We know that Ian McShane played Frankenstein’s pit boss in the original, along with List. Well, if you’re reading this review I assume you saw Death Race and are interested about if the sequel lives up to the high standards of the original *sarcasm* so I’m just going to assume you know all the characters and such I’m about to mention. Whenever a Rhames picture opportunity presents itself, you must take it. Little does Lucas know, he is destined to be one of the most infamous racers of all time under the guise of Frankenstein that is eventually bestowed upon him. With options dwindling, he competes in the race and strikes a relationship with his navigator Katrina (Tanit Pheonix). Lucas is caught in the middle of all this when Jones takes an interest in his skills while at the same time he learns Kane has put a $1 million bounty on his head. 1 match gives, she conceives another money-making idea: a three-day race where prisoners are given heavily armed cars and five wins grants you freedom. When market shares drop as people become bored with the lack of action a 1 vs. September Jones (Lauren Cohan) is the cut throat promoter for the Weyland corporation and creator of the show. In jail at Terminal Island, he learns the inmates are forced to compete in a program called Death Match, thanks to the privatization of jails and the commercialization of violence. While managing a bank robbery, Lucas encounters complications and long story short ends up getting arrested. Carl Lucas (Goss) plays right hand to local crime mogul Markus Kane (Bean). Well, as I already stated, this is an origin for Frankenstein, the racer Jason Statham’s character takes over as. Just throw some neat looking cars on-screen, kill some people, make things explode, and voila! Death Race 2. But I guess that’s asking too much from a straight to DVD film about a race where people die. I want the writer to show they actually took all parts of the prequel into consideration so they tie into the original story. Death Race 2 ends during the worst possible scene possible, and just expects you to accept the introduced characters go away in place of the instituted characters in the original Death Race.
This only bothers me because it feels like lazy cinema. But when there were blatant inconsistencies and vanishing characters, how can you have a proper origin? Characters are introduced in the prequel that are nowhere to be found after. Actually being a prequel, the only returning faces to the cast are Lists, played by Frederick Koehler, and 14K, played by Robin Shou, because it’s supposed to tell the story of the creation of Frankenstein. If it wasn’t for him I never would have watched Death Race, and if it wasn’t for Death Race I never would have watched its straight to DVD sequel Death Race 2: Electric Boogaloo. Notable Cast: Luke Goss, Sean Bean, Ving Rhames, Danny Trejo
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