The Condemned

My practical exams are finally over and I have vamoosed into what people call a preparatory leave. People are supposed to prepare for exams during this time – hence the name. I am not doing anything even remotely close to it at this time. What I am doing is, watching a lot of movies and serials. I started with Californication, I then tried catching up with True Blood. I also watched Push, Blind Side, the International and the Condemned. I thought Condemned deserves to go first, mainly because I want to get back into the rhythm and this movie can be reviewed without the rhythm – it simply sucks.

The Condemned is a movie about savages. Some crackpot jackass millionaire (maybe multi) thinks it’s cool and justice to drop 10 criminals on death sentence on a deserted island, unknown to all the governments and intelligence agencies, and make them compete for 30 hours against each other in a match till death where the sole survivor gets to live, beating the death sentence.

That’s about it. There’s nothing else in the story. No dramatic twists, no brilliant performance, no witty humorous dialog ? The script was more or less like my blog posts written by an amateur – at least that was the impression I got. The movie is utterly boring unless all you like to watch is boring fights, censored cruelty and monotonous dialog.

The WWE/F star – this is one more stupid thing I totally hate/hated/will hate forever – Stone Cold / Steve Austin is acting in his second movie here. He does an okay job. The girls are okayish, the villains are stupid. The best performance has to be from Vinnie Jones. He is simply brilliant in this flick. Portrays a maniac like a maniac

Nothing much to write. As I said, nothing happens in this movie. Wasted 2 hours of my life.

My Rating? 1.5/5

Aditya Shevade

Aditya I am, a Linux fanatic, a nature photographer, a music fiend… I spend most of my time these days listening to Music while browsing the Internet about various topics of my interest ranging from Electronics to coffee recipes. Learn more about me here.