Jack Conrad is awaiting the death penalty in a corrupt Central American prison. He is “purchased” by a wealthy television producer and taken to a desolate island where he must fight to the death against nine other condemned killers from all corners of the world, with freedom going to the sole survivor.
Credits: TheMovieDb.
Film Cast:
- Conrad: Steve Austin
- McStarley: Vinnie Jones
- Breckel: Robert Mammone
- Julie: Tory Mussett
- Sarah Cavanaugh: Madeleine West
- ‘Goldy’ Goldman: Rick Hoffman
- Special Agent Wilkins: Sullivan Stapleton
- Paco: Manu Bennett
- Eddie C: Christopher James Baker
- Bella: Sam Healy
- Baxter: Luke Pegler
- Saiga: Masa Yamaguchi
- Yasantwa: Emelia Burns
- Kreston Mackie: Marcus Johnson
- Petr: Nathan Jones
- Rosa: Dasi Ruz
- The German: Andy McPhee
- The Italian: Rai Fazio
- Donna Sereno: Angie Milliken
- Moyer: Grant Piro
- Lyle: Andrew Buchanan
- Wade Meranto: Neil Pigot
- Wilkin’s Assistant: Jacy Lewis
- Belarus Convict #3: John Walton
- Baxter Guard #2: Steve Morris
Film Crew:
- Music: Graeme Revell
- Foley Supervisor: Bob Beher
- Executive Producer: Peter Block
- Executive Producer: Jason Constantine
- Editor: Derek Brechin
- Producer: Joel Simon
- Director of Photography: Ross Emery
- Executive Producer: Vince McMahon
- Executive Producer: John Sacchi
- Executive Producer: Jed Blaugrund
- Art Direction: Richard Hobbs
- Production Design: Graham ‘Grace’ Walker
- Second Unit Director: Mark Wareham
- Screenplay: Rob Hedden
- Digital Intermediate Assistant: Doug Delaney
- Stunt Coordinator: Glenn Ruehland
- Director: Scott Wiper
- Executive Producer: Michael Lake
- Foley Artist: Joan Rowe
- Foley Artist: Sean Rowe
- ADR Recordist: Rick Canelli
- ADR Editor: Mark L. Mangino
- Sound Effects Editor: Steve Bissinger
- Makeup Supervisor: Margaret Stevenson
- Post Production Supervisor: Nancy Hirami
- Stunt Coordinator: Greg Stuart
- Visual Effects Camera: Matt Sloan
- Foley Mixer: Ryan Maguire
- Casting: Tom McSweeney
- Costume Consultant: Phil Eagles
- Costume Assistant: Shane Phillips
- Casting Associate: Samantha Strauss
- Extras Casting: Fiona McMaster
- Costume Standby: Roberta Shaw
- Epk Camera Operator: Damien Beebe
- Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Gregory H. Watkins
- Dialogue Editor: Avram D. Gold
- Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Tim LeBlanc
- Sound Effects Editor: Jeremy Peirson
- Construction Coordinator: Bill Booth
- Makeup & Hair: Kym Sainsbury
- Set Designer: Paula Whiteway
- Steadicam Operator: Greg Gilbert
- Supervising Sound Editor: Christopher S. Aud
- ADR Mixer: Michael Thompson
- Sound Effects Editor: David Werntz
- Still Photographer: Vince Valitutti
- Dialogue Editor: Benjamin Beardwood
- Sound Effects Editor: Rickley W. Dumm
- Music Editor: Ashley Revell
- Assistant Art Director: Jim Millett
- Additional Camera: Calum McFarlane
- Script Supervisor: Antoinette O’Neill
- Makeup & Hair: Anita Morgan
- Foley Editor: Bruce Tanis
- ADR Supervisor: Lisa J. Levine
- Visual Effects Supervisor: Dave Morley
- Visual Effects Producer: Kent Boswell
- Makeup & Hair: Anita Lowe
- Production Manager: Jennifer Cornwell
- Property Master: Bob Booker
- Art Department Coordinator: Suzie Freeman
- Art Department Coordinator: Natalie Taylor
- Greensman: Matt Jordin
- Scenic Artist: Nick Walker
- Sound Recordist: Paul ‘Salty’ Brincat
- Visual Effects Producer: Julian Parry
- VFX Supervisor: Gary Keir
- Camera Operator: Butch Sawko
- Camera Operator: Ian ‘Thistle’ Thorburn
- Additional Camera: Henry Pierce
- Gaffer: Matt Slattery
- Best Boy Electric: Stephen Head
- Machinist: Susan Booth
- Machinist: Janine Bray
- First Assistant Editor: Stephen Shapiro
- Transportation Coordinator: Jamie Whitfield
- Picture Car Coordinator: Darren Loveday
- Location Manager: Scott Stewart
- Script Supervisor: Chris O’Connell
- Location Manager: Jamie McLennan
- Publicist: Fiona Searson
- Production Accountant: Toni Pearson
- Chief Lighting Technician: Mick O’Brien
