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Death Race 2 (2011)

January. 18,2011
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5.6
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R
| Action Thriller Science Fiction

In the world's most dangerous prison, a new game is born: Death Race. The rules of this adrenaline-fueled blood sport are simple, drive or die. When repentant convict Carl Lucas discovers there's a price on his head, his only hope is to survive a twisted race against an army of hardened criminals and tricked-out cars.

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SnoopyStyle
2011/01/18

In the near future, prisons are private. The Weyland Corp is the new owner of the Terminal Island Penitentiary. unscrupulous reporter September Jones (Lauren Cohan) happens upon a prison riot and comes up with an idea for Weyland (Ving Rhames). Death Match is a pay-per-view event pitting competing prisoners in combat. After awhile, the ratings start going down. Getaway driver Carl 'Luke' Lucas (Luke Goss) leads a bank robbery for crime boss Markus Kane (Sean Bean). It goes wrong and Luke is imprisoned. Markus orders his murder before he can snitch. This is a prequel. Luke would become Frankenstein and die in the 2008 reboot.There is some good action but everything in between is weak. Sometimes, the action becomes a chaotic mess. In general, the action is still there but inferior to 2008. Luke Goss is not charismatic as the lead. He's a no name actor more useful for support. There is a bait and switch with the bigger actors. Rhames and Bean are more or less supporting actors. This is pretty much what one expects from a straight to DVD fare.

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ewalddd
2011/01/19

Until the part that Carl Lucas died from the burns, it was fairly watchable, but after that, the Sc-Fi part came (where he was turned Frankenstein), and I didn't like it anymore. Had they cut the Frankenstein-part, then maybe the movie overall had been a bit better. The Frankenstein-part killed the fun for me... Also the movie was a bit too long, after the death of Carl Lucas, I lost my interest, and only watched to the end because I like to watch the whole movie, especially when already watching longer than an hour. Also a lot of things that seem illogical for me, and a bit too much sex-related stuff... Sorry, but 1 out of 10 for me...

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BA_Harrison
2011/01/20

Me and Luke Goss go way back. In the '80s, I almost attended the same house party as the aspiring pop star (I knew where it was, but I wasn't invited), and in the early '90s I saw him shopping for CDs in Tower Records on Sunset Boulevard (then again, it might have been his brother Matt). Anyway, I'd have never imagined in my wildest dreams that a local lad could go on to become a major pop sensation, let alone a Hollywood action movie star, appearing alongside such legendary names as Ving Rhames, Sean Bean and Deobia Oparei. No, siree.In Death Race 2, a prequel to Paul W.S. Anderson's Death Race (2008), Goss plays dashing getaway driver Carl 'Luke' Lucas, who is hired by crime boss Markus Kane (Bean) for a bank robbery. When the job goes awry, Lucas is arrested and sent to privatised, top-security penitentiary Terminal Island, where prisoners take part in a televised death match. However, as ratings start to fall, sexy host September Jones (Lauren Cohan) is forced by her ruthless boss Weyland (Rhames) to come up with an even more violent spectacle, The Death Race, in which nine inmates (and their ridiculously sexy female co-drivers) race around the island in armoured vehicles loaded with firepower in a bid to win their freedom. No prizes for guessing that Lucas makes the cut, the driver teamed with hottie Katrina Banks (Tanit Phoenix), who must have been jailed for being criminally sexy.As straight-to-video action sequel/prequels go, Death Race 2 isn't as absolutely awful as it might have been: having clearly spent some time in the gym since warbling 'Drop the Boy', blue-eyed pretty boy Goss actually makes for a fairly impressive action star, and the crazy, stunt-filled race scenes offer enough explosive thrills and excitement to happily sink a few beers to. The film is, of course, throughly preposterous at times, but I have a sneaking suspicion that that may have been the intention. Certainly no worse than the first Death Race movie, Death Race 2 is just about enough fun to make me want to check out part 3, Death Race: Inferno, which is actually a sequel to this prequel, but still a prequel to the original film.

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petepete29
2011/01/21

It looks like an R rated movie made by high school students.Bad acting , Bad story lines , lots of scenes don't make sense.Lots of chEEsy lines " Do you have a name? of coarse I do ".Made by amateurs. I hope they didn't destroy the Death Race franchise which could have been incredible.They had to show a lot of boobs for us to stay interested.Some have been giving this movie great reviews, I think they were paid to do it, because it reeks of B or C class movies.Makes me think of Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation .. Which was unwatchable and stank of B and C class also.

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