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Starring Gerard Butler and Michael C. Hall, opened in theaters Friday, September 4. Disclaimer: I copied and pasted this from a post on a message board and don't really want to "tidy" it up so basically you are getting the raw, bare bones of what I really thought. No one is paying me to do this so who cares HOW I write it?

I can only think of two applicable words here: Hugely disappointing! I had seen Milo Ventimiglia plugging it on late night and at Comic Con and it sounded really awesome. I adore Milo...both as an actor and as a beautiful man ... and Michael C. Hall never fails to impress but both of their characters... Yikes. The way Milo was talking about the movie, I definitely thought that Rick Rape was going to be far more integral a character than the five absurdly creepy minutes we spent with him. Same with Ludacris. He had top billing and he on screen, cumulative total, fifteen minutes, maybe twenty.

And Ken Castle (Hall).... Wow! As villains go, he was one of the worst I've seen. And not in a good way. Meanwhile, WTF was with the detour through the set of High School Musical? Singing and dancing? Really? I had to pinch myself to keep from shrieking with hysterical laughter...which is okay if everyone else in the theater also thinks what you are laughing at was funny (or asinine) but apparently I was alone.

Between the two, relatively similar films, I say Death Race was 1000 times better. Same basic concept...Death row inmates fighting to the death to earn their freedom, rigged competition that prevents anyone from winning the prescribed number of battles, but Death Race was definitely better.