Death Race

Written on September 1, 2008 by CincauHangus

It’s been a while since I wrote a movie review..

I’m a guy who loves cars & car chasing scenes, guns, and more firepower. What other movie that could glue me to the seat besides Die Hard 4?

Death Race is the movie.

Jason Statham is a familiar face when it comes to cars and guns. The Transporter was a good no brainer fast paced gun blazing. But the only thing missing in that movie was the synergy of both guns and cars.

Death Race has that synergy.

Imagine a 2006 Ford Mustang GT with a gattling gun mounted in front and huge steel plate mounted at the back for defense.

FUN!

Statham plays Jensen Ames, a decent man in love with his wife and baby girl. But the factory where he works is shut down, and a masked intruder not only kills his wife but sets Jensen up to take the fall. Jensen’s shipped off to the local private prison, where the warden, Hennessey (Joan Allen), has been running a little side business where she pits convicts against each other in a no-holds-barred competition called Death Race where criminals race cars bristling with weapons and ammo. Win five races, you’re released. Die on the track, well, that’s just the kind of thing the audience is tuning in for. But ratings have been slipping since the race that sidelined the legendary masked racer Frankenstein. The audience doesn’t know that Frankenstein is dead, so Hennessy asks Jensen to take the part over. Frankenstein has four wins under his belt, so if Jensen wins one more, he’s free.

Although this Death Race movie has the same name as the 1975’s Death Race 2000 and the same name (Frankenstein) as the main role, it has a totally different story line from the older one where in the older movie racers earns points by running over human beings to win the race.