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Languishing in development and production hell for what seems to be an eternity, Scott Mann’s film THE TOURNAMENT finally gets a valid DVD release Oct 20th. The “combat death game” genre has been inundated with several films throughout the years such as BATTLE ROYAL, BLOODSPORT and THE ULTIMATE GAME. THE TOURNAMENT makes its trace by delivering a knockout punch with over the top action and enough residence twists to support the viewer alive to.
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The narrative opens seven years ago with Ving Rhames character in a final bloodbath in a sordid meat packing company with two other assassins vying for the title of “World’s Greatest Assassin”. The scene is ultra sadistic, chaotic and bullets are flying like candy from an out of control mechanical Pez dispenser. As soon as Ving wins the battle, the environment snappy shifts forward to the point to day and the next tournament begins.
The indicate day battle, taking situation in England, centers on 30 contestants all vying for a 10 million dollar prize and a chance to be hailed as the “World’s Greatest Assassin”. Each of the contestants is fitted with a two contrivance tracking plan which not only allows them to be seen by the game’s ringleader, but also to be tracked by each other, on a blackberry type gadget. There are street cams, sat cams which are logged in with accurate time feeds to characterize the action for high stakes gamblers relaxing comfortably in front of jumbo screens surveying this game of death.
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Each one of the devices contains a personal explosive as in the movie FORTRESS. The devises are heat sensitive and the tracking lights go out when either removed or the person expires. This is never fully explained, nor is it consistent. This fact is a major incongruity and contradiction, while also rather confusing. The relative ease as to which one of the contestants removes their plan is bizarre. Probably the 10 million dollar prize would force people to want to pause in the game?
THE TOURNAMENT is a “memoir on the skim” auctioneer. The audience learns on the go about the characters, their faults, past history, and special skills while the action is occurring. There are several twists as the action unfolds and to shriek more about them would deter from the enjoyment of the hastily paced, diversified epic, which includes an unwilling participant who happens to be a priest. Revealing anything about him or why he is alive to would deter from a set complication which occurs quite early in the film.
Kelly Hu from “X-Men 2″ and Martial Law plays a Chinese assassin named Lai Lai Zen with a strong situation of hand to hand combat skills, combined with lightning mercurial reflexes. She has several entertaining fights in the film. The filming style mature when she is eager is like the Jason Bourne series, halt up in your face action. The edits are sometimes a bit rapid. This slightly deters from the action, but keeps the viewer engaged. The stunt martial duties are expertly performed by 3rd degree dismal belt Tea Kwon Do instructor, stuntwoman Kimberly Chiang. Ms Chiang is currently working on KING OF FIGHTERS having more than 50 films to her credit.
Kelly Hu has improbable onscreen presence in THE TOURNAMENT especially as her character is drugged to implant the chip. She has to go through a wide variety of emotions throughout the film and commands the camouflage with her intensity and fortitude. A lead section such as this might catapult her befriend into the action realm.
Ving Rhames plays Joshua Harlow the past winner of the contest and a grieving husband. The yarn unfolds revealing win out his wife was murdered by one of the contestants. Usually relegated to gigantic scary guy in his films, Rhames plays the role with passion and perhaps delivers one of his most dominant performances in his career.
This movie is so unbelievably violent and the drag is astonishingly frantic almost in the style of SHOOT `EM UP. THE TOURNAMENT also contains a variety of elements to offend everyone. Not for the faint at heart, this movie includes nudity and violence in the same scene, as a strip club becomes a warzone. One of the characters, playing up his crazy cowboy mentality, kills people and dare I say an animal not even in the game unbiased for fun. If these facts are bothersome by all means halt away, the audience has been warned.
The twelve million dollar budget was archaic to tubby carry out with hand to hand combat, knife fights, gunfights, and a battle on a Double Decker bus! The action is nonstop for 90 straight minutes. Oddly there is a bizarre montage in the middle with the slowest music possible, bullets and bodies are flying. Perhaps this is some sort of an attempt of a dichotomous allegory or maybe simply budget or time constraints.
Even with the incongruities, distractions, rather unpleasant box art, and place holes this is an unyielding, forceful, and memorable action film. THE TOURNAMENT features several blink and you miss it sequences and is worth divulge watching and should have had a theatrical bustle. The recommendation is a strong rent even a win, especially if you liked SHOOT `EM UP or BATTLE ROYAL.
Danny Shamon-2009
I picked this up again on the strength of the headlining talent in front of the camera…and am happy I did. This petite independently distributed film is a gem..has a slight bit of everything for the action movie loving audience. The premise is that every ten years a tournament is held throughout a city that pits the worlds top assassins against each other to the death. ( This notion..though not yet over weak is nothing original, and has been done in similar ways in films like “Battle Royale”, and more recently “The Condemned” both enchanting…but B.R. is a new classic.) The Tournament has enough differences to stand on it’s hold. The cast in general is really talented and do very well with the characters and script, but there are some stand outs. Kelly Hu is simply ample, in a performance that rivals if not trumps her butt kicking character in X2, she plays an assassin for the yakuza and looks astonishing in the action scenes…she really sells it. Ian Somerhalder plays a psychopath looking for notoriety, he is an actor I’ve not seen before but will be determined to sustain an peek out for him as he delivers brilliantly…but the best performance by far in this film is delivered by venerable character actor Robert Carlyle, who always delivers…but his star shines quick-witted in his portrayal if a priest who is questioning his calling and gets caught up in the middle of the mass assassinate parade that is the Tournament. The cast is rounded out with other valuable talents.
With Action that takes residence in every possible position from rooftops, to street corners, from barrooms to bathrooms this non discontinuance adrenalin bustle packs a wallop…and keeps the viewer aroused and attention wrapped until the closing credits. This is a keeper for any action movie fan.
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