'The Tournament' Trailer is a Ton of Bloody Fun!
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In any given action movie, who is the character you remember the most, the guy (or girl) you walk out of the theater desperately wanting to emulate? Isn't it usually the cold-blooded assassin, with tricks and gadgets, and the ability to get in and out of every building and trap? If it's not, you should reevaluate your priorities.
But at any rate, if one assassin is cool, what about an entire movie of assassins? What if they were hunting each other down? Wouldn't that be a movie you'd line up to see? If so, your prayers have been answered with The Tournament which takes that wonderful idea, and runs to blood-and-explosions heaven with it. Directed by Scott Mann, The Tournament centers on a lethal contest that sees the world's finest assassins gather in an unsuspecting town, and try to kill each other off for a cash prize. Collateral damage and corpses abound. This year, one unlucky priest (Robert Carlyle) finds himself an unwilling contestant, and must kill or be killed. It also stars Ving Rhames, Kelly Hu, Ian Somerhalder, Scott Adkins, and Sebastien Foucan.
The trailer is below the jump, and was brought to our attention by our friends at Live for Films. Watch it, and revel in its sheer craziness. Plus, who doesn't love when priests are forced to handle weaponry? Unfortunately, The Tournament doesn't yet have a release date (there seem to be unfounded whispers of it going straight to DVD on October 20), but let's get some online buzz going so we can see it soon.
But at any rate, if one assassin is cool, what about an entire movie of assassins? What if they were hunting each other down? Wouldn't that be a movie you'd line up to see? If so, your prayers have been answered with The Tournament which takes that wonderful idea, and runs to blood-and-explosions heaven with it. Directed by Scott Mann, The Tournament centers on a lethal contest that sees the world's finest assassins gather in an unsuspecting town, and try to kill each other off for a cash prize. Collateral damage and corpses abound. This year, one unlucky priest (Robert Carlyle) finds himself an unwilling contestant, and must kill or be killed. It also stars Ving Rhames, Kelly Hu, Ian Somerhalder, Scott Adkins, and Sebastien Foucan.
The trailer is below the jump, and was brought to our attention by our friends at Live for Films. Watch it, and revel in its sheer craziness. Plus, who doesn't love when priests are forced to handle weaponry? Unfortunately, The Tournament doesn't yet have a release date (there seem to be unfounded whispers of it going straight to DVD on October 20), but let's get some online buzz going so we can see it soon.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
8-22-2009 @ 7:36PM
Cyhort said...
Wow, that trailer made every single mindless action movie bone in my body tingle. The only way that that could be any more awesome is if at the end of the trailer Arnold Schwarzenegger threw a nuclear bomb into somebodies face, shot off a corny one liner before detonating it then somehow survived the explosion.
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8-22-2009 @ 8:18PM
Dante said...
He'd hide in a fridge, of course!
8-22-2009 @ 8:51PM
madgamer said...
That looked cool to me. I hope it gets a real theatrical release.
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8-22-2009 @ 9:19PM
JC said...
Is it me or does the picture above say "Every 10 years..." but the trailer clip says "Every seven years...". Someone needs to get their crap together.
Besides that, they stole the logo for the tournament from the 3 year project "Vincent" over at Transdimensional Films
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8-22-2009 @ 10:42PM
RTMS said...
Is this a rip off of Mean Guns? Same premise, only they are inside a massive prison instead of a town?
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8-23-2009 @ 4:40AM
DyingAtheist said...
Ok, Captain Pedantic alert. The bullet is in midair, as shown by the shadow, but the bullet casing is still attached? Seems like a pretty strange mistake for an action movie.
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8-23-2009 @ 11:34AM
Winston W. said...
It seems more like The Quick and the Dead. Bunch of assassins gather in a town and try to take each other out and a priest takes them all out. Of course he used to be an assassin before he was enlightened. Still looks cool.
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8-23-2009 @ 11:51AM
Andy said...
Ah, I saw that a few months ago online. Looks like good, silly fun. Set in the UK too, judging by the vehicles, which is a welcome change.
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8-23-2009 @ 12:12PM
Chet said...
I don't care where else I might have seen this premise before, I like it. Gimme gimme gimme.
I hope it DOES go straight to DVD. Then we don't have to wait four to six months for it to hit theaters, where it'll immediately be relegated to the screens smaller than my living room with the scrappy projectors that wash everything out and scratch it to hell on the first showing... and then wait another four to six months for it to be watchable with good seating, decent popcorn, and clear image and sound, i.e. at my house.
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