The Tournament (2009)

The Tournament: Directed by Scott Mann. With Robert Carlyle, Kelly Hu, Ian Somerhalder, Liam Cunningham. A tournament is watched by dozens of wealthy men betting on which one of the 30 assassins will survive the next 24 hours “kill or die” and claim the USD10,000,000 prize. It takes place in an English town with plenty of CCTVs.

“When I saw the trailer for this film I immediately thought The Tournemnt had potential to be one of best action films of the last years, unfortunately thatu0026#39;s not the case. The premise is very interesting even if flawed; every seven years somewhere in the planet(usually in a random city) a tournament between the worldu0026#39;s deadliest assassins takes place. 30 assassins fight against each other in a bloody battle royale hoping to survive. The last one standing wins the tournament and receives a cash prize and more importantly the title of world nº1 assassin. This is obviously a receipt for lots of action,fighting,blood,death and so on… But as much as I love the concept, the movie felt short of my expectations…there are a couple of well done fighting scenes but overall the action in the film is not nearly as spectacular as the trailer led me to believe, itu0026#39;s just not impressive at all considering other action films that have been done before, and the few twists in the story are very easily predictable. The acting was average, while Ian Somerholder and others did a good job, Ving Rhames, for instance, was constantly over-acting. The tournament could have been amazing,instead it is a forgettable movie with a few more or less known actors that doesnu0026#39;t deliver what it promised.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003e5.5/10”