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All in all I thought that this was a good movie with enough action to keep my interest and some good, bloody death scenes. Recommended for the carnage factor and mindless fun.
Better than I thought, although I wasn't looking for much, but not a bad movie. Thought the ending was too easy and fast for all the other stuff that happened in the film, and could have been a little more violent like the rest of the film, but I understand. Main beef is that I wish they would have went the original film with the cross country race and taking out pedestrians, instead of the whole criminals in a race routine. Felt like a cop-out so you could go yeah they're criminals racing to the death so who cares, instead of a race where the pedestrians are the targets and everybody is watching their butts.
Not a bad film, just could have went with the original and been a better film.
If you want to have fun watching a movie with criminals driving cars and trucks wanting to kill each other with blood and a little gore then this is your movie. Better than I thought. Worth watching for a good time.
Paul W.S. Anderson is awesome, he's directed some of my favorites.....resident evil, event horizon, AVP, and now DEATH RACE which takes the concept of the original and takes a different, more realistic take on the event. with jason statham as Frankenstein this movie is a hit with massive explosions and awesome races!!! pick up and buy this one!!!
Posted By: Ardeth Blood at 2:17pm, December 25, 2008
I saw this at the cinema opening weekend, and thought it was okay for a remake. I rented the Unrated Extended Version only to find that it was the exact same from the cinema.
Joan Allen in the villain was a genius move.
The down side was it moved too fast, as in the cameras zipped along too quick to really see much of anything.
BD review focus's too much on the details when this movie is simply all about over-the-top fun shoot em up bullshit. Story doesn't matter. Nothing matters but the cars, the pretty well placed and entertaining death scenes and the non-stop action. Gave me exactly what I was expecting to watch and was happy for that. Dont understand how someone could say this is the ONLY good movie Anderson has made tho... Anderson did Event Horizon and he'll never top that again.
this movie is not bloody and disgusting . what the this doing here ?
Posted By: DiegOmen16 at 11:05pm, November 27, 2008
The movie was fun popcorn flick it haves thrills and nonstop action i cant wait to see it kick ass on bluray i dont know what the hell was mr disgusting thinkin when he reviewed this movie dont listen to him just watch it yourself and youll be really surprised at the ONLY good movie Paul W.S Anderson has ever made.
the crappiest movie i ever seen to have guns and cars
Posted By: TheRise24 at 1:30am, September 30, 2008
In A Nutshell Death Race Is An Over The Top Entertaining Action Film.
Posted By: FleshTrap666 at 3:33pm, September 16, 2008
Was actually ALOT better then expected, good enough that having to watch it twice didn't bother me at all! It's nothing but a dumb action movie, if you go expecting anything else your going to be seriously upset. In a movie like this...just having a story period is a big plus. Not to mention other then the Deathrace itself, the world the film takes place in is very believable.
But seriously this should not of been called Deathrace... Deathrace was a CROSS COUNTRY race where contestants scored points by running over pedestrians. Yes yes yes I know...it is a REMAKE and we should respect the Writer/Directors VISION!! But...seriously you could of replaced the Prison with an Asylum, and made all the Drivers cold blooded killers, and called it "Twisted Metal" the movie.."Twisted Metal:Black anyway"
Posted By: napalmfuzz at 12:03pm, September 8, 2008
This film was better than I expected it would be, but still not that great. Judging by the red band trailer, i'd say we will probably see an UNRATED dvd/blu release. Seems like alot of the gore was cut out of the theatrical version.
If you havent seen it yet, wait for the DVD release, and give it a rental, its good for a pizza and beer night, but its not something you'll be ranting and raving about afterwards.
5/10
Posted By: KingOfHorror at 10:20pm, September 5, 2008
Better than I Expected! Fun Friday Night Crash And Burn Movie!
"'Death Race' was written and directed by Paul W.S Anderson, a filmmaker whose toiled away trying to make the perfect movie based on a video game. I'll give you a few moments to process that before I say…yeah, that's right, he's made some really terrible movies. 'Death Race' actually looks sort of fun though, definitely a racing film that will erase the memory of the 'Speed Racer Technicolor Dream-Coat' at least, and Jason Statham is usually so good in movies like this that he'd make "Fast and the Furious" look like "Beach Blanket Bingo" all by himself. This may be Anderson's first real entertaining movie, but there has been some question as to whether it really is his movie. Writer Adam Stone says Anderson stole his work, leading to some speculation of plagiarism and possibly to a denied wide release. So there are two questions, one of course will be answered if your reading this review and the other will be is this movie even worth stealing in the first place?
