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.
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10/27/08
Death Race (2008)
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Reviews Counted:143
Fresh:61
Rotten:82
Average Rating:4.8/10
Consensus: Mindless, violent, and lightning-paced, Death Race is little more than an empty action romp.
Australian Theatrical Release:
Oct 30, 2008 Wide
US 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
Reviews for Death Race
Top CriticWhile not being the most awful filmic experience available, it's certainly one of the dumbest.
10/31/08
Top CriticA must-see for petrolheads and cineastes alike.
11/07/08
Top CriticLike a monster car rally without a Truckosaurus in sight, this is more about the smashes and crashes than the vehicles themselves
09/11/08
Top CriticPetrolheads and gorehounds, this backfiring blast of cinematic carbon monoxide is your film of the year.
10/31/08
Top CriticSocial 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.
08/20/08
Into the prison yard strolls the one and only Joan Allen. Yes, Oscar-nominated Joan Allen. Into this mess. To say Joan is slumming is an insult to a slum. Picture Bette Davis in Norbit or Judi Dench in Daddy Day Camp.
08/20/08
It is an assault on all the senses, including common. Walking out, I had the impression I had just seen the video game and was still waiting for the movie.
08/22/08
Top CriticDirector Paul W.S. Anderson is one of Hollywood's most consistent directors - he can always be counted on to make a terrible movie.
08/22/08
If you're considering seeing Death Race this weekend, send me ten bucks and I'll personally come to your house and punch you in the face instead. It will be more dramatically rewarding.
08/21/08
Like first love -- or maybe just a crowbar to the Adam's apple -- Death Race works fast and hits hard. A prison flick and a car chase movie at the same time? I am so there.
08/22/08
[D]irector Paul W.S. Anderson gives us gray cars racing around gray buildings underneath a gray sky. When I found myself longing for the eye-scorching hues of Speed Racer, I knew we were in trouble.
08/22/08
Car-crash porn for the modern audience.
08/22/08
Fast cars, machine guns, explosions, babes in hotpants – it's everything a 12-year-old boy could want in a movie.
09/26/08
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
DEATH RACE is going to please non-demanding moviegoers that love their flicks violent and action-packed. But this is like eating a generic brand of cereal, tastes okay until you have the real thing again.
08/19/08
We're in for a bumpy ride on Anderson's Bi-polar express where the line between homage and ripoff is never as blurry as his action sequences. His Ben-Hur chariot race would have needed nothing more than one set of horses, a couple human heads and a wheel.
08/21/08
This is still summer trash and no brain cells were injured or even fatigued in the making of it.
08/22/08
If a movie could drag its knuckles on the ground, Death Race would leave eight little tracks in the sand.
08/21/08
Top CriticBut Jason Statham can talk the torque as former racing driver Jensen Ames.
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
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