The best of all Paul W.S. Anderson's films, although how much lower we can set the bar, I don't know.
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08/28/08
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
41 - 60 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
An adrenaline rush from start to finish
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
Paul W.S. Anderson makes one kind of movie: the shitty kind.
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
It's oddly satisfying, even though it does everything wrong.
08/22/08
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
A series of really wonderful kills that kept me highly entertained and a gay love story that could be the best since Brokeback Mountain.
08/22/08
Let Death Race serve as a warning, or maybe an inspiration, to any TV producer who says she'd kill for high ratings: Why not stage a pay-per-view car race in which prisoners compete to stay alive on the course?
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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September 26, 2008:
RT Interview: Jason Statham Chats Death Race, Crank 2 and The Sweeney
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