Rotten
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.
Mark Holcomb, Time Out New York
The Condemned
10 will fight, 9 will die. You get to watch.
2007 · 1h 53m · R
Action, Thriller
Directed by
Scott Wiper
Overview
Jack Conrad 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.
Director and cast
- Scott Wiper Director
- Steve Austin as Conrad
- Vinnie Jones as McStarley
- Robert Mammone as Breckel
- Tory Mussett as Julie (as Victoria Mussett)
- Manu Bennett as Paco
- Madeleine West as Sarah Cavanaugh
- Rick Hoffman as 'Goldy' Goldman
- Sullivan Stapleton as Special Agent Wilkins
- Andrew Buchanan as Lyle
- Christopher James Baker Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
15%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Cheesy enough to satisfy your B-movie cravings in half Grindhouse's running time.
Marc Bernardin, Entertainment Weekly
Rotten
This is a fast-paced, well-made piece of garbage.
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
Rotten
In the great pantheon of recent WWE vehicles, The Condemned ranks somewhere above the Kane vehicle See No Evil and below the John Cena-starrer The Marine.
Nathan Rabin, AV Club
Rotten
If you thought getting voted off the island on Survivor was tough, The Condemned takes that concept as ridiculously and hideously far as can be imagined.
Claudia Puig, USA Today
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