Ex-con Jensen Ames is forced by the warden of a notorious prison to compete in our post-industrial world's most popular sport: a car race in which inmates must brutalize and kill one another on the road to victory. In 2012, amid economic chaos and high unemployment, Americans watch by the millions as criminals with life sentences race armored cars on Terminal Island. Two-thirds of the combatants die but the winner may earn his freedom. On the day he loses his job, steelworker Jensen Ames is arrested for his wife's murder. Sent to Terminal Island, he's offered an out by the steely and manipulative Warden Hennessey - race as the popular mask-wearing (but now dead) champion, Frankenstein, or rot in prison. Jensen makes the bargain. As the three-stage race approaches, he realizes that the whole thing may be a set up - can an anonymous man behind a mask get revenge and win his release? STAR RATING: ***** Saturday Night **** Friday Night *** Friday Morning ** Sunday Night * Monday Morning <br/><br/>With the opening title cards telling us the film is set in a future where the American economy has collapsed, with everything that's going on at the moment, the re-make of 1975's Death Race 2000 presents a grimly prophetic view of the future. It's themes of reality TV going as far showing actual death crashes is also becoming ever more possible, and yet 2008's Death Race is a simple dumb action film. Paul Anderson has presented a typical video game style movie, with Jason Statham as believable an action presence as ever as the man framed for his wife's murder, whose chance at freedom by racing in the titular deadly racing match leads him to discover the real reason behind her death, and it's involvement with the corrupt female warden (Joan Allen.) It's all slick, stylish and polished enough, but none of it leaves much of a lasting impression and is even more of a none event than I personally found the original. ** It's hard not to compare and contrast this film with Paul Bartel's original effort, but the latter actually was a better made film. The premise of both movies–bread and circuses for a bloodthirsty populace via Authority–is a fascinating subject. With the original movie, this became a very brightly colored and violent cross-country chase. With this film, you get a NASCAR version of Gitmo where a big budget offers a very slow and boring film compared to Corman and Bartel's much-cheaper and much more fun effort.<br/><br/>This Death Race is boring as hell. The movie ping-pongs between three action sequences and a ton of character development so poorly written that it has to be seen to be believed. With ideas openly stolen from Rollerball, Escape from New York, and even B-fests like The Last Chase, one would think that Paul W.S. Anderson would make a film that took all of those concepts and bundled them into the ultimate action film. A fun film that would keep people involved.<br/><br/>Yet this does not happen. Statham tries his best with what he has, along with McShane. But they are not given much to work with. The film fails to even delight the gorehound by having approximately three gore shots throughout the film. The film fails the action fan by being so poorly edited that interest is lost during the action sequences. And sometimes the acting of Joan Allen is so awful that the extreme lack of characterization that she has makes it hard to take her character seriously. It's hard to see exactly how a movie made today's technology could manage to be so utterly boring. It is beaten by the gore and the nudity of the original that is nearly forty years old at this point.<br/><br/>And in the end, that's all that can be said. When your $45 million movie is outclassed by a smaller and more graphic movie that had the guts to run down children and old people, then you know you have failed. This could have been something special.<br/><br/>Truly tragic on how this movie utterly fails. 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… Death Race is a remake of the 1975 film <a href="/title/tt0072856/">Death Race 2000 (1975)</a> with a new script written by English director Paul W.S. Anderson. It is not based on the 1976 arcade game Death Race, which was inspired by the 1975 film. It isn't exactly stated when Death race takes place. It is stated in the prologue that in 2012 the economy collapsed and that before Death Race there were Gladiator type battles. So it can be assumed that it is at least a decade after the Cage Fights started which was probably around 2015, so we can assume this takes place in 2025. In the DVD commentary, Paul W.S. Anderson describes the original concept as a "reimagining" of Paul Bartel's Death Race 2000, so in that sense it's a remake. However, <a href="/name/nm0001016/">David Carradine</a>'s voice cameo as Frankenstein at the beginning of the film suggests that it could also be seen as a sequel. Anderson also says that when he was making the film, he thought of it as a prequel to Death Race 2000, showing how the Death Race began in a prison before it went on to become the cross-country race seen in Bartel's film. However, the film can't literally be a prequel since it takes place an indeterminate time after 2012 and Death Race 2000 is set in (of course) 2000. Or it could mean that it was the 2,000th race and has nothing to do with the year. (1) Jensen Ames's Ford Mustang, (2) Grimm's Chrysler 300C, (3) 14K's 1988 Porsche 911, (4) Colt's Jaguar XJS, (5) Riggins' Buick Riviera "boat-tail" (early 1970's), (6) Carson's Pontiac Trans AM, (7) Siad's BMW 7 Series (E32), (8) Pachenko's 1966 Buick Riviera (chop top), (9) Machine Gun Joe's Dodge Ram 1500 4x4 Pickup, and (10) "The Dreadnought" is a Peterbilt Tractor with a modified tanker trailer. The electric kill switches are in the weapons. All they do is deactivate the weapons so they can't use them to escape. "Warmest regards, your monster." The R-rated theatrical version was not cut to obtain the rating. The unrated edition extends some fights and action scenes and runs more than 4 minutes longer. In the film's prequels <a href="/title/tt1500491/">Death Race 2 (2010)</a> and <a href="/title/tt1988591/">Death Race: Inferno (2013)</a>; we find out that the original Frankenstein was Carl Lucas who was horribly burned in a crash. However, advancements in experimental plastic surgery eventually managed to heal Lucas and give him back his face. He later escapes from prison along with his co-pilot and pit crewmember. But not before framing the cold-hearted and tyrannical Company Man Niles York who assumed control of Death Race. York gets horribly burned in a crash caused by Lucas in which it's announced that Katrina and York were killed. However York was only horribly burned and Lucas and Katrina had escaped. Lists confirms York is Frankenstein and so he is forced to don the mask and compete in the races. 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