Death Race is a travesty of the original film but it
delivers enough explosions, violence and vroom-vroom
action to ensure that it remains entertaining if you
leave your brain in neutral.
A Corman-sanctioned remake of his 1975 original, Death Race is directed by Paul WS Anderson and stars Jason Statham as Jensen Ames, an ex-con-slash-racecar driver who finds himself framed for murder and sent to a high-security prison run by Warden Hennessey (Joan Allen). The reason for his frame-up soon becomes apparent, as Ames is forced to don the mask of the mythical driver Frankenstein and compete for his life in a televised, high-speed, no-holds-barred Death Race, orchestrated by the Warden and run from behind the prison walls, with the heavily-armoured cars all packing serious weaponry.
Death Race is watchable enough for a Friday night action movie, but it's nowhere near as much fun as the original.
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