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Death Race 2
THIS sequel to the superior 2008 edition of Death Race is actually a prequel, telling the backstory of the first Frankenstein (a.k.a. the masked guy who died five minutes into the first film). Played by Luke Goss (of the so '80s boy band Bros), our future Frankenstein starts out as Carl Lucas, a wheel man whose participation in a bank heist lands him a prison term on the corporate-run penitentiary Terminal Island.
A crime kingpin (Sean Bean) wants him dead. An icy corporate player (Lauren Cohan) wants him to star in a reality show putting prisoners in gladiatorial combat against one another. In Lucas's corner: Danny Trejo as a hardened inmate with a propensity for building cars and Katrina (Tanit...