Death Race

The Transporter star Jason Statham takes the wheel in director Paul W.S. Anderson's remake of the Roger Corman classic about a hyper-violent cross-country race that breaks all of the traditional rules of the road. The time is the not-so-distant future, and as America's prisons begin overflowing with ...more

Death Race is purported to be a remake of the 1973 movie of the same name, but that hardly matters. It's like The Fast and the Furious meets Prison Break and is thoroughly modern. British hunk Jason Statham, playing the type of contemplative, conflicted action hero role vacated by Jean-Claude Van Damme and Steven Seagal after they got older and less agile, gets his brood on as a jailed man and former race car driver with a checkered past wrongly convicted of offing his wife. At first glance, ...more