- Dolby Consultant: Bryan Pennington
- ADR Editor: Joe Dorn
- Prosthetic Supervisor: Jason Baird
- Digital Compositor: Jason Billington
- Associate Producer: Richard Lowell
- Costume Standby: Amanda Enders
- Second Unit First Assistant Director: Darwin Brooks
- Prop Maker: Kristin Reuter
- First Assistant Director: Jamie Crooks
- Storyboard Artist: Graeme Callander
- Music Programmer: Boris Elkis
- Armorer: Jeff Gribble
- Boom Operator: Rod Conder
- Music Supervisor: Neil A. Lawi
- Makeup & Hair: Gail Kane
- Armorer: Allan Mowbray
- Key Grip: Toby Copping
- Best Boy Grip: Andy Smith
- Production Secretary: Jasmin Lyford
- Construction Foreman: Noel McCartney
- Standby Painter: Tom Brkich
- Key Grip: Benn Hyde
- Lighting Technician: Jesse Moyes
- Digital Compositor: Craig Rowe
- Head Greensman: Ron Wallekers
- Electrician: Phil Mulligan
- Costume Standby: Helen Maggs
- Electrician: Mark Bills
- Second Assistant Director: Angella McPherson
- Production Coordinator: Kerry Mulgrew
- Special Effects Technician: Julian Summers
- Dialogue Coach: Bruce Shapiro
- Color Timer: Bob Fredrickson
- Electrician: Russell Lyons
- ADR Mixer: Thomas J. O’Connell
- Focus Puller: Daniel Clark
- Digital Intermediate: Annalise Kurinsky
- Additional Editor: Mandy Jacobs
- Assistant Sound Editor: Stephanie Brown
- Second Assistant “B” Camera: Paul Seipel
- Construction Manager: Andrew Gardiner
- Electrician: Boo Slattery
- Set Painter: Katrina Bull
- Systems Administrators & Support: Luke Cole
- Digital Compositor: Matt Greig
- Visual Effects Coordinator: Sophie Carroll
- Prop Maker: Tony Voevodin
- Payroll Accountant: Rachel Duxbury
- Production Secretary: Kelly Weiler
- Special Effects Technician: Patrick Carmiggelt
- Digital Compositor: Koji Yamaguchi
- Focus Puller: Margie McClymont
- Casting Assistant: Abdul-Majeed Moulvi
- Co-Producer: Mara Jacobs
- Assistant Editor: Geoff Lamb
- Assistant Property Master: Emile Oliver
- Modeling: Grant Warwick
- Executive Producer: Michael Gruber
- Co-Producer: John Bonneau
- Executive Producer: George Vrabeck
- Co-Producer: Matt Walden
- First Assistant “B” Camera: Jason Binnie
- Costume Supervisor: Joanne Wilson
- Prop Maker: Barry Thompson
- First Assistant “A” Camera: Adrien Seffrin
- Executive Producer: Graham Ludlow
- Digital Compositor: Tate Arbon
- Digital Compositor: Chris Davies
- Makeup & Hair: Maree Stuartt
- Prosthetics: Karen Grose
- Additional Hairstylist: Jacqui Deacon
- Carpenter: Ray Chapman
- Carpenter: Stephen Longson
- Carpenter: Trevor Spann
- Construction Foreman: Chris Turner
- Clapper Loader: Riki Byrne
- Clapper Loader: Aaron Smith
- Dolly Grip: Matthew Copping
- Electrician: Peter Critchley
- Electrician: Craig Perkins
- Electrician: Nick Sowter
- Grip: Michael Carl Smith
- Lighting Technician: Julian Filer
- Lighting Technician: Scott Hamilton
- Lighting Technician: Richard Riwaka
- Lighting Technician: Andrew Shir
- Second Assistant “A” Camera: Brendan Shambrook
- Digital Compositor: Dexter Davey
- Digital Compositor: Matthew Hermans
- Digital Compositor: Liam Neville
- Digital Compositor: Murray Smallwood
- Digital Compositor: Matthew Wynne
- Digital Effects Supervisor: Gary Sullivan
- Digital Intermediate Colorist: Lou Levinson
- Digital Intermediate: David Donaldson
- Main Title Designer: Mark Rakocy
- Matte Painter: Nicole Papax
- Modeling: Marc Tingle
- Systems Administrators & Support: Danielle Hession
- Telecine Colorist: Simon Clark
- Title Designer: Ricardo Navarro
- Special Effects Technician: Peter Exton
- VFX Artist: Tim Sotiri
- Prosthetic Makeup Artist: Brett Beacham
- Editorial Production Assistant: Kyle M. Brechin
- Music Supervisor: Jim Johnston
- Post Production Accountant: Debbie Gilbert
- Production Assistant: Jason Rowling
- Production Coordinator: Cindy Gollagher
- Production Runner: Julian Bungate
- Best Boy Grip: Paul Murphy
- Video Assist Operator: Michael Mier
Movie Reviews:
- tmdb28039023: 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).