When a well known wrestler gets a movie, the sad truth is that it could very well suck. Some may miss when the world wrestling foundation (entertainment) was all about wrestling, and they didn't try and start a movie company, or an Xtreme football team. I know I do. WWE is a soap opera for men.
Condemned wasn't too bad. It was fun, it was action and incredible bullshit, it had a sobering Nickelback song on as Conrad rolled up to his house where his wife stared at him and he smiled. Everybody in the movie was scared of their Battle Royale situation but he was such a hardass he was pissed off through the entire movie. Hey, he's Steve Austin.
I hated Kane not being a mysterious dark predator. He took off the mask and started talking and now he looks like a mongoloid. I didn't want to see this movie because the plot itself was dumb. They take a bunch of asshole kids from some juvenile hall to do community service cleaning up this big hotel. This old woman owns it and says she pushed all the hobos out. But did she? The teens get picked off as they party and bend the rules, by Kane and his giant hook on a chain. He catches each of their limbs in whatever elevator, dumb waiter, and door he goes through and the camera always focuses on it. Does it have symbolic meaning? Probably not. That was one thing they got carried away with. Unessessary and stupid camera tricks. Some cop finds a lightswitch. It goes into matrix time and everybody freezes as the camera travels completely around the room then zooms in like a fighter jet on his finger about to hit the switch. Three guys are walking in a straight line so the camera keeps alternating above and in front of them but it's always intensely crooked. The end of the movie after the big "twist" (The old lady that lives in the hotel is Kane's mother and she raises him to kill all the assholes that come in to clean the place because she's nuts) Kane has all these flashbacks about how he was kept in a cage through his whole adolescence (where he started lifting weights and chucking down kegs of creatine) then he falls because despite how many heads you crush and how many feet you get stuck in doors you can't beat falling out of a window. Goes through the glass, then hits the groud. And as he's hitting the ground this dramatic CG sequence takes you into Kane's ribcage where you zoom through a bunch of shit and see his heart, and then it explodes like a fruity gusher. They went fucking gonzo through this movie with dumb effects. I know Kane's supposed to be crazy, and scary, and disturbing. But too many camera effects, and sound effects can turn a movie into a fuck up.
I really didn't care for that movies