Death Race (2008)
Directed by Paul WS Anderson
Starring Jason Stratham and Tyrese (uh-oh…)
Based on The Roger Corman film of a similar name, DEATH RACE is type of extended video game that songs like "Click Click Boom" were created for. It's also the type of film that would only attract guys who direct RESIDENT EVIL and AVP! Thank God the movie at least has enough sense to spend most of it's time on the race track instead of on the exposition.
Jason Stratham, once again, waste his talent and my time on non-discerning roles. This time he's some blue-collar who gets framed for murdering his wife. He gets sent to a maximum security pay-per-view prison where the jailed race each other to the death for ratings. Did I forget that this takes place in the future? Apparently, so did the production designer, seeing how most of the film's backdrop is less post-apocalyptic and more compost and metal.
But what about the action? I've seen better. You can almost tell when, director, Anderson uses violence to clamor for an audience pop. Half the time it falls kind of flat the other half occurs so frantically that you don't even know what’s going on (a lot of shots where the tourettes-having cameraman shakes uncontrollably).
Directed by Paul WS Anderson
Starring Jason Stratham and Tyrese (uh-oh…)
Based on The Roger Corman film of a similar name, DEATH RACE is type of extended video game that songs like "Click Click Boom" were created for. It's also the type of film that would only attract guys who direct RESIDENT EVIL and AVP! Thank God the movie at least has enough sense to spend most of it's time on the race track instead of on the exposition.
Jason Stratham, once again, waste his talent and my time on non-discerning roles. This time he's some blue-collar who gets framed for murdering his wife. He gets sent to a maximum security pay-per-view prison where the jailed race each other to the death for ratings. Did I forget that this takes place in the future? Apparently, so did the production designer, seeing how most of the film's backdrop is less post-apocalyptic and more compost and metal.
But what about the action? I've seen better. You can almost tell when, director, Anderson uses violence to clamor for an audience pop. Half the time it falls kind of flat the other half occurs so frantically that you don't even know what’s going on (a lot of shots where the tourettes-having cameraman shakes uncontrollably).
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