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The Condemned (2007)
The Running Man on an island.
This movie isn't great. There's not any particularly good acting and the plot is too simple. You already know who is going to win this game ten minutes into the movie.
A few unexpected twists would have made it a lot better. But after all, it's great drunk/hangover entertainment, when you want some action without a complicated plot.
A lot of people are saying this is a ripoff of Battle Royale, which would be a faulty assumption, because Battle Royale and it's novel is sort of a ripoff of The Running Man, which also was made after a novel (and before that we had The Most Dangerous Game, and before that, the Colosseum).
It's closest to The Running Man, where people also fight in a game show and there's a good guy among them, except they are on an island, not in some underground arena.
If you like the concept "last man standing", this might be entertaining, but if you agree with the people who criticize it, then don't see it. Read a few more reviews before deciding not to see it, though.
Wishmaster (1997)
Entertaining...
This was one of my first horror movies (one of many). I first saw it when I was eleven. Back then it was extremely scary, but now, nine years later, it still had those "peekaboo"-moments.
If you want a scary and well made horror movie with a thrilling plot, this is not something for you. But if you want a gory, humorers and easygoing b-movie, this is just what you are looking for.
Although I usually like extremely complex plots, I also like watching movies with plots a three-year old could come up with - like Wishmaster and most action movies. The heroine is cliché - traumatizing past, strong and willful, protective older sister to an impulsive younger. The djinn is also quite cliché, with his cunning and evil ways. He has "I am not going to succeed in my evil quest to enslave mankind" written all over his face.
The movie is all about gruesome and gory things happening to people. Most things that happen are funny and gory. It's not like those movies that look away when the blade meets the neck - here we see everything, the camera even stays to show us what it looks like afterward.
Entertaining - but not much more.