She comes up with the Death Race concept. The film is essentially an excuse to flesh out the background to the character of Frankenstein, a ruthless masked driver who featured prominently both in Anderson’s film and Roger Corman’s 1975 original Death Race 2000, as well as leveraging in driving thrills-and-spills and bare-knuckle fighting.Īfter a failed robbery attempt, Carl ‘Luke’ Lucas (Goss) finds himself sent to the high-security privatised prison of Terminal Island, where TV producer September Jones (Lauren Cohan) oversees live coverage of inmates staging deadly Death Fights, with only the last man standing being allowed to live.īut with ratings dipping, TV channel boss Weyland (Ving Rhames, who rather disappointingly wears a suit and doesn’t fight anyone throughout the entire film) demands more from Jones. The production design is solid and the thrills’n’spills nicely staged. Luke Goss might lack the muscular-presence of Jason Statham, but Death Race 2 ticks all of the right action-adventure boxes to sit easily alongside its big-budget predecessor. Anderson’s 2008 film Death Race may well be heading straight to DVD in most territories (via Universal), but it has the sci-fi thrills to work for fans the genre. This well-cast and engagingly action-packed prequel to Paul W.S.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |