AboveDeepBuggy Some things I liked some I did not.

Nessieldwi Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

Livestonth I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

Jenna Walter The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

SnoopyStyle In the near future, prisons are private. The Weyland Corp is the new owner of the Terminal Island Penitentiary. unscrupulous reporter September Jones (Lauren Cohan) happens upon a prison riot and comes up with an idea for Weyland (Ving Rhames). Death Match is a pay-per-view event pitting competing prisoners in combat. After awhile, the ratings start going down. Getaway driver Carl 'Luke' Lucas (Luke Goss) leads a bank robbery for crime boss Markus Kane (Sean Bean). It goes wrong and Luke is imprisoned. Markus orders his murder before he can snitch. This is a prequel. Luke would become Frankenstein and die in the 2008 reboot.There is some good action but everything in between is weak. Sometimes, the action becomes a chaotic mess. In general, the action is still there but inferior to 2008. Luke Goss is not charismatic as the lead. He's a no name actor more useful for support. There is a bait and switch with the bigger actors. Rhames and Bean are more or less supporting actors. This is pretty much what one expects from a straight to DVD fare.

lordhumble-40635 On the same theme i would recommend the dutch movie "Temmink". I fear there is even a similarity close to plagiarism....http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133228/. This one is better though. Mainly thanks to famous actor Jack Wouterse. It's harsh. It's brutal. And it spends more time and attention to the main character's doubts, thoughts and choices. Worthwhile, if you like this sequel of death race. Starring also Jacob Derwig. He could easily start a career in the US. And note the very tasteful depiction of the inevitable violence. As i'm forced to write a minimum of 10 lines, I'd finally say: Viva Holanda!

richieandsam DEATH RACE 2That is not the right title to the movie. Death Race 2 is set before the original Death Race, so this be called something different... Death Race Zero or Death Race: The Beginning would have been clearer.The movie is about Frankenstein, the fan favourite driver from the first movie that Jason Statham has to take over from due to an untimely death. This movie is like an origins movie. It explains why Frankenstein was in prison in the first place, why he wears the mask and also explains how the sport, Death Race, was created.This is a very good movie considering it is a prequel. I would go as far as to say this is as good as the original movie. It is very rare that you get a sequel or prequel to be as good or better.The action was really good in this. It is a violent movie with plenty of fight scenes and gruesome deaths. There is some negative things about this though... the fight scenes were well choreographed, but was badly shot. In a lot of the fight scenes, you can clearly see that they are not hitting each other. They are punching miles away from their opponent. I thought this could have been done a lot better.The driving and the cars are easily as good as the first film. I loved this element to the movie. It was all well done.This movie has a couple of faces from the first movie, but also has some new famous faces too. The movie stars Luke Goss as Carl Lucas. I have seen Luke in a couple of films now, and I have to say that he is a really good actor. Who would have thought it? That terrible singer from that rubbish boy band from the 80's can actually act! Other cast members are Lauren Cohan, Sean Bean, Ving Rhames and Danny Trejo. The acting was really good throughout. I can't fault anyone on this.Death Race 2 was a lot of fun and deserved more publicity. I feel that this should have done better. I will be watching both of these movies again in the future. They are movies that you can watch with a load of friends and really enjoy them.I really hope they don't make any more though. I don't want too much of a good thing as I think it will ruin it.I will give this film 7 out of 10."You kill me, I kill you."For more reviews, please like my Facebook page:https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ordinary-Person-Movie- Reviews/456572047728204?ref=hl

Michael_Elliott Death Race 2 (2010) * 1/2 (out of 4) This direct-to-DVD flick is being sold as a sequel to the 2008 film DEATH RACE but it's actually a prequel and tries to show the early history of the man who would become known as Frankenstein in the following film. In this film, Carl Lucas (Luke Goss) gets sent to prison after killing a cop in a botched robbery and once there he realizes that a female wacko is filming death matches between the prisoners. When the TV ratings on this drops she decides to make it more interesting by offering a race to the death, which would give prisoners their freedom. DEATH RACE 2 has a lot of tough talk but the film never backs any of it up and in the end we're left with a pretty lifeless movie with no guts or glory. The biggest problem is that everything in this movie is pretty tame. This includes the story, the action, the violence and the blood. Now, I understand that the 2008 film was a "pretty" version of DEATH RACE 2000 but why on Earth would they deliver something so tame in this prequel? I mean, you know you're going straight to DVD so why not deliver something fun, wild and over-the-top? The filmmakers didn't even have the guts to show Lucas as a bad guy and just wait until you see how they filmed the cop getting killed. The producers wanted to make sure that you still liked this guy no matter what. Even worse is an incredibly awful love story that is thrown in for no apparent reason. There's a reason romantic comedies don't have bloody violence so the producers of this film should have realized that the people renting a movie called DEATH RACE 2 don't want romance. Goss isn't too bad in his role but he's really not given much to do. Ving Rhames and Danny Trejo both pick up paychecks, which they both deserve. The rest of the supporting cast is pretty much what you'd expect in a film like this. DEATH RACE 2 isn't a complete bomb but it's pretty useless and fails on most levels that should make it a fun exploitation film.