I know, most of the movies, games, whatsoever, is already on the market for quite a while, but nevertheless, I wanted to write a very little review about them. Don’t expect reviewing very oftem from me, I just like to do that occasionally.
Death Race
Friday night I fetched the movie “Death Race” from the video store and watched it with a friend. I do confess, I like Jason Statham, watched almost every movie with him. My favorites are Transporter, Revolver, Crank and Crank 2.
The plot is about the bankrupt USA and a private prison system. In those prisons the Geneva Convention doesn’t have any meaning at all, the prisoners do not keep any of their human rights. Jason Statham is a hard worker who is wrongly accused of killing his wife. As usual his fighting capabilities bring him into a decent position. The leader of the prison wants him to drive in the Death Race as the mysterious “Frankenstein”, who died during the last race. The “Death Race” is being shown internationally on TV where everyone can buy a subscription to view this inhuman show. It’s the prison’s cash cow. During the plot Jason discovers that one of the racers is reponsible for the death of his wife what leads him to kill this person. That’s all what is mentionable about the plot.
The movie has a lot of fast paced action, and is very very violent. No wonder why the German rating association rated the movie “18”.
The thing I didn’t like about the movie, and what I generally don’t like in movies, was the violence against women. Every driver got a sexy woman as his co driver. Her duty was to defend the car using smoke, napalm, etc. against the opponents. In the beginning of the movie I thought that “Frankenstein” was the only driver with a co driver, but one or two minutes later we saw a driver crashing his car against a wall and heard a woman screaming directly before the accident.
During the race the drivers are able to collect weaponry, shield, etc. by driving over a plate with the respective sign on it. One of the available signs spawns some kind of blocker to stop the opponent’s car and kill the occupants. You can see several scenes during the movie in which one of the cars crashes into one of these blockers. The moderator only speaks of a killed driver as if the women aren’t worth a dime during this race. Towards the end of the movie the asian co driver of a driver called “14 K” gets killed by a rotating spiked thing mounted on the wheels of a giant truck called “the dreadnought”. The spikes go through steel of the car and kill her very bloody and violently. I hated this scene. A few seconds later the car was destroyed with some kind of canon tower like those on a tank.
In summary, a nice, but very bloody and inhuman movie. Generally I don’t like this kind of movie. Nice cars, nice fights but a little bit too violent in my opinion. A decent clue that this scenery isn’t too unrealistic for the future of the US? Think about “Running Man” with Arnold Schwarzenegger which had a very similar setting. Let’s hope, things like these never become true.
Fallout. 3
Yesterday I started playing the Xbox 360 game Fallout. 3. By now I played this game for about six hours and I’m impressed. The game’s world really is giant, there are a lot of things to discover and lot of NPCs to talk to. So far I solved three quests and killed about 25 creatures which were mostly radiated versions of rats and dogs but even some human beings and so called super mutants which look human but aren’t human any more. The game’s setting is very morbid and dark. 200 years in the future humanity almost destroyed itself in a nuclear war. The survivers now have to face a very black and cold planet with almost no vegetation and mutated live forms which are mostly very aggressive.
Although I like the game I think I will stop playing it for a while as it is definitely no game for the warm sommer months. I think I’m gonna continue playing when the weather gets colder again 😉
Batman: Arkhan Asylum
I just got the demo version of the game from the Xbox 360 market place. It looks very interesting, especially for those who like the Batman universe. I loved the last two movies, Batman Returns and Batman: The Dark Knight, and I really do like the scenerie in the game. The Joker escaped from custody and now Batman has to prevent the worst and fight all the crazy inhabitants. He sneaks upon them, fights them directly and uses the general darkness in the asylum. I’m already thinking about buying the game. When I find it for a decent price I think this is going to be the next game I’m going to buy.