Top 10 Remakes We Don’t Need
By Robert Sims, Special to Hollywood.com
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Thursday, August 21, 2008
4. Death Race
The original: 1975
The remake: Aug. 22
Oh great American multitude and sports fans everywhere, director Paul W.S. Anderson has done the unthinkable. No longer can racers score points by killing pedestrians. And, instead of the Transcontinental Road Race, this to-the-death contest finds Jason Statham and Tyrese Gibson putting pedal to the metal behind prison walls. Huh? Cheap and cheesy, but nevertheless a real rush, Death Race 2000 employed a Gladiator-style sport to show how life is worthless in a police state. The prison setting and the elimination of the points system negates this--we know life has no value within the penal system. Throw in a reality-TV subplot and this Death Race sadly sounds like The Fast and the Furious by way of The Condemned. Gentleman, please don’t start your engines.
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