Death Race 2 (2011)

Instant Favorite.

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

Boring

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Nicely shot; excellent sound; nuff said on that! Rather poor concept, totally unoriginal. Overly stylised which distracted from the concept but dazzled the eyes and ears. Not as good as the first as it was missing that big lorry. There were some cool stunts but they were all in slow motion with crazy sound design which kinda worked but was so stylised that it was a bit distracting. It looked and sounded pretty but there was nothing under the hood.

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...

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.

Terrible. Watch Death Race again instead. Recycled cars, set and I suspect footage from the first one. That is all. But apparently I have to keep typing until I have typed 10 lines or more. Whoever cam up with this system obviously hadn't seen this film. There is nothing more to say. Don't waste your time. Seeing 80's pretty boy pop star Luke Goss getting a crispy coating slightly cheered me up but not for long. Is that enough typing yet? No, obviously not. So, how about those Bulldogs eh? Mrs z is watching Neverland as I type this. It's twice as good as Death Race 2 - I rate it 2 out of 10 - mainly because it IS NOT Death Race 2. Other than that it has very few good points apart from Bob Hoskins as Mr Smee. 10 lines yet?