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The Condemned

Genre: Action/Adventure, Other, Thriller
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Jack Riley (although the producers think his name is Jack Conrad) (Austin) is a dangerous convict awaiting execution in a Salvadoran prison. "Purchased" by a wealthy television producer and transported to a deserted island in the South Pacific along with nine other condemned criminals (similarly purchased from prisons around the world), they are "offered" the opportunity to avoid capital punishment and win back their freedom by fighting to the death in an illegal game to be filmed and broadcast live over the Internet.

A bomb is placed on the ankle of every contestant, each featuring a 30-hour countdown timer, and a ripcord that will detonate the bomb after a 10 second delay. The winner will have his/her bomb removed and be given his/her freedom as the prize. Breckel (Robert Mammone), the producer, has recognized the power of the Internet, blogs and social networks as advertising tools for his show and is aiming for online ratings that equal or beat the latest Super Bowl reception of 40 million TV viewers.

As the broadcast progresses, FBI agents discover Conrad's real identity as Jack Riley after a tip from one of Conrad's former classmates. Conrad is discovered to be a former Delta Force operative who was captured on a Black ops mission to El Salvador after bombing a building controlled by drug dealers. Conrad's girlfriend becomes aware of the situation and is shown viewing the show at a local bar through the majority of the movie.

Ewan McStarley (Vinnie Jones) and Saiga (Masa Yamaguchi) team up to remove the competition, while Yasantwa (Emelia Burns) uses her wiles to trick others to their death. After seeing the show's broadcast tower before the show, Conrad infiltrates the tower and calls his girlfriend, managing to tell her the latitude of the island before he is forced to leave.

After the other seven contestants have died (see below), Conrad is left alone against McStarley and Saiga. He stabs Saiga, and McStarley flees. Eventually, a helicopter drops a shotgun down to McStarley, who uses it to hunt down Conrad. After Conrad falls into a stream, McStarley runs into the cameraman and his armed guard dressed in ghillie suits while searching for Conrad, and shoots them, picking up the guard's MP5.

When McStarley and Conrad meet again, Conrad ends up rolling over a cliff and into a stream to avoid being shot by McStarley's shotgun. Conrad is presumed dead by the fall, and McStarley is declared the winner. As McStarley is being driven to the control tower to collect his prize, Breckel hears that the FBI has sent United States Navy SEALs to take him into custody. After he meets McStarley and de-activates his bomb, he tells him that he won't receive his prize money. We see here that Breckel and McStarley fixed the game in his favor in exchange for his freedom and profits. McStarley takes a Heckler & Koch MP5 from one of the guards, and kills the tech team in the building, one by one, since they truthfully didn't know that Breckel is abandoning them all. When he corners Julie, Breckel's girlfriend, he is confronted by Conrad, who shoots him several times after a brief dialogue. Conrad grabs McStarley's two MP5's and chases down Breckel, who is fleeing the island in a helicopter. After emptying the two guns firing at the helicopter, he is given McStarley's re-activated ankle bomb by Julie. Conrad throws it into the helicopter, which explodes and crashes into a cliff.

The epilogue shows Conrad driving back to his home in Texas, a free man, and meets his girlfriend (Madeleine West), who presumed him dead after he fell off the cliff in his struggle against McStarley.

Director:

No Director information.
Screenplay: Scott Wiper , Rob Hedden , Andy Hedden
Studio: Others
DVD Release: 2007-09-18 00:00:00.0
Tagline: The fight is on.
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Synopsis

Jack Riley (although the producers think his name is Jack Conrad) (Austin) is a dangerous convict awaiting execution in a Salvadoran prison. "Purchased" by a wealthy television producer and transported to a deserted island in the South Pacific along with nine other condemned criminals (similarly purchased from prisons around the world), they are "offered" the opportunity to avoid capital punishment and win back their freedom by fighting to the death in an illegal game to be filmed and broadcast live over the Internet.

A bomb is placed on the ankle of every contestant, each featuring a 30-hour countdown timer, and a ripcord that will detonate the bomb after a 10 second delay. The winner will have his/her bomb removed and be given his/her freedom as the prize. Breckel (Robert Mammone), the producer, has recognized the power of the Internet, blogs and social networks as advertising tools for his show and is aiming for online ratings that equal or beat the latest Super Bowl reception of 40 million TV viewers.

As the broadcast progresses, FBI agents discover Conrad's real identity as Jack Riley after a tip from one of Conrad's former classmates. Conrad is discovered to be a former Delta Force operative who was captured on a Black ops mission to El Salvador after bombing a building controlled by drug dealers. Conrad's girlfriend becomes aware of the situation and is shown viewing the show at a local bar through the majority of the movie.

Ewan McStarley (Vinnie Jones) and Saiga (Masa Yamaguchi) team up to remove the competition, while Yasantwa (Emelia Burns) uses her wiles to trick others to their death. After seeing the show's broadcast tower before the show, Conrad infiltrates the tower and calls his girlfriend, managing to tell her the latitude of the island before he is forced to leave.

After the other seven contestants have died (see below), Conrad is left alone against McStarley and Saiga. He stabs Saiga, and McStarley flees. Eventually, a helicopter drops a shotgun down to McStarley, who uses it to hunt down Conrad. After Conrad falls into a stream, McStarley runs into the cameraman and his armed guard dressed in ghillie suits while searching for Conrad, and shoots them, picking up the guard's MP5.

When McStarley and Conrad meet again, Conrad ends up rolling over a cliff and into a stream to avoid being shot by McStarley's shotgun. Conrad is presumed dead by the fall, and McStarley is declared the winner. As McStarley is being driven to the control tower to collect his prize, Breckel hears that the FBI has sent United States Navy SEALs to take him into custody. After he meets McStarley and de-activates his bomb, he tells him that he won't receive his prize money. We see here that Breckel and McStarley fixed the game in his favor in exchange for his freedom and profits. McStarley takes a Heckler & Koch MP5 from one of the guards, and kills the tech team in the building, one by one, since they truthfully didn't know that Breckel is abandoning them all. When he corners Julie, Breckel's girlfriend, he is confronted by Conrad, who shoots him several times after a brief dialogue. Conrad grabs McStarley's two MP5's and chases down Breckel, who is fleeing the island in a helicopter. After emptying the two guns firing at the helicopter, he is given McStarley's re-activated ankle bomb by Julie. Conrad throws it into the helicopter, which explodes and crashes into a cliff.

The epilogue shows Conrad driving back to his home in Texas, a free man, and meets his girlfriend (Madeleine West), who presumed him dead after he fell off the cliff in his struggle against McStarley.

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