Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Death Race


Death Race is an action film directed and written by Paul W. S. Anderson. It is the 1975 film Death Race 2000 remake that is base on the short story “The Racer” of Ib Malchoir that is starred by Jason Statham on the lead role.
The economy of the United States has fallen into disaster within four years from 2008, and for profit, many private corporation run most prisons across the nation.
The Terminal Island Prison is the focus of the movie where a race of cars armed with various weapons and armor called the Death Race is broadcast to the world via internet. One would try to win and survive in doing the race.
The movie started by a nearly ended race between a famous masked driver known as Frankenstein accompanied by a female navigator and Machine Gun Joe (Tyrese Gibson).
Joe destroys Frank’s car that ejects his navigator after his defensive system fail and leave Frankenstein dead or critically wounded.
Jensen Ames (Jason Statham) is sent to prison after he was framed for his wife’s murder the same day that the steel mill he works at closes. The murderer who is masked intruder points a finger-gun at Ames before it leaves.
In the prison he is coerced by Hennessey (Joan Allen), a prison warden, to become the new driver of Ford Mustang own by Frankenstein.
Hennessey knows that Ames baby is left in the care of the foster home and his chance of going out is to join the race. According to her, the prisoners are freed upon winning the five Dearth Races.
He will just take on the mask of the legendary Frankenstein who had already 4 wins at the time of his death. That will mean that he will only be taking one race to win.
Death Race is broken down into three stages. The first two stages, Stage 1 and 2 is the stage that the drivers must survive. The last stage which is the Stage 3 is where they should win that will add to the count of their freedom.
As Ames joins the race he finds out the real purpose of his imprisonment and will find revenge for the murderer of his wife. Will he able to win the race and be free to take care of his baby?

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