The first movie I elected to see this New Year was Death Race 2. Now I honestly had interest in this movie prior to viewing it. I enjoyed Death Race and Death Race 2000 (even though DR2000 was loosely related to any of the other movies). Though, I did notice that Death Race 2 did not come out on theatres and the lack of advertising for this movie was minimal to say the least, nevertheless I had some genuine interest to this movie. How well the sequel lived up, find out by clicking ‘Read More’. (Duh)Now the plot to Death Race 2 was that it was just a prequel to Death Race 1, allowing the absence of Jason Stratham excusable. Instead this movie is filled with lesser know actors and cheesy special effects. To beginning, the title is a dam lie! There is almost no racing in the whole video. The first car chase scene starts at around the 15 minute mark and it is lame. It makes your mom’s meatloaf taste like a rollercoaster of fun. The action is snail slow; the camera angles were worked by 10 year olds on crack and the special effects was done on power point. And after that whole car chase, it is an hour of mindless babble about leading up to the series of “Death Race” from their amazing idea of “Death Match”, which is just two jail cell members fighting, original I know.
Secondly, the action scene and plot are almost the identically the same as the first one. Even how some of the matches/races are won, are almost exactly the same sequences. And the last 30 minutes of the movie, were they are actually racing, feels like I am watching Death Race 1, but summarized and chopped up in 30 minutes. Let alone the acting is mind numbing and the flow of the movie is as smooth as a jagged rock. There is almost no appealing factor in this movie.
To finalize, I really did want this to be a good movie but it failed so hard. It was a prequel to a movie whose story didn’t really need a background story, the actors were boring and Frankenstein was barely in the movie at all. I felt bored and felt bad about myself for watching this movie and really regretted watching it.
Recommendation: Watch Death Race 1 and Death Race 2000 (in no order). Enjoy those two movies and don’t even pick up Death Race 2.
Haha awesome, It makes your mom's meatloaf taste like a rollercoaster of fun. I actually liked the first Death Race, but it was already pretty shallow fun. I guess a direct to DVD low budget version didn't have much hope.
ReplyDeletethe other one was alright.... but i just cant see a Direct to dvd being even remotely decent, but i do want some meatloaf
ReplyDeleteI was interested in seeing this one, but if Frankenstein is barely in it, I don't see much point.
ReplyDelete@Wesley, the movie's plot is the origin story of Frankenstein, but it doesn't seem like it really has anything to do with Frankenstein. Just a story of a man, who than was turned into Frankenstein.
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