Average Rating: 6.8/10
Reviews Counted: 33
Fresh: 28 | Rotten: 5
Death Race 2000 is a fun, campy classic, drawing genuine thrills from its mindless ultra-violence.
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Critic Reviews: 4
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 1
Death Race 2000 is a fun, campy classic, drawing genuine thrills from its mindless ultra-violence.
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Cult hero Paul Bartel directed this low-budget satire in which America's passion for cars, violence, and sporting events are finally brought together in one convenient package. In the not-so-distant future, the United States has become a totalitarian regime overseen by the charming but sinister Mr. President (Sandy McCallum), who, in order to satisfy the masses' need for entertainment (and to quench their thirst for violence), has created a new national sport -- the Death Race, a nationwide road
R, 1 hr. 18 min.
Apr 1, 1975 Wide
Jul 13, 2010
New World Pictures
All Critics (33) | Top Critics (4) | Fresh (31) | Rotten (6) | DVD (21)
Behold the power of cheese!
The story, about a road race in the not-too-distant future for which the drivers are given points for running down pedestrians, becomes an elaborate and telling fantasy about our peculiar popular entertainments. Fine work carved from minimal materials.
Script, from an Ib Melchior story, makes its satirical points economically, and director Paul Bartel keeps the film moving quickly.
Top CriticIn the end, it reveals itself to have nothing to say beyond the superficial about government or rebellion. And in the absence of such a statement, it becomes what it seems to have mocked -- a spectacle glorifying the car is an instrument of violence.
Top CriticA goofy piece of over-the-top mayhem with half a brain.
A terrifically entertaining movie, and a sharp, funny social commentary from start to finish.
Roger Corman is the master of doing a lot with a little, and Death Race 2000 is but one shining example of the filmmaker's know-how.
Director Paul Bartel perfected his brand of blackhearted humor on this ragged production, overcoming budgetary restraint with inspired moments of B movie spectacle...
The conception and execution are top-notch low-budget trash.
Death Race 2000 is as Corman as his B-grade action pics come, with cars flying through the frame, blood spilling behind them, and overnight pit-stops for some sex ("navigators" in each car keep their drivers juiced up).
One of King Corman's finest pictures.
It has a comic strip premise which is neverthless wholly credible in a sick sort of way.
Unwatchable car wreck of an exploitation film.
Fun, fun, fun!
Superior drive-in exploitation fare, this violent, campy action flick presents Carradine as Frankenstein, a scarred road warrior in black leather suit and cape.
Time has tamed it somewhat, but it's still loads of fun.
a must see for so many people - science fiction fans, satirists, action movie buffs, 70s film aficionados and anyone who likes an over-the-top film
Strange movie makes strange bedfellows: Corman and Disney
Paul Bartel's Death Race 2000 is everything it is cracked up to be.Behind all the gratuitous violence, dark humor, attractive women, and driving, which sums up the title nicely, there is more to the story than just racing across America killing people. While it isn't much, it gives this picture a little more to work
May 28, 2008
Super Reviewer
One of my favourite sci-fi action movies of the 70s! It's a Corman produced picture, and has a good cast. It's also a futuristic comedy, which makes it even better. Check it out.
September 5, 2010Super Reviewer
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