Spartan Race, Inc. Already have an account? Death Rage MovieTitle: Death Race (2008) 6.4 /10. Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Topics Yul Brynner, Thriller, Suspense, Action. Found this one as PD on google Thriller with Yul Brynner Audio/Visual sound, color. Death Race (Film) - TV Tropes. In this 2. 00. 8 film, Jensen Ames (Jason Statham) finds himself in prison, forced to compete in the Death Race, a brutal three- day closed- course pay- per- view event. The race features armored cars with machine guns, flamethrowers, missiles, oil slicks, smokescreens and everything else a group of prison thug grease- monkeys can think to attach to a vehicle.. A much darker and edgier film than the original Death Race 2. The 2. 00. 8 version did away with everything in the original except the theme of a killer car race, the names of the two champions (Frankenstein and Machine Gun Joe) and the fact that Frankenstein was not the original, but another driver in the same mask. As a quick tribute, David Carradine, who was Frankenstein in the old film, voiced . The prequels follow Carl . Escape isn't even dreamed of; even if you're a Death Racer, there are electric killswitches on the cars and guns, the guard towers are all fortified and have bigger arms than the cars, and, of course, it's an island — only way in or out is the long bridge that connects it to the mainland. Kalahari Prison in the third movie. As one of the guards puts it, . Her sister dies in her arms during the ? Go back to your daughter? The other drivers would be.. K becomes one in the prequels, he's also the last of the other Drivers to die. Badass Bookworm: Lists is a subdued version, he manages to save Jensen from Pachenko though he is quickly overpowered. He manages to get a few moments in the sequel as well. The Bait: Case is this in the end, to allow Jensen to escape as amends to the old Frankenstein. Batman Gambit: The Warden, while clearly in control, walks a very dangerous line. If Frankenstein wins, she is rid of Machine Gun Joe, activates the bomb, and finds herself a new Frank. If Joe wins, she is rid of Jensen, finds herself a new Frank, and disposes of Joe during his fifth race. If Frankenstein agrees to stay on board after his fifth win, she's guaranteed a long and continuous payday. One thing prevents it from being a Xanatos Gambit. If Jensen reveals her . Canada's extreme racing in the Rocky Mountains of Grande Cache, Alberta. A 125 kilometer event. Before you cross the finish line, you must commit to the starting line. Death Race movie info - movie times, trailers, reviews, tickets, actors and more on Fandango. The Death Race is the ultimate challenge, designed to present you with the unexpected and the completely insane! Nothing else on earth will challenge. Death Race movie available on Blu-ray, DVD, Digital HD and On Demand from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. Watch Death Race trailers and video and find out where to buy or view the Death Race movie. That gave him an incredible amount of power that he ultimately decided not to use, and instead escaped and had her blown sky high. Big Badass Rig: The Dreadnought. Joker and Nero drive absolutely massive trucks in 3, with a tank turret and an Anti- Air cannon as their respective weapons. Bilingual Bonus: 1. K. Especially his dying words (in English, translated with an equivalent Mandarin phrase in the subtitles). Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Most likely The Warden in the 2. Definitely September Jones in the Direct- to- Video prequel. Black Dude Dies First: Not counting anything before the first race, Siad fits the bill. Blood Sport: The glorious, gory idea behind the Death Races themselves. Boss Subtitles: Used to introduce the significant drivers in every movie. In the second movie, even the Red Shirt drivers get their own cool intros. In the third movie they even do it to 1. Book Ends: The second movie starts with an unnamed but attractive woman swimming in Marcus Kane's swimming pool at his mansion. Within a few minutes of the end, we go back to said pool, only this time, thanks to Triad honour, Kane's body is floating in it while the gunman puts a few extra bullets into him just to be sure. Breaking the Fourth Wall: Coach: . Averted by Weyland, who owns Terminal Island in 2, played straight by September Jones however. Darker and Edgier: The film is this compared to the original. Darkest Africa: The setting of the third movie, with the inmates residing at a prison in the Kalahari desert. The prisoners work in mines and the guards keep hyenas as guard dogs. During the races, local bandits even fulfill the classic . Interestingly, it was shot on location, and Satana, the guards, and all of the new drivers are played by local talent. Deadpan Snarker: Joker in the third movie, hence the name. Description Porn: Nearly everything Lists describes gets this treatment, such as the RPG- 7s on Machine Gun Joe's truck and the other drivers. Dirty Business: Case is in prison because she killed a good cop.. And his mistreated lover Satana organized the whole thing. Domestic Abuser: Case implies her husband was one, leading her to kill him. Jensen is framed as one, and Coach mentions at one point that he's met . More than a hint of Slipknot too . Her first scene has her take an unguarded walk through the yard, with not a single convict daring to lay a hand on her. One of them declares to his buddy his love for how ruthless she is. Driver Faces Passenger: Jensen can spend an