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"Battle Royale," if you've never seen it, is a fantastically sadistic and unapologetically brutal Japanese film from 2000 about miscreants dropped on a jungle island with orders to kill each other for a reality TV show. The Condemned is pretty much the same thing with half the satirical wit and twice the number of wrestlers.
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50The Condemned isn't post-modern junk, smirky junk, faux junk or clever junk. It's pure junk, with a certain integrity to it.
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50Flaws, double standards, strange detours and all, this is still the most entertaining WWE release to date.
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42The film keeps adding layers of superfluous nonsense to its plot until all that's left is glowering ultra-violence and a whole lot of missed opportunities.
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40While it sounds interesting on paper, the follow through is less than entertaining... unless you like unintentional humor.
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38Steve Austin is conspicuously inarticulate and uncharismatic. Former soccer lout Vinnie Jones, whom no one will ever mistake for Laurence Olivier, acts rings around him.
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38There are stretches when it becomes tedious and insufferably self important. There's even a late scene in which the movie turns preachy.
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33A sloppy, indifferent action movie with a sadistic edge and a sour hypocrisy.
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33A catastrophically messy action-movie mash-up.
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Condemned is, if nothing else, an object lesson in how to punish women for fun and profit. But it's all for a point, the filmmakers would have us believe. One suspects that's a point of sale.
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30Picture aims for nonstop thrill ride, but for all its brainless brawn, it has plenty of stops and few real thrills.
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30It's hard to imagine an audience that won't break up in laughter at this bewildering mixed message: Enjoy this movie, but you really shouldn't be watching it.
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30As an actor Austin is still a lightweight, but Rick Hoffman (Hostel) fleshes out a recognizable character.
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25A real stinker. It doesn't have the courage of its own bad taste, or that of its villain.
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25The wrestler carries himself with decency and without self-seriousness, the qualities that made Arnold Schwarzenegger a star. Austin deserves better material than this. So do we.
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25This is the worst kind of movie, one that insults its audience by purporting to condemn violence while simultaneously reveling in it.
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25It is hard to say what is more despicable about The Condemned: the overtly racist portrayal of Brekel-Goldman as Jewish-media bloodsuckers, or the film's sleazeball attempt to pass off lovingly attentive sequences of ritual torture - often scenes of incredible hulks bashing cowering women - as a critique of media violence.
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25At what point does The Condemned turn from a stupid-fun action movie into something unpleasant and hypocritical?
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20D-grade "Running Man" ripoff.
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20Tailor-made for those who like their violence multifaceted and their women monosyllabic.
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12The film is smugly hypocritical at every turn, loudly preaching the evils of sick voyeurism while encouraging its audience to cheer every gruesome death. It's not only morally bankrupt but, between the ludicrous script and Z-level acting, scrapes the bottom of the entertainment barrel, too.
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12Just watch Austin on "WrestleMania" instead, avoiding the shower this movie leaves you wanting.
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0Sickeningly violent and inane movie.
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0Wiper doesn't exploit the possibilities of his setting, so the only conflict is the fighting, the only suspense comes from waiting for the next character to pop out from behind a tree and do something possibly interesting.
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