Saturday, February 06, 2010

Movie review: The Tournament

The Tournament
Duration: about 100 minutes.

Synopsis: Every seven years in an unsuspecting town, ‘the Tournament' takes place- a secret hitman competition between 30 of the world's deadliest assassins; with the last man standing receiving a $10m cash prize. The Tournament is set up by a syndicate of high stake billionaire gamblers, watching the mayhem unfold via CCTV cameras, betting on its outcome.

The killers are implanted with tracking devices and are given palm pilot monitors so that they can locate their opponents. But one killer has cut the tracker out and local drunken priest Macavoy has inadvertently swallowed it. Beautiful hitwoman Lailai is still haunted by her last hit- an innocent pregnant woman. She seeks redemption by trying to protect the priest until the bug works it way through his system. They manage to kill or evade most of the assassins, but reigning champion Joshua tracks them down. The innocent woman was his wife Mary, and he demands to know why she was killed instead of him. Joshua learns from Lailai that Mary was always the target, ordered by syndicate organiser Powers to ensure he took part in the tournament. Joshua goes to wreak bloody revenge on the ringmaster!

My views: i've watched this movie in october last year (read here). & the next day, i was telling my friends to watch it, it's freaking awesome. the show is like ... battle royale, killing each other to ensure your own survival. the gore & brutality is (hope i dont sound sick by saying this) AWESOME! a lot of action & blooooood. i cannot exactly remember the details but i remembered it as a very awesome movie, and i wouldnt mind catching it the second time (in fact i am planning to do so) because, the suspense is so thrilling! (why do i feel like my english has become so crappy =.='') if you are a sucker for over-the-top action-filled & full-of-gory-scenes movies like i am, you'd love this movie as much as i do.

Ratings: 4.5 out of 5! enjoy the bloodbath!

9 comments:

Jan said...

Never heard of this movie but sounds awesome! I'm going to watch it!

Kelvin said...

Battle royale is better coz this movie's story is not very good. But its action pack.

Wil5 said...

Did u use blogger and find a webhost changing the name, or did u write the HTML script yourself, because im wonder, when i saw your script, it has the word blogger, BTW im asking because the Header is nice, i wonder how u did it

Wil5 said...

IM Singaporean too, Im from Northvista Secondary School, Nice ta meet ya! ^_^

von Yvonne said...

@jan: hmm yeah, super action-packed!

@kelvin: maybe because their storyline similiar? but i love the action in this movie!!

@wil5: hey, nice meeting you too. hmm what do you mean by script? sorry i dont quite understand your question ><

Wil5 said...

O its alright then. What did u use to make your URL become .com instead of .blogspot.com?

von Yvonne said...

@wilfred: i purchase the domain name through blogger :D

Danielle Liew said...

love ur header!

von Yvonne said...

@danielle: thank you! awww such a sweet :D

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