Now Death Race is not Death Race 2000 as the trailer shows. That can be good, but from remake history it's usually bad. Written and directed by Paul W.S. Anderson, Death Race is the story of an ex-con forced to compete in a brutal car race in which inmates must kill one another to win. The gritty locations and the suped up cars look great, but will is hold up to Roger Corman's Death Race 2000?
From what I've summed up, the difference between this modern take and the original is that the warden of the prison runs the show instead of the president of the United States did in the original, and the world is limited to Terminal Island much like The Running Man. I wonder if Paul went this route to avoid a political message and the off-the-wall killing of the weak and feeble for extra points like Death Race 2000 did.
But looking back at the original, that's what made the movie so different and completely hilarious. I couldn't keep my eyes off the screen just knowing that some innocent pedestrian can be seen as a point score for the drivers. Either way, I'll give Paul's version a chance, especially to see our hero don the mask that was once worn by the legendary Frankenstein, which was the name of our hero in the first movie. Death Race will be in theaters August 22nd.
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