[Mattk]

I watched Death Race last night with some mates. We wanted to see a violent movie and that was the best we came up with. It is a film about a former race car driver (played by Jason Statham), who is framed for the murder of his wife by an enterprising prison chief (Joan Allen) so he can participate in her Death Races, streamed to a global audience from her prison. Most of the main characters end up dying in the film and there is just wanton, unnecessary and sometimes quite random violence interspersed with the killings. My only major gripe is that the cars seem to go really quickly and handle perfectly even with heavy armour and machine guns attached. One of the racers drives a Dodge Ram which seems to be able to perfectly keep up with the sports cars the others drive. Unrealistic, perhaps, but hardly a fatal flaw. 8/10