Synopsis
Terminal Island, New York: 2020. Overcrowding in the US penal system has reached a breaking point. Prisons have been turned over to a monolithic Weyland Corporation, which sees jails full of thugs as an opportunity for televised sport. Adrenalized inmates, a global audience hungry for violence and a spectacular, enclosed arena come together to form the 'Death Race', the biggest, most brutal event.
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Cast
- Jason StathamJensen Ames
- Joan AllenWarden Hennessey
- Ian McShaneCoach
- Tyrese GibsonMachine Gun Joe Mason
- Natalie MartinezElizabeth Case
- Max RyanPachenko
- Jason ClarkeGuard Ulrich
- Frederick KoehlerLists
- Jacob VargasGunner
- Justin MaderTravis Colt
Recommendations
- 75
Chicago Tribune
Nothing in director Paul W.S. Anderson's schlock drawer--prepares you for the peppy, good-time nastiness that is Death Race. - 75
TV Guide Magazine
It honestly delivers the goods without all the preachy moralizing about violent entertainment and cultural ruin. - 67
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
This new version has absolutely none of the distinctive tongue-in-cheek black humor that was the keynote of its model and the trademark of its original director, Paul Bartel. - 63
ReelViews
This movie is about mayhem on wheels, tough guys viewers can root for, and villains whose comeuppances audiences crave. That's what Death Race is all about and, for what it is, it does a solid job. - 58
The A.V. Club
It's the perfect end-of-summer film, and a sign that summer needs to end soon. - 38
Charlotte Observer
OK, so no plot, really. - 30
Washington Post
It isn't so much a movie as a superheated, highly conductive miracle substance for the pure transmission of masculine aggression and misogyny. - 20
L.A. Weekly
With its inexplicably watchable shotgun-riding bimbos, unconscious homoeroticism and "Shawshank Redemption" ending, The Fast and the Frivolous here is almost so bad it's good. Almost...
