Death Race

Get ready for a killer ride.

Some time in the future, a prison warden (Joan Allen) tells a convict (Jason Statham) that if he wins a deadly car race on the premises he will gain his freedom. The 1975 action movie Death Race 2000 gets the Paul W.S. Anderson treatment – that means a lot of noise and a grim futuristic setting. Competently made and entertaining up to a point. Unfortunately, you know what’s going to happen at every turn of the story and the talents of Allen and Ian McShane are wasted.

2008-U.S. 105 min. Color. Widescreen. Written and directed by Paul W.S. Anderson. Cast: Jason Statham (Jensen Ames), Joan Allen (Hennessey), Ian McShane (Coach), Tyrese Gibson, Natalie Martinez, Max Ryan.

Trivia: Co-executive produced by Roger Corman. David Carradine, who played Frankenstein in the original movie, does the voice of this new Frankenstein.

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Published 16 October 2008

Remember This?

“Republic. I like the sound of that word. It means people can live free, talk free, go or come, buy or sell, be drunk or sober, however they choose. Some words give you a feeling. Republic is one of those words that makes me tight in the throat.”

John Wayne as Davy Crockett (The Alamo, 1960)