A truly Gene-X picture made with loads of race tracks, racing cars, greatly build hero, men with great physique, meagerly dressed women. High excitement has made this a totally watch able movie for those who love adventure. It can be considered as reconstruct of classic death race 2000.By the by many may prefer the original one as a more attractive and money recurring movie.
The story revolves round Jensen Ames played by Jason Statham who is convicted for the murder of his wife. This ace race-driver is fighting to prove that he is faultless. Suddenly cunning warden Hennessey played to perfection by Joan Allen places a condition before him on the basis of which he can get the clean cheat. He does not have any option other than accepting the proposal. To satisfy this notorious woman’s plan he has to succumb and works with his teammates only to find another foe in associate driver Machine Gun Joe played by Tyrese Gibson.
Thus Jensen agrees to become the recently killed Frankenstein and returns to the circuit of death racing. But One may feel bored to watch the same racing, same tracks, machine-guns firing and Mad Max-inspired car skirmishing. One may feel watching the whole Saw sequels. Director Paul W.S.Anderson of Resident evil, Alien vs. predator, event horizon fame could not match up as much as director Paul Bartel who infused vim and vigor into the original death race 2000.this movie do symbolize how machine dependent and blood thirsty people have become.
The character of Hennessey was portrayed aptly by the actress. She was highly paid for her role even at that dot of her line of business. Her every expression of astuteness and Jensen’s unaided looks ran shivers down the spine. Jensen is beaming with get-up-and-go attitude and his stunts are worth watching. Though the film is not on top of things as compared to the original and one may watch it for once.