com
Plot Summary: An adrenalin-charged action
thriller, "The Condemned" tells the story of Joe Conrad (Stone Cold Steve
Austin), who is awaiting the death penalty in a corrupt Central American prison.
He is "purchased" by a wealthy television producer and taken to a desolate
island where he must fight to the death against nine other condemned killers
from all corners of the world, with freedom going to the sole survivor.
EN 5 Second Review:
Sick, sick concept, seems like something we would think
up.
Flaws,
double standards, strange detours and all, this is still the most
entertaining WWE release to date Luke Thompson: LA Weekly
It’s no surprise that lost in all the movie’s moralizing
about the dangers of violent entertainment is any commentary on the
morality of the death penalty itself — other than when Breckel says that
at least his way will allow one of the 10 to live...more
Despite
a slick production and good actors, The Condemned is
a real stinker Michael Wilmington: Chicago
Tribune
Imagine a "Survivor"-style reality TV show where the
contestants are condemned murderers who get to kill each
other on camera--and where the winner is the last killer
left alive. Overlay that with a premise that reviles the
fictional entrepreneur who thought it up--its greed-crazed
villain, Ian Breckel (Robert Mammone)--as a cad who deserves
to be bashed and killed on camera himself...more
Release
Date:
April 27, 2007
EN 5 Second Review:
Sick, sick concept, seems like something we would think
up.
Despite
a slick production and good actors, The Condemned is
a real stinker