The Condemned

2007 Action/Adventure

WWE superstar "Stone Cold" Steve Austin stars as a death row inmate who gets a rare second shot at life in director Scott Wiper's adrenaline-charged action thriller. Jack Conrad (Austin) is a dangerous convict currently awaiting execution in a corrupt Central American prison. "Purchased" by a wealthy television producer and transported to a deserted island, the formidable inmate is offered the opportunity to avoid capital punishment and win back his freedom by fighting to the death against nine other condemned criminals in an illegal game to be broadcast uncensored over the Internet. Rick Hoffman and Vinnie Jones co-star in a brutal battle royal of non-stop carnage.

Director: Scott Wiper

Starring: Steve Austin, Vinnie Jones, Rick Hoffman, Robert Mammone

 31 Reviews  1 Awards

Reviews

  • "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.

    - Entertainment Weekly

    27 April 2013

  • The Condemned isn't post-modern junk, smirky junk, faux junk or clever junk. It's pure junk, with a certain integrity to it.

    Mick LaSalle - The San Francisco Chronicle

    27 April 2013

  • Steve Austin is conspicuously inarticulate and uncharismatic. Former soccer lout Vinnie Jones, whom no one will ever mistake for Laurence Olivier, acts rings around him.

    Maitland McDonagh - TV Guide

    27 April 2013

  • 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.

    - Los Angeles Times

    27 April 2013

  • This is the worst kind of movie, one that insults its audience by purporting to condemn violence while simultaneously reveling in it.

    Claudia Puig - USA Today

    27 April 2013

Awards

  • Best Feature Action/Horror Casting

    Casting Society of America (2007)

     

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