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Damage [DVD] [2009]
enlarge	Director: Jeff King Actors: Steve 'Stone Cold' Austin, Walton Goggins, Laura Vandervoort Studio: E1 Entertainment Category: DVD List Price: ~~£12.99~~ Buy New: £7.38 as of 23/11/2009 02:37 GMT details You Save: £5.61 (43%) New (12) Used (4) from £7.38 Seller: steve271777882 Rating: 7 reviews Sales Rank: 2415 Format: PAL Language: English (Unknown) Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over Region: 2 Number Of Discs: 1 Running Time: 111 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2 Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6 EAN: 5030305512811 ASIN: B002BIQ9PY Release Date: October 5, 2009 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days


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Customer Reviews: Showing reviews 1-5 of 7 1 2 Next » Better than The Condemned July 28, 2009 Eagle Wizard 4 out of 8 found this review helpful If you liked The Condemned you will love this. Saw this in the States as I am a massive WWF fan and anything with Steve Austin in is a must! Buy it, you won't be disappointed! BETTER THAN EXPECTED............... October 23, 2009 L. Hay (Scotland) 0 out of 1 found this review helpful This movie went straight to DVD in the UK whereas the USA will have to wait until January when it has its airing in the cinemas. br /I was not expecting too much after some of the comments made about it on the IMDB, but I was pleasantly surprised. Steve Austin gives a decent performance as the knuckle fighter, and he is ably supported by a personable and likeable cast. br /The plot is similar to many which seem to have been released during the last couple of years when our hero has to take to underground first fighting. The story line is soppy - Stone Cold taking up the fighting to pay for a heart transplant for a little girl - you had better believe it! Anyway to the important part, there is non-stop action as the Rattlesnake takes on bounce-up after bounce-up in well choreographed action. After each fight he is more and more scarred but seems none the worse of it and actually smiles in the last scene. br /Vinnie Mac was not involved in this production. It is nice to see Steve going for it on his own. br /I thoroughly enjoyed it and it succeeded in keeping my attention; something few films do for me these days. br /Well worth a viewing. I am glad I bought it. Old school remake of AWOL October 8, 2009 D. Lloyd (U.K.) 5 out of 6 found this review helpful If you remember the 80's as a glorious time for straight to video action movies, and find the endless noughties quest to add social comment, wire-fu, CGI, and 'shakey cam', a little unnecessary, then this movie will be a breath of nostalgic air. br /What you have here, is a film that pretty much takes the structure of Van Damme's AWOL (aka Lionheart), and fine tunes it with a bit more subtext than Van Damme could have handled at that stage in his career. Steve Austin gives a suprisingly subtle and convincing 'blue collar' performance, managing to imbue his character with a real likeability. He is ably supported by a solid cast, including Laura Vandervoort as an ex tart with a heart, and Waylon Goggins, who suprisingly, gives the weakest performance in the movie. br /The fight's are solid, no nonsense affairs, owing more to the 'Any which way' movies than peers such as Undisputed 2 or Never Back Down, and are no worse for it. Austin sells a mean punch, and the basic but brutal choreography fits the low-rent barenuckle environment very well. It is no accident that the big finish is against a champ who looks like Kimbo Slice. br /It obviously has a smaller budget than 'The Condemned' (and is not a wwe produced movie), but Austin gives a much better performance, and shows that, given stronger material, he could, like the Dwayne Johnson, escape the wrestling tag, and become seen as an actor in his own right. Stone Cold Delivers October 9, 2009 S. Clarke (Bordon, UK) 3 out of 4 found this review helpful This is a half decent movie let down by fight choreography that lacks realism, and editing which tries to disguise these failings with fast cuts away from the action. The story and script is okay, nothing especially original but sometimes it's best to stick with what works when it comes to the fight genre; but in fairness it does have a stab at creating a serious plot to give reason to the violence and this does come through as the film progresses. The fights are made interesting by a number of unconventional backdrops including a ring of savage dogs! Steve Austen is quite sincere in his role, creating a character the viewer roots for. This is much better than the other recent fight movie: Never Surrender. As long as you don't expect too much, you'll enjoy this movie but your thirst for action probably won't be fully quenched. Austin's second go-round is another old school action movie... October 17, 2009 Matthew Mercy (Wigan, England) 0 out of 1 found this review helpful In his second leading movie role, former WWE legend Stone Cold Steve Austin plays John Brickner, an ex-convict whose attempts to live a quiet life on the outside are thrown into jeopardy when he is forced into the shadowy world of illegal fighting. Though his acting skills are somewhat limited, Austin is perfectly adequate as the star of this low-key action drama; just don't expect anything groundbreaking from the execution or basic set-up. Like Austin's previous vehicle (WWE Films' The Condemned), this basically just adheres to an established action movie template (this time the `inspiration' is the old Jean-Claude Van Damme effort AWOL), and goes through the motions of its familiar plot in an unfussy and unsurprising way. The direction is unspectacular, the fight scenes efficient but not particularly brutal, and the final result is a film that is nowhere near bad enough to despise, but nowhere near good enough to be memorable. The supporting performances are largely annonymous, though Walton Goggins (sporting the same ghastly brown leather jacket he wore as Shane Vendrell across all seven seasons of The Shield) makes the best of a badly-written part as Brickner's debt-ridden manager. Showing reviews 1-5 of 7 1 2 Next »

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