The Condemned 2007 by AverageMansReviews

The Condemned 2007 by AverageMansReviews

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Warning: there is flashing effects/colourful effects/impaling/suicide/sexual assault/character on fire/stabbing/cutting of necks/exploding bodies/breaking of body parts.

Storyline/Characters/Performances: also including the pacing and the on-screen chemistry; All five of these components in one way or another go hand-in-hand in this project. All five of these components in theory should have been either something between safe and reliable or reliably good. But the pacing for this project really, really doesn't do this film any favours whatsoever.

Because it is so agonizingly slow it has this knock on effect throughout the other four components, so be it the character developments or the performances or the on-screen chemistry they come off as dull watching paint dry versions of themselves, to be fair and balanced I am going to say the performers did the best they could in this situation, you know what I mean; the character developments and the performances are not the problem [if you choose to watch this film; you will probably come up with the same conclusion that I did; that these performers got left high and dry with the pacing consequently the on-screen chemistry is not there, so as I have already said they did the best they could in this situation.

Action/Art: these two components go hand-in-hand for a very small number of times so I will bring up just one example: when our convicts are being thrown off these Choppers in mid-air into the water below [minus one] when these convicts hit and go under the water the camera shots are right there to capture what is happening here and they are good artistic visions.

Action individually there are weapons being used, combat and chasing; here's one example we have our lead character/performer Austin/Ripley/Conrad by night pulling across this rope in mid-air from underneath.

Art individually there are these Sun and early-morning sky; these are good.

This film receives: 1/10, this film is poor; not to repeat myself too much here, but I'm speculating if this film had a better pacing or take off about 23 minutes of this film so it is roughly a 90 minute film [it is roughly 113 minutes long,] either option taken here would have given this project no other choice but to get it skates on which would have ignited the on-screen chemistry. If there are any wrestling fans out there in Internet land this film is also starring WWE's Nathan Jones as Petr Raudsep and likewise if there are any fans of Vinnie Jones he is the character Ewan McStarle.