D+

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.

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03/03/08

.5/4

...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...

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11/30/07

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.

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09/22/07

1.5/4

What a base, and baseless, film this is.

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09/22/07

2/5

Don’t look to glean too much from it other than a few cool fight scenes and some funny one-liners.

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09/22/07

2/5

This is why wrestlers wrestle and actors act.

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09/21/07

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

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06/22/07

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

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06/10/07

N/A

Where's Richard Dawson when you need him?

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05/30/07

2.3/5

Attacking the intended audience is one of those things that a filmmaker just doesn't do. Jeez!

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05/14/07

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.

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05/12/07

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?!

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05/12/07

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.

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05/11/07

2/5

...a nifty vicarious wallow for the "No Fear" T-shirt crowd.

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05/07/07

1.5/4

There were definitely some unexplored situations that would have made this film a lot more enthralling.

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05/07/07

1.5/4

two hours of mindless violence and then have the nerve to lecture the audience on why violence is wrong.

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05/04/07

B-

Cheesy enough to satisfy your B-movie cravings in half Grindhouse's running time.

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05/03/07

D

That the movie was produced by World Wrestling Entertainment is just another source of amusement in a film that has some pretty funny ideas about what's entertaining.

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05/03/07

2.5/4

Wiper may make the point that people would pay to watch such a snuff film, but he too vigorously rubs his audience's nose in it.

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05/02/07

N/A

This is a fast-paced, well-made piece of garbage.

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04/30/07