絶海の孤島に集められた10人の死刑囚。その目的は、制限時間30時間で彼らに殺し合いを行なわせ、それをインターネットで生中継するためだった。ただし、勝ち残った1人には自由が与えられる。こうして、生き残りを賭けた死刑囚同士の死闘が幕を開けるが…。
AIが作品の魅力を深く読み解いています
製作費: $20,000,000 (30億円)
興行収入: $8,600,000 (13億円)
推定収支: $-11,400,000 (-17億円)
※製作費・興行収入はTMDBのデータを参照しています。収支は(興行収入 - 製作費)で算出したFindKey独自の推定値であり、広告宣伝費や諸経費は含まれません (1ドル=150円換算)。
監督: Scott Wiper
脚本: Scott Wiper / Rob Hedden
音楽: グレアム・レヴェル
制作: Graham Ludlow / Joel Simon / Jed Blaugrund
撮影監督: Ross Emery
制作会社: Condemned Productions / Sidestreet Entertainment / WWE Studios / Colossal Entertainment / New Wave Entertainment / Lionsgate
Co-writer/director Scott Wiper overestimated how many people would pay to watch a webcast of ten convicts forced to fight each other to the death on a desert island, same as WWE overestimated how many people would pay to watch a movie about such a webcast. At least the webcast, even with its supposed 30-hour runtime, presumably doesn’t cut away from the action, such as it is, to secondary subplots and tertiary characters not on the island — it's as if Jurassic Park said, "let's go see what's happening some place else where there are no dinosaurs." “Jack Conrad [Steve Austin] is awaiting the death penalty in a corrupt Central American [Salvadoran, to be exact] prison” (IMDb). So corrupt is this prison that Jack would be the first person executed in El Salvador since the early 70s. I don’t know about cruel, but that would certainly be unusual punishment. Jack is spared this fate by Ian Breckel (Robert Mammone), a "billionaire" TV producer, and taken to a desolate island where he must fight to the death against nine other convicted murderers of multiple nationalities. Each has an ankle bracelet/time bomb, complete with the trusty old Red Digital Readout counting down the 30 hours mentioned above. These bombs are the only thing that comes close to 'thinking outside the box', especially since they can be activated by removing a pin; however, the onscreen execution, as it were, leaves a lot to be desired, and even if it were done right, it would still grow old fast, considering that it's the most common method of killing (accounting for 30% of deaths among participants). Worst of all, Wiper unforgivably squanders the opportunity to have one of the characters amputate his own foot and use it as a makeshift grenade grenade (Nathan Jones is also in this movie, because one bald former pro wrestler apparently wasn’t enough).
