
In 2012, amid economic chaos and high unemployment, Americans watch by the millions as criminals with life sentences race armored cars on Terminal Island. Two-thirds of the combatants die but the winner may earn his freedom. On the day he loses his job, steelworker Jensen Ames is arrested for his wife's murder. 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, ... (Full plot summary below)
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In 2012, amid economic chaos and high unemployment, Americans watch by the millions as criminals with life sentences race armored cars on Terminal Island. Two-thirds of the combatants die but the winner may earn his freedom. On the day he loses his job, steelworker Jensen Ames is arrested for his wife's murder. 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. Jensen makes the bargain. 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?
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| The Film YapNick RogersThe most epically loaded triple-cheeseburger action film since "Con Air." Driving-team maven Spiro Razatos handles second-unit duty, and flings gas, sweat and oil at the screen with the hard-cornered glee of having real Hot Wheels with which to play. |
| Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumSoft sexual and racial jabs replace the more daring political commentary of the original, a crude classic from the Roger Corman factory. |
| Screen It!Jim JudyDespite all of the action, fists, gunfire, explosions and more, it ends up just driving in circles, constantly banging into the uninspired barriers of mediocrity before crashing in a heap of bad filmmaking. |
| Dallas Morning NewsTom MaurstadThe movie gets its own Mad Max mojo working, but there's no real attempt at social commentary here -- these churls just want to have fun. |
| WJFK-FM (CBS Radio)Kevin McCarthyThe flick is mindless fun. Any guy who wears Chuck Taylors, kills people in amazing ways and just spouts off amazing dialogue is totally cool in my book. |
| Reeling ReviewsLaura Clifford...should give fans of the genre just what they're looking for. |
| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevyUnabashedly violent, this well-crafted remake is a giddily over the top B-movie, proficient at stringing together a series of vehicular demolition derbies. |
| Cinema SignalsJules BrennerIf you like testosterone with your octane, this is your adrenalin fix. If it's not the kind of rush you're into, don't blame writer-director Anderson who gives you what his title promises. |
| Can MagazineFred TopelIt's oddly satisfying, even though it does everything wrong. |
| Bangor Daily News (Maine)Christopher SmithIt's exactly what you expect...and that's part of its problem. There isn't one surprise in this movie, not one, which is a good reason why it feels so hammered out and routine. |