I'm doing this review a day early due to tech difficulties but I deeply hope that it's minor so on with The Tournament. The film came out in October 2009 and it stars Ving Rhames, Kelly Hu, and Robert Carlyle. The plot is that every ten years thirty of the most deadliest killers and assassins are gather together to participate in "The Tournament". The last person left wins the $10,000,000 prize and also this tournament can happen at any place including a town filled with people. This tournament is run by a group of the world's wealthiest and most powerful men. Who also control the international media with their billions therefore they have devised the ultimate entertainment for themselves. The film starts off with Joshua Harlow (played by Ving Rhames) winning the previous tournament and can now retired with the prize money. Or will he? Ten years later another tournament begins in a small town somewhere in Europe, there we are introduced to Lai Lai Zhen (played by Kelly Hu) who like the other combatants are drugged and implanted with a tracker. Not too far in to the film Joshua makes his return to the tournament in search of one of the combatants who killed his wife and unborn child. Most of scenes in the film are mostly the combatants killing each other in the most gruesome way possible. Later in the film one of the combatants removes the tracker and tosses it to a coffee pot which in turn is served to Father Macavoy (played by Robert Carlyle). Macavoy is a failed and drunking priest, the film barely explains why he's a failed and drunking priest he just is. It does get a little bothersome but you'll get over that. So he drinks down the tracker and now all the combatants are after him and that when he runs into Lai Lai who figures out that he's not a combatant and decides to protect him. You're probably wondering does Father Macavoy actually wins the tournament out of sheer bullshit and luck. Well don't worry that doesn't happen he pukes out the tracker later on. Lai Lai and Father Macavoy bonded for a bit to found out that Lai Lai killed Joshua's wife and unborn child. And that she must win the tournament so that she can disappear from the world. So the final fight between Lai Lai and Joshua ends at a church where it's revealed that she was hired by Mr. Powers (played by Liam Cunningham) who is in charge of the tournament in order to trick Joshua in to coming back due to his mass popularity. The fight ends with Joshua killing Lai Lai thus winning the tournament again or did he?
Before I go on I want to say that Ving Rhames is an absolute bad ass in this film from beginning to end. One scene that he gets his index finger chopped off, shot in the leg, and stabbed in the shoulder. Yet he just keeps on being a bad ass, hell there's a car chase scene where he ends up chasing yet he easily walks away. That's right he's practically the flipping Terminator bad ass, you can't mess with him, you can't get away from him. He'll flipping killed you like it's a habit my friends. So the final scene of the film is at a place where the high-rollers are celebrating Joshua's win until he arrives there. Pissed to all hell of what Mr. Powers did to his family he kills him in the most bad ass way possible. That he takes Lai Lai's tracker (which it's been revealed early in the film that they're rigged to explode if there's no winner). Shoves it down Mr. Power's mouth and they both explode. That's right Ving Rhames is that of a bad ass that he dies like a bad ass.
My final verdict: This film is just gruesome and enjoyable and that Ving Rhames is a bad ass. I recommend watching this film. Hopefully next week its back to regularly schedule reviews and tech problems solved as I review Solarbabies.
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