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So anyway, Ames is transferred to Terminal Island penitentiary, home of the infamous Death Race. Mostly because it supports my narrative and I like to pretend I know what IвЂ™m talking about.

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This whole murder sub-plot is pointless and stupid and reeks of studio fuckery, it doesnвЂ™t fit in with the tone of the rest of the movie and just feels like somebody said вЂњbut whatвЂ™s his motivation to win the death race, what if he was doing it to rescue his infant daughter?вЂќ Every scene referencing this angle seems like it was spliced in after late-stage reshoots and though I have no proof of this whatsoever, itвЂ™s the version of reality IвЂ™m embracing. This would be enough to send him to prison but he escapes somehow and comes home to his wife who is then murdered by a masked man who frames him for her death. When he gets laid off from his steel mill job (presumably so there could be more derelict industrial architecture to race steel-plated cars through) he fights with the SWAT team.

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So our hero is Jensen Ames, race car driver and two-fisted thug with a priggish Jason Statham-y accent, a priggish Jason Statham-y attitude, and a priggish Jason Statham-y face. At times I question what the man is thinking but it is my genuine belief that Anderson knows exactly how hilariously over-serious the plot of Death Race is. Predator, and Resident Evil arenвЂ™t quite as awful as their reputations state (IвЂ™m not an apologist for any of them but theyвЂ™re capable late-night cable actioners) and Event Horizon and Soldier are genuinely great films, he produced a lot of shitty movies and hasnвЂ™t made a good one since Death Race.

The audience could be forgiven for thinking the movie isnвЂ™t in on the joke considering where director/screenwriter Paul W.S.

Powers ups, special attacks, thereвЂ™s even a boss battle! And still people claim the movie is over-serious and grimdark. In the second race the racers have to face off with a massive armored semi-truck bristling with heavy artillery and the vehicles all even have a special weapon unique to them. These weapons are unlocked by running over massive plates on the track with swords or shields on them, there are also plates with skulls on them that summon environmental hazards. The cars are all heavily armored with big machine guns mounted on the hoods for offensive capabilities and oil, smoke, and napalm dispensers for defense. The film portrays the death race as an underground sporting event pitting convicted murderers in a race to the death in a prison environment.

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Death Race on the other hand borrows from something a little bit more contemporary, itвЂ™s pulling from video games, most noticeably the car-battle series Twisted Metal. Death Race 2000 was a cartoon, seemingly pulling a lot of inspiration from Hanna-Barberra shorts from the вЂ™60s and early вЂ™70s, most noticeably The Wacky Races. While Death Race certainly skews a lot more straight-faced than Death Race 2000вЂ™s manic bubblegum tone, itвЂ™s absolutely aware of what it is. Now the popular opinion of this film is that itвЂ™s complete garbage, the archetype of the tone-deaf вЂ™00s era remake that attempts to capture the cheap thrills of a beloved cult film whilst entirely missing the point. WhatвЂ™s surprising about Death Race is that it took so long, IвЂ™m really surprised thereвЂ™s not a Death Race movie made in 1996 with Wings Hauser and Frank Stallone. This was a man who made a shitty low-rent remake of Piranha, even though he was the one who made the first one. That a Death Race 2000 remake happened is no real surprise, if thereвЂ™s one thing Roger Corman is famous for itвЂ™s milking a dollar. Death Race is born.вЂќ -opening text scrawl. But like the mob of Ancient Rome, the modern audience soon becomes bored. They are the new Gladiators and Terminal Island is their Coliseum.

Prisoners fight to the death, creating a ratings sensation. Terminal Island Penitentiary streams a series of cage fights live on the internet.

Private corporations now run all correction facilities for profit. The prison system reaches a breaking point. вЂњ2012 вЂ“ The United States economy collapses. Jason Statham (Jensen Ames), Joan Allen (Hennessey), Ian McShane (Coach), Tyrese Gibson (Machine Gun Joe), Natalie Martinez (Case), Max Ryan (Pachenko), Jason Clarke (Ulrich), Fred Koehler (Lists), Justin Mader (Travis Colt), Robert LaSardo (Grimm), Robin Shou (14K), David Carradine (Frankenstein)