awful long time looking at Case when they're talking for such a treacherous track and its deadly drivers. Dystopia: High crime and unemployment rates, and a high- rated television program is people murdering each other. Easily Forgiven: Jensen coerces Case into confessing her sabotage of the races, and does absolutely nothing about it despite her having actively attempted to ruin his reunion with his daughter and accidentally getting his predecessor killed. Didn't even say a word. Possibly Justified in that she was doing exactly what everybody else was doing: trying to get her freedom. And he needed her for the rest of the race. Eating the Eye Candy: Case mentions that Jensen looks better than the old Frank. Also played straight with several men scoping out the navigators, including Gunner and Lists. At one point in the third movie, Lists stares as if mesmerized at Katrina's cleavage. Eureka Moment: September Jones has one when she sees Lucas driving a car around the prison yard; that's where she got the idea of Death Race. Lucas has one in the third movie when Psycho asks if he's the first Frankenstein, and suggests that . This gives him the idea of setting up Niles York to be mistaken for Frankenstein. Even Evil Has Standards: Pachenko pretends to be this; he tells the prisoners in the chow hall that Jensen was a wife- killer and a . In the third movie, everyone is really creeped out by Psycho, who makes everything uncomfortably sexual. And it's implied he's in prison for sex crimes in the first place. Every Car Is a Pinto: Of course. It's a car movie so there are cars exploding all over the place. Evil Virtues: 1. 4K has fourteen deaths on his record and is a Triad member, but in a showing of Honour, he abides by the code of the Triads in the sequel - when Lucas saves his life, he owes Lucas a life in return. When Lucas is believed killed on the orders of his old boss, 1. K calls in a few favours and gets a Triad gunman to leave said boss's bullet- riddled body in his own fancy pool. Executive Meddling: In- universe, played completely straight by Hennessey's control of the races and her various attempts to rig them. Explosive Leash: How do you keep the prisoners from using their crazy cars to escape? Rig them to explode if they try! In the third movie the race has no boundaries, but straying off the intended course gets you an up- close and personal encounter with a heatseaking missile. The Faceless: Frankenstein is supposed to be this. Faking the Dead: Lucas' death is faked by September Jones in the second movie, to set him up as Frankenstein and assert control over him. In the third movie, Lucas fakes the deaths of Goldberg, Katrina, and Niles York as part of his escape plot. False Reassurance: Hennessey gives Frankenstein signed release papers, telling him all he he has to do now is survive and win. She never mentions she's changed the rules by planting a bomb or messing with the track, as she doesn't intend for him to do either. Fanservice: The reason Case and all of the other female navigators are brought in. The third movie has a huge melee between female convicts to decide who gets to be a navigator, and it's made of this — resident pervert Psycho is panting and wheezing throughout the event. The third movie also has the new producer Satana, who loves tight, revealing clothes. Frameup: Jensen didn't kill his wife; Hennessey had Pachenko do it for her so she could get Jensen to be Death Race's new star. Game Show: A particularly lethal one at that, with a clever mechanic to simulate the collection of power- ups that are seen in some racing video games. Hoist by His Own Petard: Some of the ways the show tries to off their competitors tend to backfire, or take out the other ways it tries to off them. The tanker- truck behemoth is taken out by a Death Head option placed to take out the competitors and the Warden gets killed by the explosive she tried to kill Frankenstein with. I Choose to Stay: Lists when the team escaped in 3. He had been institutionalized, being more comfortable in prison society than that of a free man. Which is why he was in Death Race 1. Also Coach in the first film. In- Name- Only: Apart from the fact that it features characters named . He later sends it back to her gift- wrapped and detonates it in her office, killing her and The Dragon. Last Name Basis: Hennessey has a first name (all we know is that it starts with 'C'), but everyone calls her . Then Psycho tells his navigator to change the station, and as soon as she does, the background music is replaced with a driving techno track. Legacy Immortality: Up to a certain point. In the third movie, Psycho incorrectly assumes that this has already been happening for some time, and inadvertently gives Lucas the idea of replacing Frankenstein in the first place. Ludicrous Gibs: Pretty Boy meets his end when he's blown up by a heatseeking missile. He wasn't in his car at the time, so you see bits of him flying well offscreen and easily a hundred feet into the air. Man on Fire: Colt. Psycho dies from fire in the third movie, ironically inches away from a lake. Mauve Shirt: Travis Colt turns out to be this. A little more attention is paid to him in the promos, and it's mentioned he's a record- holding ex- NASCAR driver which makes him . They set him up to be a long- runner, and he gets napalmed in the first race. K and Grimm also fall under this trope. Meaningful Name: Jensen Ames, like the car (Jensen Interceptor).
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