The first reports from early screenings of September ’s Death Race have popped up online , and the dystopian race - for - your - life movie sounds just as silly as you ’d probably expect . Starring Jason Statham , Death Race is less a remake of seventies furor classic Death Race 2000 than a movie inspired by it . It features lots of weird video - plot touches , and some very over - the - top graphic violence , good manners of director Paul W.S. Anderson ( Event Horizon ) . Click through for details and spoilers .
One line abstract : “ Competitors race for their lives . What ’s not to love ? ” Slightly longer synopsis : Statham is a captive who ’s forced to take part in a “ dying airstream ” for amusement purposes , where the reward is not getting dreadfully smushed .
It ’s like “ Mario Kart on steroids . ” When the drivers drive over little sword - and - cuticle - shaped markers on the route , they get vile or justificatory weapons activated on their car .
The pic has really intense violence , including masses getting run over and impaled . One tattooed driver gets splatted fantastically diagrammatically as he ’s try out to break loose the shattered wreckage of his own car . People also get blown up and “ shot to hell . ” You get to see Jason Statham ’s buns when he gets hosed down in prison , in one setting betimes on .
It ’s a “ cockamamy action at law update ” of the 1970s furor classic . And there ’s a Frankenstein mask .
Joan Allen plays a Cruella Deville - type baddie . Ian MacShane steals all his scenes , and Tyrese is barely in it despite being the other main character besides Statham .
It has a really , really weirdly sharp ending , with very little resolution of what materialize to the eccentric .
[ Statham Fan ]
Death RaceJason StathamPaul W.S. Anderson
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