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Thursday, March 19, 2009

Death Race (2008, USA/Germany/UK)

Seriously, has Jason Stathem ever made a movie in which he does not drive a car? If he did, would anyone care? (Okay - In the Name of the King. I answer my own question. But maybe there's a really bitchin' cart race or something.) Anyway, Death Race is terrible, and contains disappointingly less shirt-fu than Transporter 3, but hey – Stathem drives a car, he occasionally appears topless, Joan Allen slums it for no apparent reason, and . . . Ian McShane! Also, things blow up real good. What’s not to love, or at least vaguely enjoy on a hungover Sunday afternoon?

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