MOVIE DEATH RACE - Get ready for a killer ride

Death Race Movie Synopsis
In 2012, the United States economy collapses and life for everyone is not the same. Once a NASCAR champion, Jensen Ames, (Jason Statham), hits rock bottom and spent several years in prison. Just as he thinks he has turned his life around, the ex-con is framed for a gruesome murder he didn’t commit. His life was improving and changing for the better after meeting and marrying Suzy (Janaya Stephens) and having a baby girl. Then the steel mill closes, and he loses his job. But that was not the worst thing to happen to Jenson that day. Suzy is brutally murdered, and he is framed for her murder. Jenson is sent to Terminal Island, the worst and toughest for-profit prison in the country run by Warden Hennessey (Joan Allen). She has created the country’s most popular pay-per-view sport, a kill-or-be-killed car race where the inmates race to win their freedom from prison after 5 wins. Every inmate driver is driving a monster car that they built which is loaded with machine guns, missiles, flamethrowers, napalm, and no rules. Ames must survive a gauntlet of the most vicious criminals in the country’s toughest prison to claim the prize of freedom. Driving a monster car outfitted with machine guns, flamethrowers and grenade launchers, one desperate man will destroy anything in his path to win the most twisted spectator sport on Earth. If Jensen wins just one race, he can go home to his baby daughter. To get to the finish line, Jensen must kill his competition before they kill him.

Death Race Movie Review

• Death Race sounds as appealing as rehashed roadkill. But shock of shocks (or shlock of shlocks, rather), this Death Race doles out disreputable damage with such bone-crushing, heavy-metal conviction that you can almost smell the napalm, nitro and diesel fumes. A movie review By JAm! Movies

• Nothing in director Paul W.S. Anderson’s schlock drawer — not “Mortal Kombat,” not “Event Horizon,” not “Resident Evil,” not “Alien vs. Predator” — prepares you for the peppy, good-time nastiness that is “Death Race.” It’s a loose remake of “Death Race 2000″ (1975), which imagined a bloodthirsty nation crazy for a cross-country rally full of flying, dying spectators and ruthlessly sociopathic drivers, not to mention Mary Woronov as the most fearsome thing on four wheels. A movie review By Michael Phillips

• The original Death Race 2000 was a low-budget Roger Corman vehicle set in the near future (for the 70s, anyway) where a cross-country road race has become the national pastime. With America having been transformed into a fascist police state, the “Death Race” allowed drivers to kill one another if possible, and also to score points by running over pedestrians. A movie review By Odd Culture review

Death Race Movie Critic

• But like so much else in Death Race, this detail is sloppily ignored whenever the story or action conveniently requires it. Since 2000 was dumb on its face, Bartel played it for camp; Anderson (whose other futuristic, effects-heavy exercises include Resident Evil and Alien vs. Predator), unfortunately, tries playing it straight. Three race setpieces, styled as an “American Gladiators”-meets-”Ice Road Truckers” TV show, are the pic’s main events, and Anderson trains all his firepower with a numbing assault of quick cuts, hyperactive zooms, closeups of crashes and mega-explosions, lathered with a metal score by ex-Tangerine Dream member Paul Haslinger. A movie critic by Variety Staff

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Death Race Movie Data Information
Movie Title : Death Race
Tagline : Get ready for a killer ride
Director : Paul W.S. Anderson
Writer : Paul W.S. Anderson
Movie Released : 25 August 2008 (UK),22 August 2008 (USA)
Movie Genre : Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Plot Keywords: Escape From Prison | Laid Off | Filmed Killing | Ejection Seat | Exploding Body
Cast: Jason Statham, Tyrese Gibson, Ian McShane, Joan Allen, Natalie Martinez

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