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The Condemned
I did not see this film from WWE Films, but here were some opinions on WWE's latest project.
The Condemned is a morally ambiguous, exceedingly violent and mostly forgettable action film.
Attacking the intended audience is one of those things that a filmmaker just doesn't do. Jeez!
if you're going to make a movie like this...do it right. Don't complicate things. Keep it simple, bloody, and stupid.
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.
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?!
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.
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 code blue.
As I said, I didn't see this film, but I know it was disappointing. This was a disappointment to all fans, especially Stone Cold fans. This was Round 3 of terrible films.
Behind Enemy Lines: Colombia
Well this film was straight to DVD starring Ken Kennedy, and I did see this. This was a fun movie, except it has nothing to do with Behind Enemy Lines. Also, it is pretty mediocre at times. Another one of WWE's soldier/action movies. Here are three short reviews before I move on:
If this film had been released in theaters, it would have been a bit of a bummer, but on DVD for some guilty pleasure, it's pretty decent.
...steps over the line from watchable time-waster to tedious waste of time, thus ensuring that all three movies share a fairly consistent level of mediocrity.
Colombia has the flair of a rough '80s actioner, only slicker.
But the only thing that makes me mad is that Kennedy isn't even the star in the film. He's got a pretty decent character, yet he's not the main star.
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