The Condemned 2 (2015)

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Fresh and Exciting

This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

The acting in this movie is really good.

THE CONDEMNED 2 is a late-stage straight-to-video sequel for a 2007 action flick starring Steve Austin. It has no connection with that movie expect to feature another tournament in which characters fight to the death for audience entertainment, although the setting isn't an island here but instead the action merely plays out in the desert countryside. Another former wrestler takes the lead role, but Randy Orton is completely terrible and has all of the charisma and acting ability of a garden ornament.The film's plot is clichéd and predictable, although it's fun to see what Wes Studi has been up to as of late. There are plentiful action scenes but none of them are particularly great, merely middling and acceptable at best. The dialogue is very poor and the film seems to go on forever despite a relatively short running time. At least Eric Roberts doesn't have to play the villain this time around.

The WWE made a direct-to-video sequel of their ripoff film of the Japanese cult classic "Battle Royale" that's painfully dull. No Steve Austin this time and instead the wrestler star is Randy Orton (I'm not familiar with him as a wrestler, but I do remember his dad, "Cowboy" Bob Orton). The original film stuck much closer to "Battle Royale," with unwitting victims finding themselves trapped on an island, wearing explosive collars, and then being told they have to kill each other in a set amount of time or all of their collars will explode. That was all straight out of Kinji Fukasaku's "Battle Royale," though I suppose one could argue that Fukasaku's film (based on a Japanese novel) was really a more violent update of "The Most Dangerous Game." However, the original Condemned, although derivative, was still entertaining and had some decent action. This sequel felt super cheap, especially the low budget desert setting where the competitors find themselves once again killing each other off for the entertainment of others. Eric Roberts and Wes Studi do some slumming, but they can't make this film worth watching or even watchable. Dullsville.

No don't get me wrong this is not a good movie.. But its fairly amusing actually pretty funny.. Unlike the first it is not sick to the point nausea. It is loaded with well mostly 90s nobody's and WWE numb skulls. But hey its kinda fun still not family friendly but OK for grown ups who are not chemically unbalanced. Oh need more lines Hey don't forget its badly acted including Eric Roberts now without lifts ha ha hes short and old now. On the positive it has well done photography and sound for a b movie. Plot is quite bad but can be followed and seen much worse in big budget movies. If you like Orton watch it or bad action movies or just a mindless romp.

This is a pretty darn bland movie with some poor editing and super cheesy and poorly executed action sequences. Mainly because of the camera execution, it was just lame from start to finish. The acting is pretty bad and seems like regular civilians with shaved heads, some muscle and a beard participated. Or guys that just look slick or a bit geeky played these roles. I like watching movies where it's survival of the fittest, but this movie was boring. I have seen much better from amateur youtube videos and much entertaining as well. Randy Orton for most the time, looked like he didn't know what he was doing. The movie is about an hour and thirty minutes and they try to milk every second of it. Because apparently movies have to be at least 1 hour and 30 minutes or close to it. So there is a bunch of shots of rich people throwing around money, cheering and making bets. Sure this can play a part in the story, but not when it's constantly shown over and over again. This is a action movie, but just about all of the action in this movie is downright stupid and doesn't make any sense. The story seems like something someone can come up with in like an hour by just sitting and writing. Even the interactions between characters was so bad, cliché and boring. Just pass on this one, it's a waste of time. I give this movie a 3 because they seem to have tried really hard to make a cool, stylish quasi video game style movie.3/10