synopsis in 2012 and the united state economy collapse and life for everyone be not the same . once a nascar champion and jensen ames and ( jason statham ) and hit rock bottom and spent several year in prison . his life be improve and change for the good after meeting and marrying suzy ( janaya stephen ) and have a baby girl . then the steel mill close and and he lose his job . but that be not the bad thing to happen to jenson that day . suzy be brutally murder and and he be frame for her murder . jenson be send to terminal island and the bad and tough for profit prison in the country run by warden hennessey ( joan allen ) . she have create the country most popular pay per view sport and a kill or be kill car race where the inmate race to win their freedom from prison after 5 win . every inmate driver be drive a monster car that they build which be load with machine gun and missile and flamethrower and napalm and and no rule . warden hennessey convinces jensen to secretly take the place of the late 4 time superstar winner and frankenstein and and wear his metallic mask in the race . if jensen win just one race and he can go home to his baby daughter . to get to the finish line and jensen must kill his competition before they kill him . my comment this be kind of a remake inspire by the 1975 movie and death race 2000 and in name only . this movie stand on it own . the title death race tell it all . if you want to see an action pack race where all the driver go through a gauntlet of death and then this movie be for you . there be some scene that take the race to the max . if you ever have road rage and i be sure you would love to be drive one of these car . you can see why the for profit prison put on these race and because i calculate that they would make a tremendous profit of $ 12 . 5 billion for 3 pay per view race . jason statham play his usually part a the tough kick as jensen ames very well . i know everybody will like the end . ( universal picture and 1 represent39 minute and rat r ) ( positive ) .