He's known as "the man who will not die", but he actually died in the last race. The reason they need Jenson is the champion is a very popular fella called Frankenstein, who wears a metal mask. Why? Because he used to be a racing driver, and the brains behind Death Race, Warden Hennessey (Joan Allen), knows Jensen will send the ratings soaring if he ends up in the prison. He's happily married and a proud father - until he's fitted up for the murder of his wife.
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With prison numbers at an all time high in the future, the powers-that-be find a clever way to keep numbers down - make convicts kill each other!Ĭue a high-rating telly show where the cons take part in a "death race" - imagine stock car racing with added machine guns, and where the winner walks free and the loser walks through the Pearly Gates.Īnd into this world strays hard-working, honest steelmill worker Jensen Ames (Jason Statham, looking like a puzzled Johnny Vaughan).
Well, I'm not looking forward to the rest of this film coming true. Gosh, imagine how terrible it would be if that really happened.
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Well, instead we've got unreliable wireless internet, credit card fraud, and countless amounts of spam email offering us sexual operations.īut it's a rare movie that looks into the future and comes up with something that, er, we've already got.ĭeath Race opens with the titles: 2012 - The United States economy collapses. I love it when movies look into the future and get it totally wrong.īlade Runner, Back To The Future, 2001AD, Robocop - they said we'd have robot servants, spacehouses and hover-cars.
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