Death Race

1hr 29min - Rated R

Movie: Action Fantasy Thriller

Death Race

Director

  • Paul W.S. Anderson

Cast

  • Frederick Koehler
  • Ian McShane
  • Jacob Vargas
  • Jason Statham
  • Joan Allen
  • Max Ryan
  • Natalie Martinez
  • Robert LaSardo
  • Robin Shou
  • Tyrese Gibson

Writers

  • Charles Griffith
  • Ib Melchior
  • Paul W.S. Anderson
  • Robert Thom

About This Movie

Terminal Island: The very near future. The world's hunger for extreme sports and reality competitions has grown into reality TV bloodlust. Now, the most extreme racing competition has emerged and its contestants are murderous prisoners. Tricked-out cars, caged thugs and smoking-hot navigators combine to create a juggernaut series with bigger ratings than the Super Bowl. The rules of the Death Race are simple: Win five events, and you're set free. Lose and you're road kill splashed across the Internet. Three-time speedway champion Jensen Ames is an ex-con framed for a gruesome murder. Forced to don the mask of the mythical driver Frankenstein, a Death Race crowd favorite who seems impossible to kill, Ames is given an easy choice by Terminal Island's ruthless Warden Hennessey: Suit up and drive or never see his little girl again. His face hidden by a hideous mask, one convict will enter an insane three-day challenge in order to gain freedom. But to claim the prize, Ames must survive a gauntlet of the most vicious criminals--including nemesis Machine Gun Joe--in the country's toughest prison. Trained by his coach to drive a monster Mustang V8 Fastback outfitted with two mounted mini-guns, flamethrowers and napalm, an innocent man will destroy everything in his path to win the most twisted spectator sport on Earth.


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movies.nytimes.com

“Death Race” is a supercharged junkyard apocalypse powered by an unabashed relish for brutal comeuppance and a flair for delirious vehicular mayhem. (movies.nytimes.com)

rogerebert.com

"Death Race" (R, /// minutes). Hitchcock said a movie should play the audience like a piano. "Death Race" played me like a drum. It is an assault o... (rogerebert.com)

salon.com

Spectacular crashes, thunderous explosions, heads split open like watermelons -- and one killer body. (salon.com)

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Jeremy Franklin-Ross

Death Race

Movie: Action, Fantasy, Thriller
Comment by: Jeremy Franklin-Ross

best movie of 2008?

very possibly.