Scott Mann’s “The Tournament” looks and feels like an ‘90s action movie, the kind that relies on an overly simplified premise that is supposed to pass for a storyline, but is really just an excuse for a whole lot of wanton bloodshed. Mind you, not that that’s a bad thing. In this case, it just...

In “The Tournament”, Robert Carlyle plays a small-town priest who gets unwittingly dragged into a bloody tournament taking place covertly in his town. Okay, it’s not all that covert, there are guys running around with sniper rifles and bazookas trying to off each other. Actually, it’s...

Scott Mann’s “The Tournament” reminds me a lot of those drive-by action films from the ’80s and ’90s, where the story is really just a flimsy excuse to throw an endless barrage of action sequences at the audience and, in general, blow shit up. Hey, not that that’s...

Kelly Hu, Ving Rhames, and Scott Adkins play assassins that, along with 27 others, descend upon an unsuspecting town to engage in a battle royale where the last one standing leaves with $10 million in prize money. For some reason, the filmmakers thought it would be a good idea to introduce a priest played...

Haven’t heard a whole lot about Scott Mann’s “The Tournament” since we posted a lengthy teaser video for the movie mid-2007. Well the latest is that the film’s official site has posted some stills from the movie, including our first look at Kelly Hu (who was not in the video,...

The more I hear about the upcoming movie “The Tournament”, the more I’m convinced it could be really good or really average. To be honest with you, the premise sounds more than a little “B-Movie” territory to me. It reminds me of the ’90s, when indie producers would...