Like a monster car rally without a Truckosaurus in sight, this is more about the smashes and crashes than the vehicles themselves
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09/11/08
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
1 - 20 (sorted by critic A-Z; Australian critics are listed first)
Top CriticIt'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
Top CriticPetrolheads and gorehounds, this backfiring blast of cinematic carbon monoxide is your film of the year.
10/31/08
Top CriticA must-see for petrolheads and cineastes alike.
11/07/08
Top CriticWhile not being the most awful filmic experience available, it's certainly one of the dumbest.
10/31/08
Top CriticAlthough the film zips along efficiently enough, Death Race is never as much fun as it seems to think it is.
08/22/08
The movie is almost a lot of fun, were it not for the fact that Anderson lacks a knack for clarity and lightness; he shakes the camera too much and cuts so fast that the race becomes a blur.
08/21/08
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07/15/09
The story gets conviction off the performances of Statham and Allen and anyone looking for an end-of-summer crunchathon has definitely come to the right place.
08/22/08
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
Statham's films never promise to be something they're not or offer something they don't provide. Death Race is not an exception.
08/22/08
Car-crash porn for the modern audience.
08/22/08
a balls-to-the-wall tank-ful of amiable idiocy, fast-paced enough to keep anyone's eye on the road.
09/01/08
To a seasoned moviegoer who saw the original film, this version offers nothing new but updated armored cars.
09/06/08
The movie makes no demands on its audience, except to cheer in all the right places.
08/21/08
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
Death Race is a big dumb action flick and it wears that title like a badge of honor.
08/24/08
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
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
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January 03, 2009:
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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:
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