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(1 - 20) of 20 OFCS Rating: 0% Rotten Page   1   D "I did learn that Steve Austin can throw a cell phone-sized piece of C4 into a helicopter from a quarter mile away. Get him a uniform!"   FromTheBalcony   Bill Clark 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."   Filmcritic.com   Blake French D "To lecture an audience (primarily wrestling fans) that violence is w-r-o-n-g is either the most inspired button of psychosis I've come across yet during my time as a critic, or actual proof that nobody was paying attention when they made this film."   OhmyNews.com   Brian Orndorf C- ""The Condemned" poses a question about why the word "whore" is considered equal to or greater than "murderer.""   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey "Where's Richard Dawson when you need him?"   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 1/5 "Wiper loses the audience for good when he has some of his supporting characters give long speeches that thrash the contest before showing additional fights."   eFilmCritic.com   Dan Lybarger 1/5 ""Those of us who watch, are we the condemned?" a character asks in a laughable attempt at earnestness. In a way, we are indeed: condemned to watch 111 minutes of suck."   eFilmCritic.com   David Cornelius .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..."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair 1/4 "A laughably heavy-handed sermon railing against the modern-day media's greedy thirst for exploitation as a means of entertainment."   TheMovieBoy.com   Dustin Putman 1/4 "A shameless rip on Kinji Fukasaku's Battle Royale, The Condemned unseats Slow Burn as the most hilariously inane film of 2007."   Slant Magazine   Ed Gonzalez D "A sloppy, black-hearted pile of crap, calculated to titillate an audience of tools by giving them tough-guy dialogue, savage violence, and Nickelback songs."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider F "A near-lunatic combination of a movie that's basically wall-to-wall violence--not especially well-executed, at that--with a warning about the effects of violent entertainment."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 1.5/4 "The Condemned is the latest action film from director Scott Wiper. It is also a noun describing those poor viewers who end up stuck in a theater showing this film."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 1/4 "Director Scott Wiper makes the critical mistake of copping attitude and a conscience about the inherent pitfalls of reality TV."   Palo Alto Weekly   Jeanne Aufmuth 4/10 "It's tough not to think of a big, dumb, talentless slab of beef when you watch former phony-wrestling star Steve Austin in action here."   Planet Sick-Boy   Jon Popick 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."   MovieCrypt.com   Kevin A. Ranson 1.5/4 "The action scenes do a better job than the exposition when it comes to turning us off of violence as entertainment, just by being so lousy."   Montreal Film Journal   Kevin N. Laforest 1.5/4 "Perhaps the worst aspect of this shameless rehash of better movies like Battle Royale (2000), Series 7 (2001) and even The Running Man (1987) is not its astonishing dullness but its pretentions to moral rectitude."   TV Guide's Movie Guide   Maitland McDonagh 1/4 "This movie didn't just miss the boat on the condemnation of reality TV; it started swimming in the other direction to try to catch up with it."   Mark Reviews Movies   Mark Dujsik D+ "... a sloppy, indifferent action movie with a sadistic edge and a sour hypocrisy."   Seattle Post-Intelligencer   Sean Axmaker  (1 - 20) of 20 OFCS Rating: 0% Rotten Page   1