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2009 (UK) moreTagline:
Every Ten Years The World's Greatest Assassins Gather ... Only One Will Survive morePlot:
Every seven years in an unsuspecting town, The Tournament takes place. A battle royale between 30 of the world's deadliest assassins... more | full synopsisNewsDesk:
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The Tournament (Film Review) (From Fangoria. 7 November 2009, 11:05 AM, PST)
DVD Round Up, Oct. 30, 2009: ‘Sauna,’ ‘The Tournament,’ ‘The Butcher’
(From HollywoodChicago.com. 30 October 2009, 5:00 AM, PDT)
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Fun, if you're in the right mood more (29 total)Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Robert Carlyle | ... | Joseph MacAvoy |
 | Kelly Hu | ... | Lai Lai Zhen |
 | Ian Somerhalder | ... | Miles Slade |
 | Liam Cunningham | ... | Powers |
 | Ving Rhames | ... | Joshua Harlow |
| Sebastien Foucan | ... | Anton Bogart |
 | Craig Conway | ... | Steve Tomko |
| John Lynch | ... | Gene Walker |
 | Nick Rowntree | ... | Eddy Cusack |
 | Rachel Grant | ... | Lina Sofia |
 | Andy Nyman | ... | Tech Eddie |
| Iddo Goldberg | ... | Tech Rob |
 | Scott Adkins | ... | Yuri Petrov |
| Camilla Power | ... | Sarah Hunter |
| Tamika Cameran | ... | Joshua's Wife |
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When I first learned about this movie and its premise, I thought "What? Someone actually ripped off an Albert Pyun movie?!?!" Actually, the Pyun movie that's ripped off is MEAN GUNS, one of Pyun's better movies... though still not that great. I actually thought that these filmmakers had a good chance of improving on Pyun, so I gave this movie a try.
To be sure, this movie is not a masterpiece. There's barely a plot here, and most of the characters are thinly sketched out (the priest's sad situation, for one thing, is never explained.) However, what weaknesses the movie has are made up for considerably with the action. Whew, this movie is almost non-stop action! And the action scenes are pretty well done, with a mix of different kinds of action (martial arts, gunplay, and my favorite, a freeway chase.) Blood squirts, bodies explode, this movie has it all. You might think that this action becomes numbing after a while, but amazingly it keeps your interest up. So if you happen to be in the mood for a non-think kind of entertainment, THE TOURNAMENT will probably satisfy.