Wednesday, November 18, 2009

The Tournament Review

Thanks for checking out our Review, this film is from first-time director Scott Mann, I doubt this film made it to a full American release. It came out some time in September. surprisingly it has some great american and british actors including one Scottish actor who is slowly rising to earn great roles in Tv and film, Robert Carlyle!

The Story
Every Seven years in an unsuspecting town, The Tournament takes place. A battle royale among 30 of the world’s deadliest assassins. The last man standing receives the $10,000,000 cash prize and the title of World's No 1 (which itself carries the legendary million-dollar-a-bullet price tag). The Tournament is set up by a group of sick high-stake billionaires who watch the mayhem unfold via CCTV and bet on its outcome. Each of the assassins carry a tracking device, embedded under their skin, allowing the observers to monitor the Tournaments movements and the assassins to track each other.The tournament lasts twenty-four hours, and if no assassin has won then the tracking device under their skin will explode. When the French man removes his tracker and throws it into a coffee pot, a local priest (Robert Carlyle) who inadvertently swallows it is caught in the crossfire.

The Good
Surprisingly this movie uses the camera really well
, watching through the entire movie. I never saw a bad angle or shaky cam that made me dizzy. Finally a well done action flick without shaky cam that is actually entertaining to watch. Gasp!! Have people finally realized that to much shaky cam just looks stupid. The action in the movie is excellent, sooo much blood, and kickassery that it made me giggle like a school girl (well... more than I already do XP). It's one those films where anyone of them could die at anytime, and you wouldn't see it coming, I love it!!!

The Bad
I'm really getting tired of these movies about Battle Royales (unless it's actually "Battle Royale" cause that book is fucking awesome.) Being controlled by billionaire's and gambling over people's lives. I do have another problem with this movie, (kind of a spoiler, but it's just explaining his character) Robert Carlyle plays a whining, terrified priest. And throughout the whole movie, that's all he does.

All-In-All
This is one of those movies you should rent on a long lazy weekend, along with others. 8.5 out of 10.

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