'Death Race' Panned, Makes $12.6 Million
by CP Staff
Last weekend's debut of "Death Race," a futuristic action-adventure movie starring Jason Statham as an ex-convict forced to compete against prison inmates in a brutal, freedom-or-death car race, raked in 12.6 million in receipts.
The film uses a number of Mad Max-inspired vehicles to wreak on-screen havoc and destruction as high speed action rolls on with all the subtlety of a Terminator flick.
Somewhere, under the relentless carnage, lies a plot. Statham is a speedway driver that ends up in jail and gets a chance to run the in race for freedom. Yep, that's about all you need to know.
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This movie will likely do better as a rental than in the theaters, simply because it falls into the category of a movie that appeals to most guys, but few want to admit it.
This kind of guy-flick is typically panned by the movie critics, who often forget that 'entertainment' is different things to different people, and that not everybody wants to spend their money on socially-aware, environmentally-themed romances.
This film reminds me mightily of Nick Cage's 2007 movie, Ghost Rider. While I didn't go and spend huge amounts of money to see it in a theater, I did buy the DVD as a previously-viewed edition. It was enjoyable and easy to watch. Oh yea... None of my friends refused it, when I passed it around either.
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