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The Tournament: Directed by Scott Mann. With Robert Carlyle, Kelly Hu, Ian Somerhalder, Liam Cunningham. A tournament is watched by dozens of wealthy men betting on which one of the 30 assassins will survive the next 24 hours "kill or die" and claim the USD10,000,000 prize.
The Tournament is a 2009 British independent action thriller film, [3] marking the directorial debut of Scott Mann. The film was conceived by Jonathan Frank and Nick Rowntree while at the University of Teesside with Mann.
Every ten years, in an unsuspecting town, The Tournament takes place. A battle royale between 30 of the world's deadliest assassins. The last man standing receives the $10,000,000 cash prize and the title of World's No. 1 Assassin, which itself carries the legendary million dollar-a-bullet price tag.
A 2009 straight to DVD film starring Robert Carlyle, Kelly Hu, and Ving Rhames, The Tournament is a game in a similar vein to Battle Royale - the characters are clearly drawn from both it and imitation The Condemned (2007). The Tournament itself is an event staged every seven years.
Top assassins (Ian Somerhalder, Robert Carlyle, Ving Rhames) gather for a competition where the last one alive wins a cash prize.
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The Tournament opens with Ving Rhames body-surfing across a pool of blood to blow a man’s head apart with an industrial bolt gun. The Tournament ends with a vehicular crashfest between a bus and gas tanker while Kelly Hu karate-fights Casino Royale’s parkour assassin inside said bus.
