Anyway, this trailer really lays it all out there. Jason Statham used to be a famous Nascar driver, but Joan Allen decides she'd rather have him for her Death Races for some reason, so she kills his wife, frames him for it, and hooks him up with Ian McShane, who plays the most bad ass mechanic in the history of film. Then Statham starts a-racin' with a little help from a tune called "Welcome to the Jungle" (get it?!), and we see a montage of dazzling things: Spinning cars! Flying cars! Helicopters shooting people! Statham punching chumps! Bused-in cleavage (from "the women's facility")! Everything's exploding! Then someone gets impaled by a heavy artillery gun. Impaled by it. Because just shooting a guy with your gun is for girly men.

Bottom line: it's Running Man in cars, which is good enough for me. Jason Statham's movies may not be Oscar winners, but they're not Razzie winners either, and all of them are a lot of fun if you love action and need something to tide you over as the summer blockbuster season winds down. Basically, Death Race isn't The Dark Knight, but it's probably not Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever or anything. Plus, someone gets impaled by a gun. If that's not worth the 12 dollar admission, I don't know what is.

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