Death Race: Inferno
Carl Lucas / Frankenstein has won four of his races and needs to win one more to win his freedom. Before his final race, Lucas and his team, car and all, are transferred to another prison where they will compete in a Death Race in the desert. Also, at the same time, Ceaser runs into a marketer who wants to franchise the Death Race program.
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- Cast:
- Luke Goss , Ving Rhames , Danny Trejo , Tanit Phoenix , Dougray Scott , Robin Shou , Langley Kirkwood
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Please don't spend money on this.
Beautiful, moving film.
This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows
Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.
Convicted cop-killer Carl Lucas, aka Frankenstein, is a superstar driver in the brutal prison yard demolition derby known as Death Race. Only one victory away from winning freedom for himself and his pit crew. Death Race 3: Inferno is a film that wasn't mean't to be taken serious and yet somehow it has some cool twists in it's pocket, Luke Goss who does a great job in the main role and the rest of the cast also makes a great job too. The action sequences have a point and some of them are insane alongside a well made soundtrack. Overall Death Race: Inferno is not meant to entertain everyone but some will definitely have a good time. (8/10)
If you thought Death Race 1 & 2 were preposterous films, you ain't seen nothing yet: Part 3— Inferno—is more outrageous than the previous two outings put together, with increased violence, numerous sexy women, crazier car action, and extra explosive stunts, all of which, in my book, equals a good time.The film starts with current race owner Weyland (Ving Rhames) being forced to sell the rights for Death Race to ruthless businessman Niles York (Dougray Scott), who wants to turn the event into a global franchise, starting with a three day race in The Kalahari. Four times Death Race winner Lucas, AKA Frankenstein (Luke Goss), is an automatic contender, but with one more win guaranteeing him his freedom, Niles needs to ensure that his biggest draw doesn't make it to five.Even before the race begins, this film delivers in the excess stakes with a wonderfully exploitative battle to the death between 16 insanely hot women competing to be co-drivers in the race; the babes go crazy with an assortment of weapons, but gorgeous Katrina (Tanit Phoenix) steals the scene in stockings, suspenders and push-up bra, brandishing a flamethrower. Scorching stuff!With it's cross-country, multi-stage, three day race, numerous colourful characters, and wide variety of modified vehicles, the film stays relatively true to the spirit of Death Race 2000 (1975), which for a fan of the original cult classic like me, makes proceedings a lot more entertaining. While it never quite matches the satirical heights of Roger Corman's film, there are some neat tongue-in-cheek moments, plus a truly ridiculous twist ending in keeping with the insane nature of the whole series.Throw in a juicy decapitation, a full body explosion, a gratuitous shower scene for Tanit Phoenix, and Danny Trejo getting head from a sexy African nurse, and what you have is a lot of mindless fun. Roll on part 4
Luke Goss returns from the second film as the heroic convict in a future world where prisoners must race each other to the death (with the world tuning in on PPV, natch). He replaced Jason Statham's character (who clearly has better things to do) thanks to a convenient gimmick. Both of them raced under the handle "Frankenstein," wearing a metal mask supposedly hiding their hideous facial injuries. The gag comes from the Roger Corman original, but it holds up well, and we accept Goss as our new go-to guy with only a minimum amount of plot exposition.They also find a new hook for the race itself, after a corporate sleazebag (Dougray Scott) buys the company in charge of the whole thing. (Ving Rhames shows up to collect a check as the former owner, supposedly outfoxed in a subplot that no one need pay any attention to). Goss's Frankenstein soon finds himself shipped off the South Africa, home to a new Baja-style Death Race that the company eagerly wants to use him for. His pit crew Lists (Fred Koehler), Goldberg (Danny Trejo) and Katrina (Tanit Phoenix) come with him, and soon find themselves embroiled in the usual intrigue surrounding the race. The end of the film sets up has an attempt to make another Death Race film.
I just wanna open by saying I hate people who don't judge content by context, and in context, I thought this film was pretty sweet. Yes, there is the continuity problem and some extent of continuity problems- but come on, its a death race movie. Of course Death Race is crap if you judge it by normal movie standards, but death race is death race, man! And while this third installment wasn't a masterpiece, it still delivered enough entertainment for me to go "that was worth it". There's also that ending which, while some might say are cliché or cheesy or "Hollywood endings", I personally thought was awesome. Minus the ultra- numerous plot holes and impossible Hollywood stuff that happens because entertainment conflicts with realism, plus the constant bitching from Danny Trejo and Tanit Pheonix about friendship and deceit is really cheesy and annoying and cheesy and annoying, the only problem I got with this film is that Fred Koehler annoyed the crap outta me with that god awful character "Lists" and the things Lists says which is, as I mentioned before, annoying. However overall, this is a nice finish for a Death Race trilogy, if you bothered to see the first two you might as well see this as well. And yes, let's hope they don't make Death Race #4.