2010 · action · thriller · sci-fi
Death Race 2
Directed by Roel Reiné1h 40m2010
In the world's most dangerous prison, a new game is born: Death Race. The rules of this adrenaline-fueled blood sport are simple, drive or die. When repentant convict Carl Lucas discovers there's a price on his head, his only hope is to survive a twisted race against an army of hardened criminals and tricked-out cars.
Our read: Death Race 2 (2010) reads as a heavy, breathless, inventive action · thriller · sci-fi entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme action / thriller, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, cold.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- cold
- twisty
- epic-stakes
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