Death Race

(2008)

★ 6.3 IMDb · 4,258 votes

Genres: Action, Thriller, Sci-Fi

Year: 2008

Runtime: 105 мин

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Director: Пол У. С. Андерсон

Cast: Джейсон Стейтем, Джоан Аллен, Иэн Макшейн, Тайриз Гибсон, Натали Мартинес, Макс Райан, Джейсон Кларк, Фредерик Колер, Джейкоб Варгас, Джастин Мадер

Plot

Terminal Island, New York: 2020. Overcrowding in the US penal system has reached a breaking point. Prisons have been turned over to a monolithic Weyland Corporation, which sees jails full of thugs as an opportunity for televised sport. Adrenalized inmates, a global audience hungry for violence and a spectacular, enclosed arena come together to form the 'Death Race', the biggest, most brutal event.

In 2012, amid economic chaos and high unemployment, Americans watch by the millions as criminals with life sentences race armored cars on Terminal Island. Two-thirds of the combatants die, but the winner may earn his freedom. On the day he loses his job, steelworker Jensen Ames is arrested for his wife's murder. Sent to Terminal Island, he is offered an out by the steely and manipulative Warden Claire Hennessey - race as the popular mask-wearing (but now dead) champion, Frankenstein, or rot in prison. Jensen makes the bargain. As the three-stage race approaches, he realizes that the whole thing may be a set-up - can an anonymous man behind a mask get revenge and win his release?