Death Race | Cinema | Auto Class Magazine

Death Race | Cinema

Set in 2012, with the American prison system in collapse, where many inmates are isolated in a maximum security prison where their only way out is represented by the “Death Race” competition, a series of death-match races with cars prepared and armed to the teeth.

TITLE: Death Race

YEAR: 2008

DIRECTED BY: Paul W. S. Anderson

LENGHT: 1h 45min

GENRE: action, sci-fi

Jason Statham takes on the role of protagonist Jensen Ames, an ex-worker wrongfully incarcerated in the Terminal Island prison. Here he soon learn that this is not just any prison, but that everything revolves around a worldwide broadcast that sacrifices prisoners for the fun of an increasingly bored society looking for this type of violence on wheels. It is at this point that he is suggested to take the role of the late Frankenstein – an inmate who died shortly before his arrival and capable of inflaming spectators with his skills behind the wheel. Death Race is a very enjoyable movie, with all the ingredients that will keep you hooked on the screen, including some twists and immersive racing scenes. A mix between Escape from New York and Mad Max, with Statham perfectly at ease with this role and with characters that are perhaps stereotyped, but greatly functional in this context.

Edited by Marco Rallo