The Tournament

Name: The Tournament
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Released: 2009-05-01T00:00:00.000Z
Rating: 5.946

About The Tournament

Every seven years, in an unsuspecting town, The Tournament takes place. A battle royale between 30 of the world's deadliest assassins.

The Tournament (2009) is a horror thriller film directed by Scott Mann. Released in May 2009, it runs 95 minutes.

Its themes are competition, explosion, fistfight, and death game.

Robert Carlyle takes the lead as Father MacAvoy, Kelly Hu as Lai Lai Zhen, Ian Somerhalder as Miles Slade, and Liam Cunningham as Powers. The screenplay is by Gary Young and Jonathan Frank. In the United States it streams on MovieSphere+ Amazon Channel and Starz Apple TV channel.

DOA: Dead or Alive, The Way of the Dragon, and Undisputed make useful companions to The Tournament, all filed under assassin. TMDB voters put it at 5.9 out of 10 across 698 votes and it carries a R rating.