Death Race 2 Review

Jan 9, 2011

Terminal Island Penitentiary is pretty close to Hell on Earth, filled with the baddest of the bad…the murderers, the rapists and the robbers that society has deemed should never set foot outside the walls of a prison again. Run by Weyland Corporation, Terminal Island is now run for profit rather than the rehabilitation and punishment of the prisoners.

Little does Carl ‘Luke’ Lucas know, that he will soon be behind the razor wire-topped walls himself.

There, he learns the hard way about one of the prison’s main money earners: Death Match, a bloody, pay-to-view TV show hosted by the viciously calculating September Jones, who is under pressure to boost ratings and will stop at nothing to achieve her goal.

From here-on-in, along with Luke, we’re taken on a roller-coaster ride of Death Match fights, prison riots, and the newly formed Death Races where he encounters Katrina Banks, another inmate who becomes his racing navigator…and more besides.

On top of everything else, Luke must stay one step ahead of numerous cons wanting to claim a $1,000,000,000 bounty put on his head by someone he would never have suspected, leaving him not knowing who he can trust.

Culminating in the creation of his new persona, Frankenstein, the ruthless, iron-masked face of Death Race, this movie has plot-twists aplenty with enough high-octane action to leave you crying out for more as the credits roll.

One thing I wished had been different was the title of the movie, which was originally to have been Death Race: Frankenstein Lives, as this would have kept the confusion about who was in the movie to a minimum. The 2008 movie Death Race was a sequel to Death Race 2000, with Stratham’s character Jensen Ames replacing Frankenstein as a Death Race driver. This one is in fact a sequel to the original, telling how Carl ‘Luke’ Lucas became ‘Frankenstein’.

Apart from that, I can heartily recommend Death Race 2 as an early highlight to 2011’s movie viewing which I am sure will become a firm favourite to watch again and again!!!