Death Race Page #3

Synopsis: 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?
Director(s): Paul W.S. Anderson
Production: Universal Pictures
  1 win & 5 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.4
Metacritic:
43
Rotten Tomatoes:
42%
R
Year:
2008
105 min
$36,064,910
Website
786 Views


fun customizing...

your personal

protection package.

Three-quarter inch steel

plate, front and sides.

Bulletproof glass will

be here, here and there.

And in the rear, a six-inch

solid steel shield we call...

'the tombstone.'

Oil, smoke, and

napalm for defense.

And twin 30-millimeter

belt-fed...

machine guns for offense.

So where's the ammo?

We get that on race day.

Pity.

Yeah. Everyone thinks

that, first time.

Thinks what?

About turning the guns on

the guards, about escaping.

No, I wasn't thinking that.

Well, I'm glad,

because

Hennessey has got

electric kill switches...

in all the guns

in all the cars.

And all the guard

towers are fortified,

and their guns are

bigger than your guns.

But did I mention

the helicopters,

and also the fact that

we're on an island here...

a mile from the

nearest shoreline?

The only way in

or out of here...

is on that one skinny

bridge you came in on.

What's that?

Most important

part of the car.

How many people

has Frank killed?

Twenty. The mortality rate

is average 62.2% per race.

So Frank beat the

odds four times.

Yeah. Till they beat him.

The race takes place in

three stages over three days.

The first two stages,

you just got to try

and get rid of...

as much of the

competition as you can...

while getting your own skinny

ass over the line alive.

Third stage is

where speed counts.

First one over

that line wins.

Tomorrow morning, you

meet your navigator, Case.

She'll help you navigate the

course, reload your weapons...

and help with the

running of the car.

I'd like to talk to her ahead

of time, before the race.

Yeah. I'd like

a big-tittie girl...

to lick peanut

butter off my toes.

That ain't gonna happen.

It's still a prison,

man. She's a chick.

They get bussed in from the

women's facility upstate.

It's all about ratings,

fast cars, pretty women.

Yeah, Machine Gun

Joe is the only...

one that has a

male navigators.

'Cause he's gay.

Actually, it's 'cause he

goes through them so fast,

the audience gets squeamish.

Yeah, he goes through them.

Through their ass.

He cuts each kill into his...

skin as a souvenir,

right here.

What about the rest

of the drivers?

Lists?

First generation

Chinese-American,

And his father sent

him to business school.

He's the only man in here

who holds a degree from MIT.

He's killed four

men off the track.

That we know of.

Another seven on it.

Hector Grimm,

The Grimm Reaper.

The man's a master.

Clinical psychopath.

Believes that Hennessey

is an avatar...

of the Hindu goddess

of death, Kali,

and that he is her messenger.

Cuckoo.

Three time

consecutive life sentences.

He's killed six men off

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