This movie is one hell of a ride from the beginning when we meet our main character to the end where he becomes Frankenstein, to the gorgeous navigator to the Savagery of the Death Match to the birth of this new type of combat from Goldstein and Lists (who I thought for longer than I should of thought his name was lisps) this movie sets up everything you want if you want more of the murder and deadly Death Race while setting up the legend that is Frankenstein which in the 3 movie is compounded on the legend, and the cruel but honest and fair business man of Weyland. And all of it compounding on Luke his family tiring to kill him the other drivers trying to kill him and the crazy host trying to make a quick buck off of him.

Lauren Cohan (Walking Dead) definitely makes this movie worth watching. No matter what happens, just having her on screen is a plus.Prisoners as entertainment is what it is all about. First, they fight to the death and, when the public tires of that, the Death Race is started.Winning the race gets complicated for Carl 'Luke' Lucas (Luke Goss), as kingpin Marcus Kane (Sean Bean) wants him dead before he can testify against him, and has a $1 million bounty on his head. he even gets partner Katrina (Tanit Phoenix) in on the act.What comes next is just too bizarre to believe, but it is certain that September Jones (Cohan) is on borrowed time.

Terrible. Watch Death Race again instead. Recycled cars, set and I suspect footage from the first one. That is all. But apparently I have to keep typing until I have typed 10 lines or more. Whoever cam up with this system obviously hadn't seen this film. There is nothing more to say. Don't waste your time. Seeing 80's pretty boy pop star Luke Goss getting a crispy coating slightly cheered me up but not for long. Is that enough typing yet? No, obviously not. So, how about those Bulldogs eh? Mrs z is watching Neverland as I type this. It's twice as good as Death Race 2 - I rate it 2 out of 10 - mainly because it IS NOT Death Race 2. Other than that it has very few good points apart from Bob Hoskins as Mr Smee. 10 lines yet?

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.