Btexxamar I like Black Panther, but I didn't like this movie.

Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.

LouHomey From my favorite movies..

Winifred The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

Richard Dominguez Fantastic Action Movie With A Terrific Story As Well ... Robert Carlyle (The Full Monty) One Of My Favorite Actors Is Wonderful As A Priest Who Has Lost His Way Getting Dragged Into A Tournament That Will Help Him Find His Way ... Ving Rhames (Pulp Fiction) Is Excellent As A Returning Champion Assassin With His Own Agenda ... Kelly Hu (X-Men 2) Does A Marvelous Job As An Assassin Seeking Redemption ... The Action Is Non-Stop And The Theme Of The Story Is Never Lost In The Action ... Director Scott Mann (The Heist) Does A Wonderful Job Of Maintaining A Balance Between Action And Story All Within A 95 Minute Window ...

NateWatchesCoolMovies The Tournament is just about as awesome as action movies can get, and just about as bloody too. I love films involving assassins, contests, games, violence and such. The Running Man was clearly a huge influence on this one, right down to the inclusion of a larger than life game show host, here played by Liam Cunningham. Liam plays a shadowy nut job named Powers, and every four years he arranges an elaborate and incredibly destructive Olympic games for contract killers and psychos alike. Every time he hosts it in a new city, using hidden cameras and explaining away the damage with disasters and attacks. If this sounds so very 80's, it is. We're in throwback city here, with a touch of modern tone not unlike Joe Carnahan's Smokin Aces. The reigning champion is Joshua Harlow (Ving Rhames), a brutal warrior who has been coaxed back into the game with revenge on his mind. Each assassin is fitted with a tracking device so they can track each other, an idea which goes haywire when a civilian accidentally gets stuck with one and ends up in the cross hairs. The civilian in question is a drunken priest (lol) played by Robert Carlyle, who has no idea what's going on and suddenly has a dwindling life expectancy. He catches a break when a lethal but sympathetic female competitor (beauty queen Kelly Hu is an angel of physicality) takes pity and decides to help him out. They've got quite an armada to cut through though, including a rowdy cockney whacko (Craig Conway) a parkour master (Sebastian Foucan), an ex Spetsnaz freak (Scott Adkins) with a habit of blowing stuff up left right and center, and lastly a Texan pretty boy lunatic played cheerfully by Ian Somerhalder. He's so evil they just had to include a bit where he shoots a stray dog in the face without batting a perfect eyelash (animal lovers, you've been forewarned). All this mayhem is taken in by Powers and his sickening audience of wealthy kingpins, who sit in a great big boardroom and bet on the outcome of the carnage. Cunningham is a blast of devilish charm as Powers, an amoral villain of dark showmanship and sociopathic class. Between exploding heads, grenades ripping through the streets of London, frenetic hand to hand combat, colorful personalities, over the top depictions of bad human behavior and a general sense of hedonistic, slash and burn glee, this is one for the books.

fred here really good cast and plot. suffice it to say that the hotness of Lia Lia or whatever her name is, is awesome. the fight scenes are great, the car crashes are fantastic, and the destruction and mayhem or spectacular! i think that says it all. i would like to add that ving rhames is awesome in this and another movie called "operation endgame". the priest, father mcavory, that accidentally gets drawn into the game is awesome. very well directed and cinematography and action scenes were great. enough said, go have fun watching this movie. it was right up my alley. they want me to write ten lines of review. why. . i wrote nine and only five lines showed up. and they wont let me write giberious so. copy paste really good cast and plot. suffice it to say that the hotness of Lia Lia or whatever her name is, is awesome. the fight scenes are great, the car crashes are fantastic, and the destruction and mayhem or spectacular! i think that says it all. i would like to add that ving rhames is awesome in this and another movie called "operation endgame". the priest, father mcavory, that accidentally gets drawn into the game is awesome. very well directed and cinematography and action scenes were great. enough said, go have fun watching this movie. it was right up my alley. well, i think that says it all.

phantom_pixie I was looking forward to this film, since it sounded like an interesting idea.Just a few minutes into the film you see that it's the same set-up as Battle Royale. And quite frankly, lot's of things seem to be taken directly from that film. I know the concept isn't new, but I really hoped that this film would do something unique for it self. Instead, it's Battle Royale, with adults. And the premise that they are assassins. Unfortunately I don't really see that. There is only one person that seem to actually be an assassin, perhaps two but we don't get to see much of it. Instead we see supposed "assasins" who can't hit the good guy with a weapon from five meters away. It's more like watching an early Bond film.The only good part is the fact that every head shot looks real. Other than that the film is predictable at every turn and the characters are almost one dimensional.