A Convict’s Wet Dream
- Death Race
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Hitting the theaters in the ass-end of summer (not good for an action flick) comes Death Race. I’m not sure what Joan Allen is doing here, or even Jason Statham, but there’s little that justifies the remake of the Harvey Corman film or yet another tale about convicts killing each other for the camera. But at least it’s better than The Condemned (read that review).
The economy of the United States has collapsed. In this near future (roughly four years from today) prisons are run by cooperations, for a profit. Though what type of cooperation would go for this is never explained (gee, I wonder why Budweiser wouldn’t want to be marketed in the film?).
Unemployment is out an all-time high and the most watched program on the air is a pay-per-view Internet program which involves prisoners fighting for their lives. Hmm… haven’t we seen something like this before, once, twice, three times, or more?
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