Posted: Sun Apr 18, 2010 3:59 pm
Gerard Butler is on death row, but if he wins four more times in a brutal competition where people fight to the death, he will be set free. Of course, the powers that be don't want that to happen.
Sound familiar? This is nothing more than The Running Man, Death Race, or any number of other films with the exact same plot.
The only addition to the plot is that people at home control the death competition participants. This subplot goes nowhere, and proves to be ultimately pointless.
There's nothing special here worth seeing, aside from Michael C. Hall's performance as the bad guy.
Rent it for a buck if you need an action fix, but even the action is that shaky cam crap with a lot of static shots thrown in to simulate playing a video game.
3 out of 10.
Sound familiar? This is nothing more than The Running Man, Death Race, or any number of other films with the exact same plot.
The only addition to the plot is that people at home control the death competition participants. This subplot goes nowhere, and proves to be ultimately pointless.
There's nothing special here worth seeing, aside from Michael C. Hall's performance as the bad guy.
Rent it for a buck if you need an action fix, but even the action is that shaky cam crap with a lot of static shots thrown in to simulate playing a video game.
3 out of 10.