The rest of the field is your Hollywood assortment of stereotypes - an Arab, an Asian, assorted tattooed sociopaths, and Machine Gun Joe ( Tyrese Gibson), a homicidal homosexual who had better not hear all the gay bashing from the other inmates. It's about the cleavage.Īmes is persuaded to don the mask of a popular dead driver, "Frankenstein," and race in his stead. "Swords" turn on the guns.Īnd there's a "navigator," a pretty female inmate. You drive over manhole covers that are like video game icons "shields" activate your defense mechanisms. They have James Bond-style oil slick/smoke-screen defense gadgets. The vehicles are armed with machine guns and the like. Those ropes? A three-day race through the ruined warehouses, factories and docks of Terminal Island in self-modified muscle cars: Mustangs, Ram trucks, Chrysler 300s, Porsches. He's the old car mechanic who shows the new guy the ropes. "In here, she is judge, jury and executioner," the grizzled Coach ( Ian McShane) tells Ames. "The life term you've shown up for may be shorter than you think," she growls.ĭon't cross the lady in the high-higher-highest heels. The ruthless warden is given an icy Nurse Ratched turn by Joan Allen. And there he's given the choice - drive, or else. He winds up on Terminal Island, the prison where the worst of the worst are held. Jason "Stick Shift" Statham is Jensen Ames, an ex-driver framed for his wife's murder. It's the best idea Anderson has ever had. Anderson, director of video-game adaptations such as Resident Evil, re-imagines this cars-and-carnage thriller as a video game come to life, with convicts racing and killing each other for their freedom.
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Of all the Z-movies in the Roger Corman catalog, they had to remake Death Race 2000.īut if the original Death Race, with its murderous road rally drivers who take down pedestrians for "points," seemed darkly prophetic when it came out back in 1975, the new one feels ripped from the pages of tomorrow's TV Guide.
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