An orgasmic mix of on-road mayhem that plays at 1000 miles per hour! Marvel in some terrifically-choreographed stunt
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11/23/08
Death Race (2008)
42 %
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Reviews Counted: 137
Fresh: 57
Rotten:80
Average Rating: 4.8/10
Consensus: Mindless, violent, and lightning-paced, Death Race is little more than an empty action romp.
Runtime: 3 hrs 36 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
Theatrical Release: Aug 22, 2008 Wide
Box Office: $36,064,910
Synopsis: The Roger Corman-produced cult favorite DEATH RACE 2000 (1975) gets an update in this reworking from action director Paul W.S. Anderson (RESIDENT EVIL). In a role sure to please fans of his work in... [More]
Starring: Jason Statham, Joan Allen, Tyrese Gibson, Ian McShane
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
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Reviews for Death Race
Director Paul W.S. Anderson really isn’t known for Oscar contenders, but the guy understands over-the-top gratuitous violence better than most.
11/20/08
There's some fine action, but the film never gets within spitting distance of breaking any taboos or taste barriers, which, for a schlock spectacle, is like racing within speed limits.
10/31/08
While not being the most awful filmic experience available, it's certainly one of the dumbest.
10/31/08
Petrolheads and gorehounds, this backfiring blast of cinematic carbon monoxide is your film of the year.
10/31/08
It's all pretty senseless and senseless is how I felt at the end of it all, after being party to a sadistic and deadly race that relies on the killing of its participants for its entertainment.
10/27/08
Neither as bad as you fear it could be nor as good as you might hope.
10/18/08
Anderson finds a few interesting angles from which to cover things, but there's nothing really memorable or original to wow jaded action fans.
10/18/08
The main problem with the new film is that it tries to make the whole thing credible, whereas the original never tried to make any sense.
10/18/08
Basically, it's a videogame masquerading as a movie, but the action scenes are so loud and messily edited that they're tedious rather than tense. If it weren't so incoherent, it would be a classic.
09/26/08
Death Race is a travesty of the original film but it delivers enough explosions, violence and vroom-vroom action to ensure that it remains entertaining if you leave your brain in neutral.
09/26/08
Fast cars, machine guns, explosions, babes in hotpants – it's everything a 12-year-old boy could want in a movie.
09/26/08
But Jason Statham can talk the torque as former racing driver Jensen Ames.
09/26/08
Anderson serves up an unashamedly guilty pleasure that hits every note, particularly when the racing starts.
09/26/08
The remake illustrates only how low modern action movies can stoop. Necks are broken, guts eviscerated. Fans of impaling and decapitation will not be disappointed.
09/26/08
Banish all memories of the original and you’ll find this a slick throwback in the Doomsday mould. Tearing across the screen with all guns blazing, it’s disposable, enjoyable trash.
09/26/08
With face carbon-frozen in rage and mid-Atlantic scowl in place, the Brit export is fast proving himself the most reliably fun actor on the scene, standing a good chance of becoming this generation’s Charles Bronson if he keeps making movies like this.
09/26/08
Anderson's remake of the 1975 Paul Bartel cult film Death Race 2000 is surprisingly effective bonehead fare.
09/26/08
Once out of the starting grid, the film proceeds to edit the action so dementedly that one struggles to work out whose car just exploded, who flipped over and who's driving the one with the missile-launcher on the roof.
09/26/08
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January 03, 2009:
Social commentary on greed and war along with sexed up female con backseat drivers, is thin pretext for the incessant, at times visually surreal heavy metal havoc orgy of war machine, napalm shooting designer macho-mobile boy toy vehicular homicide. 
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December 28, 2008:
Social commentary on greed and war along with sexed up female con backseat drivers, is thin pretext for the incessant, at times visually surreal heavy metal havoc orgy of war machine, napalm shooting designer macho-mobile boy toy vehicular homicide.
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September 26, 2008:
Exclusive: David Carradine Cameo in Crank 2 says Statham
It's not just Death Race that boasts a cameo from legend David Carradine. According to star Jason Statham, speaking to RT this week ahead of the UK release of Death Race, the... More...
September 26, 2008:
RT Interview: Jason Statham Chats Death Race, Crank 2 and The Sweeney
RT catches up with Jason Statham to learn more about the Death Race and grill him on upcoming turns in Crank 2, Transporter 3 and the possibility of an appearance in Nick Love's... More...
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