Well this is what you would expect.... a bad sequel. But wait change of pace America this is not what you think, instead it's a bad prequel. It was a surprise to me to see a prequel and in fact it made the movie a little bit better. If you never saw the first movie I would tell you to defiantly watch that movie first and just skip this movie. I actually enjoyed the remake of Death Race starting Jason Statham. Because of the first movie being a good watch is the only reason why I gave this movie a shot. Now the acting is bad and the race sequences in this movie don't live up the first. The only shining light of this movie is Danny Trejo, simply because he is amazing. I always love to watch Danny in his small roles and always thought he adds something to the movies he is in. The main character Carl "Luke" Lucas is a getaway man who goes along with a bank robbery job, gets caught and then gets sent to Terminal island. Now the movie takes place in the future and in the future all prison systems are privately owned, because of this Terminal island holds death fights for profit. At one point in the movie Carl gets into a car and drives around the island. Now he didn't steal the car or anything but instead the inmates are used as cheap labor to fix them up and sell them. As he is driving around the evil bad lady who runs the death fights sees him and decides that death fights are not getting enough audience hits and creates death race. The concept is if the prisoner wins 5 races they will be set free but there is always the chance they can die. Carl wins 2 races and on the third he gets caught in a car fire, survives and is then forced to become a new driver called Frankenstein. At this point the movie ends and leads into the first movie. If you enjoyed the first movie I would say give this one a shot, otherwise just pass on it.
Rating: 2 Yeti roars out of 5
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