Death Race

Paul WS Anderson's Death Race , an expensive remake of Roger Cormans low-budget 1975 exploitation movie Death Race 2000, is a bone-crushing, gear-crashing action movie about a lethal motoring game broadcast to sensation-hungry TV audiences from a maximum security prison in a dystopian 2012 America. Jason Statham, a framed lifer, and Tyrese Gibson are the chief competitors, Ian McShane is Statham's in-house coach and Joan Allen is the tough, power-dressed warden who orchestrates the brutal proceedings.

  1. Death Race
  2. Production year: 2008
  3. Country: USA
  4. Cert (UK): 15
  5. Runtime: 104 mins
  6. Directors: Paul WS Anderson
  7. Cast: Frederick Koehler, Ian McShane, Jacob Vargas, Jason Statham, Joan Allen, Justin Mader, Max Ryan, Natalie Martinez, Robert LaSardo, Robin Chou, Robin Shou, Tyrese Gibson
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Speaking in the ladylike tones of a Daughter of the American Revolution, she has one of the years most memorable lines: OK cocksucker! Fuck with me and well see who shits on the sidewalk. The film-makers like the line so much that Allen repeats it after the closing credits. Watching Death Race is like entering a dance marathon with a pneumatic drill as your partner.

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