Also Opening This Weekend: ‘Death Race’

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An adrenalized mishmash of “Total Recall,” “Escape From New York,” and “Herbie Fully Loaded,” Paul W.S. Anderson’s “Death Race” takes place in a not-so-distant future in which overcrowded prisons have reached a breaking point and prisoners have become pawns in the nation’s most popular televised sport: a car race in which inmates must brutalize and kill one another on the road to victory.

Forced to participate in the race by the corporation that runs the prisons, ex-convict Jensen Ames (Jason Statham), a former Nascar champion, submits to the demands of a ruthless warden (Joan Allen) and dons the mask of the mythical driver Frankenstein rather than going back to jail for the rest of his life.


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