Death Race

Makes the Transporter series looks like Hot Wheels and War looks like child's play!

Armed with adequate muscle, heavily armed vehicles and hot butt chicks, director Paul Anderson is about to blow your mind away with the hype elite combination of what gives to be a rather unique mode and fashion of car-racing.

A highly skilled underground racer Jensen Ames (Jason Statham) is falsely convicted of murdering his wife and sent to a high security prison in which a daunting task awaits his remaining fate that will decide his freedom. Meekly, such a consequence would prove to no avail when he begins to find out exactly what he is to find out very soon. Lying in the deep dungeon of that very hell-hole, is the chief of the prison, Hennessey (Joan Allen) who decides the fate of all her down-right ugly and brute inmates (consisting of rapists and murderers). And the way the movie puts it, the irony as a fact, the dark belly of the dungeon bears a significant secret which kept the prisoners' spirit alive throughout their course of imprisonment.

Colloquially termed as the Death Race, these prisoners are given a chance to redeem their freedom; by first participating in the race itself, which allows the inmates to brutalize, kill, burn and twist each other's fate into peril and death. Consisting of three dangerous stages, the racer has to prove his worth by winning in an impossible five races. The film remarks on the four time champion bogeyman Frankenstein - to which his face is so badly scarred that he would need a mask to keep it away from his fans - and rewinds back to his latest victory (the fourth) that saw him lying in the infirmary with relentless amounts of fractures. Given the chance of his lifetime, Hennessey took no delay in identifying her latest addition to the inmates, Ames, and drew his attention to be Frankenstein by putting up that mask and winning that very last race.

The side plot of course, which will be revealed over time, entails the fact that the races, all three stages together, are being broad-casted live to all the citizens of America; and hence garnering enough moolah and fame for Hennessey. Plus, to keep that encounter coming and the fans' wish and desire to see Frank on the race-track, she had to ensure that very one thing - and that is to prevent Frank from finishing the race, but ensuring that he persist on. And that shows the eagerness on how Hennessey would like to see the man behind the mask dead and then to replace him with another person viable and capable enough to man the wheel.

For all she knows, she chose the wrong man for the job this time around, by first sending out an inmate to kill Ames' wife and then falsifying the blame on him, which ended his fate in jail. Putting him behind the wheel, or so she thought, would be just another day job to grant everyone's wishes to see Frank racing again amongst the other equally brutal drivers known to man. With the line up of Machine Gun Joe as the three time champion (Tyrese Gibson), 14K (Robin Shou), Pachenko (Max Ryan), Grimm (Robert LaSardo), Travis Colt (Justin Mader) and other unnamed drivers, the show is set to appeal their own remarkable sick and gory behavior in and within the compounds of the race.

To get the job polished up, Hennessey introduced the new Frank to the experienced 'Coach' (Ian McShane) and his team consisting of mechanic Ulrich (Jason Clarke) and know-it-all Lists (Frederick Koehler) to aid in his campaign in winning the race. Played alongside Ames, is his sexy bosom navigator, Case (Natalie Martinez), giving the show an even higher possible rating for its sex appeal.

Aside from the interesting British accent put up by Jason Statham as he always does in all his movies, you couldn't help but admire his usual calm look as he lives up to the action scenes in this movie. Aside from that, Joan Allen put up a remarkable acting performance as well by making you feel at the end of the show, how you want her dead. Now, if you'd felt that, the movie's got into you and she's got into you. And that's really what we want to see in any action movie which gives time to mold the characters instead of just any bland type of firings and bombings.

The action scenes involving massive massacre of each other on and off the race-track with their variable methods of weaponry and their own arsenal of missiles and guns are heavy enough to keep you on your seats. The sole thing that I liked about the way it is crafted is that the action kept on hitting the screen from every angle when it reached its peak and it further pounds in the nail by introducing new things which by the way, surprises! Perhaps the part that I liked best is that it is being assimilated much the same way as how a video game would look like, by running a car across a floor button which grants the driver the ability to go offensive or defensive against their arch-rivals.

And if you were to compare this to Transporter 2, this addition of Death Race is far more believable in terms of how the cars manipulate themselves and brings on the hard core grilling effect. No such and such of how cars could fly off from a raised ground and twists to rid off the bomb from its base; this movie fix its audience eyes on how these inmates fight and race their lives off in this merciless death race.

So partake yourself in this ruthless, atrocious, sadistic and beastly race as you witness for yourselves how inmates are being treated like yet another garbage; as they get smoked into thin air, crushed into pancakes, thrown into a million pieces, napalmed to kingdom come and literally grind to bloody bits.

Movie Rating:- 7/10