Category: Action films

Really Awful Movies: Ep 40 – The Condemned

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Condemned to see The Condemned.

Move over Running Man/Hunger Games /Battle Royale. It’s a tournament to the death (last man standing set free) involving convicts, unwittingly starring in a bad reality TV show. And this is also a bad movie.

It features twin growlers, Stone Cold Steve Austin and Vinnie Jones. That’s a lot of growling and a lot of squinting. As a bonus, there’s lots of corny stereotyping.

We picked this up in Toronto’s Koreatown and we’re glad we did. So many questions, such as, under whose authority can convicted killers be released? That of a TV producer? What kind of jurisprudence is this? Hear how we survived…The Condemned!

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Really Awful Movies: Ep 36 – Ong Bak – Thai Warrior

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Ong Bak, Muay Thai Warrior is a wild Thai action film starring ass-kicking Tony Jaa. Jaa rules! The guy is a “human special effect.”

On this podcast, we discuss how we came to see this amazing film, its mesmerizing fights and chase scenes and our experiences in Thailand.

The plot is wafer-thin but who cares? RAM guy Jeff even watched it in Thai, minus the subtitles. And the movie didn’t suffer for it.

Thai villagers upset over the theft of their beloved Buddha statue get the village’s toughest resident to hunt it down in the mean streets of Bangkok.

 

Really Awful Movies: Ep 35 – Deadly Crossing

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Not so much a movie, as a few episodes of a dreadful TV show cobbled together INTO a movie.

In our quest to watch every Steven Seagal “movie” ever made, we bravely tackle Deadly Crossing.

In this, the amazing thespian aikido master tries to master a Cajun accent, and does so very unsuccessfully. And no discussion of a Seagal movie is complete without mentioning his brillo pad hairdo.

This is a Canadian-lensed dull police procedural with some of the worst Russian gangster accents ever committed to celluloid. For a $5 Walmart pickup, we can’t complain – too much.