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6.2/10   4,798 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Gary Young (written by) &
Jonathan Frank (written by) ...
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Release Date:
8 October 2009 (Kuwait) more
Genre:
Tagline:
Every Ten Years The World's Greatest Assassins Gather ... Only One Will Survive more
Plot:
Every seven years in an unsuspecting town, The Tournament takes place. A battle royale between 30 of the world's deadliest assassins... more | full synopsis
User Reviews:
Has been done better before! more (34 total)

Cast

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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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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated R for strong bloody violence, language and some nudity.
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USA:R (certificate #45537) | Germany:Not Rated (SPIO/JK)
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Fun Stuff

Goofs:
Continuity: When Lai Lai opens the suitcase and holds up the 9PM there is a close up of her hand. Then the next shot is of her turning off the shower, with a noticeably very different hand. more
Quotes:
Gene Walker: What's the matter, Mr. Harlow? Are you out of bullets? Why, here, have some of mine!
[opens fire]
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Soundtrack:
Lai Lai Fights more

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19 out of 25 people found the following review useful.
Has been done better before!, 27 October 2009
5/10
Author: e_esben from Denmark

So there is a tournament every 7 years where the worlds best assassins fight to their death, and the winner wins 10 mio dollar. Each assassin gets an implant and a locating device so they can find each other. The tournaments takes place in a normal city, where the mess that is made will be blamed on terrorists and madmen to keep the tournament a secret.

It is a premise with lots of potential for a fun movie. What breaks this movie is the bad character development; you know who are going to be be the finalists from the start, but just just hope that they will be killed off because there are no reasons to like them.

Still the movie has so great action that makes it relatively enjoyable. There are some brutal kills (e.g. people exploding with meat all over) and some fun fights (e.g. strip club). But it has all been seen much better in movies as The Condemned, Battle Royal, Death Race and The Running Man.

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