...enough turbo-charged adrenaline to satisfy...the No Fear t-shirt crowd.
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Death Race (2008)
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Reviews Counted: 106 Fresh: 42 Rotten:64 Average Rating: 4.8/10
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Mindless, violent, and lightning-paced, Death Race is little more than an empty action romp.
Rated: R [See Full Rating]
Theatrical Release: Aug 22, 2008 Wide
Box Office: $12,621,090
Synopsis: Jason Statham leads the cast of an action-thriller set in the post-industrial wasteland of tomorrow, with the world's most brutal sporting event as its backdrop. A penitentiary full of felons has inspired the jailers to create a grisly pastime ripe for lucrative kickbacks. Now,... [More]
Genre: Action/Adventure
Starring: Jason Statham, Joan Allen, Tyrese Gibson, Ian McShane, Natalie Martinez
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
Screenwriter: Paul W.S. Anderson
Producer: Jeremy Bolt, Paul W.S. Anderson, Paula Wagner
Screenwriter: Paul W.S. Anderson
Producer: Jeremy Bolt, Paul W.S. Anderson, Paula Wagner
Reviews
Running an economical hour and 45 minutes, Death Race is all muscle, no fat. Anderson and his exceptional cast tell their tightly built story and get out of the way.
08/29/08
The best of all Paul W.S. Anderson's films, although how much lower we can set the bar, I don't know.
08/28/08
Through B-movie audacity, Statham and Anderson heighten Death Race into a skull-crusher and a mind-bender. But you’ll need a keen movie sense to recognize their underappreciated talents.
08/27/08
The new Death Race is awash in a kind of gray-brown desperation-chrome look. Any sense of cheeky, tasteless fun has vanished.
08/27/08
Utilizing an inane, effects-driven script, it's filled with brutal, blood-splattered vehicular mayhem.
08/27/08
A painful imitation of Roger Corman's cross country racing flick sans the intelligence, disturbing violence, entertainment value, energy, and... well everything else that makes movies good...
08/26/08
Joan Allen turned 52 two days before this film opened; here's assuming this is one birthday present she'd like to return.
08/26/08
Cars, babes and guns. Stop, that's enough to entertain. It should have been an overly violent, comical Mario Kart. This is not a remake, this is a title take.
08/26/08
A rabble-rousing, futuristic gas guzzler, directed with the pedal to the metal and a surprising minimum of visual incoherence.
08/25/08
Death Race is a big dumb action flick and it wears that title like a badge of honor.
08/24/08
fun, no more predictable than absolutely necessary, and for racing fans, there's the jargon of exactly how one soups up a Mustang for mortal combat
08/23/08
It's exactly what you expect...and that's part of its problem. There isn't one surprise in this movie, not one, which is a good reason why it feels so hammered out and routine.
08/23/08
The real charm, if you will, comes to the high-octane action in the racing segments. And it is here that the film is quite simply awesome.
08/22/08
If you like testosterone with your octane, this is your adrenalin fix. If it's not the kind of rush you're into, don't blame writer-director Anderson who gives you what his title promises.
08/22/08
Although the film zips along efficiently enough, Death Race is never as much fun as it seems to think it is.
08/22/08
It's just sly enough to transform a predictable experience into something close to gripping.
08/22/08
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