It's a guy's movie through and through, unashamedly based at the male demographic in every respect, from the tacked-on gore scenes to Statham's appealing hard man hero and the presence of numerous 'honeys', dressed in impossibly tight clothing and heaving cleavage at every opportunity. Forget subtlety, the traces of a genuine script, and acting: what we have here is a cartoon or video game put up on the big screen to be enjoyed with popcorn and then discarded afterwards as a noisy, violent snack. From the second the movie begins, we're in over our heads in a world of explosions, high speed pursuit, blaring and expletive-ridden rap music and muscled men shouting at and intimidating each other. Reviewed by Leofwine_draca 6 / 10 Noisy, violent, with some cool car racingÄEATH RACE is a noisy film. 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?. Sent to Terminal Island, he's offered an out by the steely and manipulative Warden Hennessey - race as the popular mask-wearing (but now dead) champion, Frankenstein, or rot in prison. On the day he loses his job, steelworker Jensen Ames is arrested for his wife's murder. Two-thirds of the combatants die but the winner may earn his freedom. In 2012, amid economic chaos and high unemployment, Americans watch by the millions as criminals with life sentences race armored cars on Terminal Island.