Review of The Condemned (2007) by Lace — 23 May 2009

10 killers from around the world compete in a reality tv show, with the last man living getting their freedom. This is a complete and utter rubbish version of the exponentially better "the Running Man". Steven Williams Aka Stone Cold does the best he can do with such a hopelessly contrived and cliched charecter as his role as Jack Conrad is, but poor Steve has little to no charisma in his movie roles. And for a movie that has to rely on it's action, like this film does, it's all deathly boring, making it's nearly 2 hour running length feel like an endless eternity. The only one that saved himself some face after starring in this trainwreck is Vinnie Jones, but even he (no matter how good he was) could save the film. Of the five movies currently released by WWE films (which I'm quickly learning to avoid as much as those produced by MTV), this is without a doubt the worst. Keep in mind, they made See No Evil as well...

Region 1 DVD Extras: 2 Audio commentaries (the first with Director Scott Wiper, the second with Wiper and Stone Cold); a 6 minute making of; a short bit about Vinnie Jones doing a guest spot on WWE; a short bit of Stone Cold at Movie world in Australia; Storyboard sequences; Theatrical trailer for the film; and trailers for "See no Evil", the special edition dvd of Universal Soldier, the extended cut of The Punisher, & "War".

Reviewed by Kevin O'Keefe on IMDB.