This is both a bad film and a bad influence, and on many levels. Still, for all of its brainlessness, it somehow manages a train-wreck hold on attention.
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10/09/09
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.
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
usporedba originala i remakea %u0107e dati jasnu prevagu starijem film
07/15/09
...sets itself apart from its campy predecessor right from the get go.
07/09/09
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02/27/09
pos tha itan to Pimp My Ride an to analambanan isobites sosiopatheis, toytestin apolaystika sadistiko kai afrena adrenaliniko
01/20/09
While the premise creates plenty of entertaining opportunities for violence and destruction, how much better could this have been as a true "cannonball run" coast-to-coast..?
01/18/09
An orgasmic mix of on-road mayhem that plays at 1000 miles per hour! Marvel in some terrifically-choreographed stunt
11/23/08
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
A must-see for petrolheads and cineastes alike.
11/07/08
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
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10/18/08
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
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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:
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September 26, 2008:
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