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Watch: Death Race 2008 123movies, Full Movie Online – 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?.
Plot: Terminal Island, New York: 2020. Overcrowding in the US penal system has reached a breaking point. Prisons have been turned over to a monolithic Weyland Corporation, which sees jails full of thugs as an opportunity for televised sport. Adrenalized inmates, a global audience hungry for violence and a spectacular, enclosed arena come together to form the ‘Death Race’, the biggest, most brutal event.
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Ratings:

	6.4/10 Votes: 209,920
	42% | RottenTomatoes
	43/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 3222 Popularity: 49.652 | TMDB

Reviews:

Loud and brash but ultimately entertaining thanks mostly to Jason Statham and some decent racing sequences (well, when the camera wasn’t jittery or quick edits). Also some love for Joan Allen making for a fine villain and never a bad thing with Ian McShane even in a supporting role. Nothing great but pretty much well within Paul W.S. Anderson’s wheelhouse. **3.5/5**

A massive departure from the original, _Death Race_ keeps the cars and kills and forgoes virtually everything else from _2000_. Fun in a very different manner, but still fun, and that’s what counts.

_Final rating:★★★ – I personally recommend you give it a go._

Fun, Fun, FUN!
Now here’s an exploitation film that knows what a solid B-movie is supposed to be: an action-dense, amped-up, gore-soaked killfest. It’s the cinematic equivalent of eating that entire box of Red Vines you bought at the snack bar, using them as candy straws to suck down your extra-large Coke.

As a fan of the original “Death Race 2000,” I was pleased to see just enough of a shadow of the original movie inhabiting the skin of the new one. Roger Corman’s name on the producing credits gave me hope at the start, and his seal of approval seemed to mean something, perhaps as counterweight to Paul W. S. Anderson’s track record of shooting mediocre video game adaptations. Surprisingly, Anderson rises to the occasion, effortlessly elevating a cliché-rich but fast-moving script to the level of a satisfyingly adrenalin-fueled confection aimed like a bullet at the A.D.D.-addled brains of the short-attention-span generation.

Set in an “Escape From New York”-style dystopic prison-culture (that sounds suspiciously like current American society), slaughter happens, stuff blows up, and the weak are culled like bunnies caught in the headlights of gas-sucking American muscle cars. Fans of the “Twisted Metal” video game will love the newest wrinkle in the race, the addition of weaponry – a needed bloody bump for version 2.0. And what a bump it is, with each car’s chugging machine guns indiscriminately spewing hot rounds at every foe, shredding Detroit steel like it was used Kleenex. It’s unabashed gun fetishism at its gleeful best, and it makes you want to strap an M60 to the hood of your Prius in order to cut your commute in half.

Jason Statham does his standard tough-guy job as the scowling Frankenstein, Joan Allen plays a ball-busting warden (perhaps a bit in the mold of Louise Fletcher’s Nurse Ratched), and Ian McShane of “Deadwood” has a solid cameo as the prison-wise mechanic, Coach. Even Machine Gun Joe gets a new incarnation in the form of Tyrese Gibson, who thankfully is nothing like Stallone’s blustering Italian meatball.

I loved it, and can’t wait to see it again in a theater with enough bass to pump up those impact crunches to the bone-jarring level they deserve.

Yeah!

Expect little, get even less.
Going into this movie, for reasons I cannot explain, I didn’t expect to really see anything that resembles the usual quality films I try to only watch. I have seen Jason Statham in The Italian Job and The Bank Job and liked both of those. I think he needs to stick to caper films rather than over-the top action movies that may have a sleek look to them, but have ultimately no plot and no reason to see them. Statham plays a former hardcore car racer who is trying to live straight, but ends up in a huge jail after being framed for his wife’s murder. He is then drawn into the Death Race, an Internet phenomenon showcasing wild prisoners drive even more wild cars in a race that features the winner killing off the others.

To be frank, this movie offers no new insight to its genre, the performances are lackluster, especially by Joan Allen as the tough-as nails warden, and Tyrese Gibson as the supposedly gay inmate that is Statham’s rival. Nothing here works very well and the ending is predictable and lame. Save your money and go see a well-made funny movie like Tropic Thunder that may not be one of the best of the year but is a heck of a lot better than this.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 45 min (105 min), 1 hr 51 min (111 min) (unrated) (USA)
Budget 45000000
Revenue 76014335
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Director Paul W.S. Anderson
Writer Paul W.S. Anderson, Robert Thom, Charles B. Griffith
Actors Jason Statham, Joan Allen, Tyrese Gibson
Country United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Awards 1 win & 5 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix SDDS, DTS, Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera Arricam LT, Arricam ST, Arriflex 235, Arriflex 35 III (some scenes), Arriflex 435 (some scenes), Arriflex 535 (some scenes)
Laboratory EFILM Digital Laboratories, Hollywood (CA), USA (digital intermediate), Technicolor, Hollywood (CA), USA
Film Length 2,861 m (Sweden), 2,893 m (Portugal, 35 mm)
Negative Format 35 mm (Kodak)
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (2K) (master format), Super 35 (source format)
Printed Film Format 35 mm (anamorphic), D-Cinema