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02/27/09
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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10/18/08
Almost so bad it's good. Almost ...
08/21/08
The unfortunately simple message of Death Race merely says we're living in a time and place where financial corruption can allow us to prostitute ourselves to charge $250 to watch one guy violently off another for our viewing pleasure.
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
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
Anderson's take is ultraviolent, ridiculously stupid and kind of a rush. If your brain has an 'off' switch, you're well-advised to use it. And the carnage is relentless.
08/21/08
The movie makes no demands on its audience, except to cheer in all the right places.
08/21/08
Even though DEATH RACE is pretty bloody, and had some cool moments, the overall experience is mind numbing and a little depressing. It's sad to think that this is Anderson's best effort since 2002, and that it's still as bad as ever.
08/21/08
Director 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
The remake takes everything that was imaginative about the original feature and reduces it to an ear-splitting energy drink commercial, topped off with some of the worst filmmaking decisions to be found at the multiplex this year.
08/21/08
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
While the tone is right, the action is cobbled together in such a way that the only thing viewers will experience is motion sickness.
09/09/08
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
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
Death Race is a cinematic dreadnought: imposing on the surface, hollow at its core.
08/21/08
Top CriticA 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
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07/15/09
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