Jason Statham - Death Race (...Is it worth it?)

Published 2008-08-21

MULTI PLATNUM SELLING MUSICIAN AND ACTOR TYRESE GIBSON STARS AS 'MACHINE GUN JOE'
IN
DEATH RACE

Terminal Island: The very near future.
The world's hunger for extreme sports and reality competitions has grown into reality TV bloodlust. Now, the most extreme racing competition has emerged and its contestants are murderous prisoners. Tricked-out cars, caged thugs and smoking-hot navigators combine to create a juggernaut series with bigger ratings than the Super Bowl. The rules of the DEATH RACE are simple: Win five events, and you're set free. Lose and you're road kill splashed across the Internet.
JASON STATHAM (the Transporter series, The Bank Job) stars as three-time speedway champion Jensen Ames, an ex-con framed for a gruesome murder. Forced to don the mask of the mythical driver Frankenstein, a Death Race crowd favorite who seems impossible to kill, Ames is given an easy choice by Terminal Island's ruthless Warden Hennessey (JOAN ALLEN of the Bourne Supremacy and The Borne Ultimatum): Suit up and drive or never see his little girl again. His face hidden by a hideous mask, one convict will enter an insane three-day challenge in order to gain freedom. But to claim the prize, Ames must survive a gauntlet of the most vicious criminals including nemesis Machine Gun Joe (TYRESE GIBSON of Transformers, 2 Fast 2 Furious) in the toughest prison. Trained by his coach (IAN McSHANE of Deadwood, The Golden Compass) to drive a monster Mustang V8 Fastback outfitted with 2 mounted mini-guns, flamethrowers and napalm, and innocent man will destroy everything in his path to win the most twisted spectator sport on Earth.
For his role, Tyrese knew playing a ruthless murderer would challenge. "Machine Gun Joe is evil," "He's an inmate, a leader and a killer. This role was so dark. It was really hard for me to come on set and be dark and then, between takes, get back to being my normal self: fun, laughing, cracking jokes."
Director/producer PAUL W.S. ANDERSON (Resident Evil series AVP: Alien vs. Predator) reimagines ROGER CORMAN'S classic Death Race 2000 for the screen. On the production, he is joined for Death Race by producers PAULA WAGNER (Mission: Impossible series War of the Words) and JEREMY BOLT (Resident Evil: Apocalypse Resident Evil: Extinction). The behind-the-scenes creative team that brings the shocking reality show to life includes director of photography SCOTT KEVAN, editor NIVEN HOWIE, production designer PAUL DENHAM AUSTERBERRY and composer PAUL HASLINGER. Death Race is written by Paul W. S Anderson and based on the screenplay by ROBERT THOM and CHARLES GRIFFITH, from a story by IB MELCHIOR. The film's executive producers are Roger Corman, DENNIS E. JONES, DON GRANGER and RYAN KAVANAUGH.
Death Race opens nationwide August 22nd.

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Produced by Jamaal Finkley

Hosted by Ameerah Banks

Footage Courtesy of Universal Pictures

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@johnnyg177 15 years ago

This movie is great and Statham always kicks ass in his movies!

@SilverBabe01 15 years ago

He was great in the Italian Job, he really had fun with the role u could tell. U should watch the Bank Job he doesn't do much fighting but he was still fun to watch.

@NightTranceDay 14 years ago

Jason Statham is the action KING.

@jason1309 15 years ago

the action hero of our times

@PunkPanties 15 years ago

No, it's actually really good. I watched the movie three times back-to-back and am still not bored with the movie.

@CloneGnome 15 years ago

Jason Statham is awesome!

@Diehard804 15 years ago

best movie of the year so far!!!!!!

@Maxen1991 15 years ago

Jason Statham = THE best actor alive :D

@David_Theisen 15 years ago

that movie was the FRICKIN BEST action movie of the summer! LOVED IT!

@Chaos13666 14 years ago

Jason Statham is the man!

@andrew21slash 13 years ago

omg, im no kidding jason is my personal hero¡

@DanyBaron 15 years ago

I like him acting

@Reims123 15 years ago

Jason Statham is like a british Niko Belic

@gijsvdgun 13 years ago

Jason Statham should be playing in another Guy Ritchie movie. He is bad ass in the Transporter and his other movies, but you have to agree Turkish in Snatch was his best role..

i love his voice

@GnB35 15 years ago

This movie was much better than i expected. Packed with action, brutal humor, cool car races, one extremely hot latina chick, which makes it more of a guy's movie but an overall very entertaining movie to watch. As for the story i don't expect movies like this to have a great story as the story isn't everything in a movie, this was just more of a pure bad ass type of movie.