Statham stars as Jensen Ames, a former professional racer turned Steel-mill worker. It's the future, 2012, and work is hard to find. Ames is laid off from the steel-mill and when he comes home, his wife is murdered by a masked assailant and he is framed for it. Months later he finds himself in Terminal Prison, the bitch to a domineering warden named Hennessey (Joan Allen). Since the prison system has become overcrowded, the prison participates in a death race, a pay-per-view event that allows people to watch cons in cars equipped with machine guns, rocket-launchers, napalm, and other goodies try to kill each other for sport. Hennessey wants Ames to drive and wear the mask of a famous and much-loved competitor, Frankenstein, so that her viewer ratings can stay up, and she makes the promise that if Ames wins the race, he can have his freedom. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that Ames will become the new Frankenstein and its not long before he is going up against violent and vicious competitors, including three time winner Machine Gun Joe (Tyrese Gibson).
Watching this movie I could just imagine a group of 13-year old boys sitting behind me, each wearing his WWF and Stone-Cold Steve Austin shirts, having a gay old time with it. So much so that I'm surprised the movie actually went for an R-rating. It's incredibly dumb and for the most part un-involving, but going back to the R-rating, it does have some decent carnage. The movie is shot in a dreary blue setting, letting us know that the world is no longer a warm and loving place but a cold, violent and ugly looking cess pool. The story means next to nothing and is mostly a three-stage race that gets increasingly redundant as it goes along. Cars go around in circles really fast, blood, bullets, and explosions ensue, people meet grisly deaths and then everything happens all over again. "Death Race" does have a few actual dramatic car duels however, one where Ames goes up against the man that killed his wife and another when he and Machine Gun Joe go up against a tank. The rest is take it or leave it stuff that will interest you only if your really gung-ho about your blood, guts, and souped-up killer cars.
Statham is perfect for this type of role though, giving Ames a gruff, hardcore quality that's even more high octane than the cars. And Joan Allen is his perfect antagonist. Icy, manipulative, and devious, she makes Hennessey one of the better villains to come out this summer. Its just too bad she's not apart of a better movie. And like always, Ian McShane is gravel-voiced testosterone. I think that Tyrese Gibson is falling into a pattern here and I hope someone takes him out of it soon. As he showed in 'Baby Boy', he is a much better actor than being the sidekick in racecar movies.
'Death Race' has some fun and the actors do what they can, but its not so much a movie than an excuse to watch carnage and fast cars. When you see an action movie that's this dumb, you know the summer is pretty much over." --C-Younkin, imdb.com
When you know you’re going to see another pointless action movie, and you know it will have little to no redeeming value minus the action, and it STILL sucks, the problem has to be the action.
From start to finish, the movie was bland and boring. I wanted to leave after the first 5 minutes as it was, and after that it was like sitting through one of those bad documentaries at school for the other 2 hours. The action was predictable and just downright boring, generic, and pathetic. Add to that the utterly ridicules dialogue scenes that told you things you already know from the credits mixed with clichés from every single action movie ever freaking made, and it felt like I was watching a made-for-TV drama, not an action movie. You’ve seen this movie before. Hundreds of times.
The acting, as well, was horrid. The chick they got to play the cliché “bad prison woman” reminded me of Martha Stewart . . . dumbed down and made even more cliché than the real woman. At one point I had to say: “Look, it’s Mr. Evil!” as he cackled with his huge nose casting a cliché shadow. Everything that could have been menacing in this film was laughable.
There is no more blood in this movie than PG-13 fares like Cloverfield, and it wasn’t as violent as the PG-13 The Dark Knight. Every scene was a cut-off scene without anything graphic happening, and at some points even the fist fights were cut-off scenes. I cannot think of any movie with “violence” as utterly pathetic as this one. It barely earned its R-rating through a minimal amount of blood, and the rest was PG all the way.
I do not know why anyone would find anything in this entertaining. There was maybe a couple action scenes, and the rest was your mother’s cliché TV drama. Am I the only one who wishes action movies were, you know, action-packed anymore?
so u got death race this movie is not a remake by any means but it is the most fun i have had going to the theater in a long time this is the die hard action movie with some nice gore fast cars and lots of bullets and i do mean lots it was fun simple plot but just a great time check it out.........
Sorry but this was a fun film. I was never a fan of the old one, my friends and I use to make fun of it. And I'm a Roger Corman fan, I think its a step down in his career or the beginning of his step down in his movie library compared to all his Poe films. Anyway this film was fun, not the best but it was good, my friends and I enjoyed it.
NOT AS BAD as you might think.It has its fair share of gore and the story is mindless but I still had a great time.Don't let the reviews keep you from seeing a modern day B-movie that I think delivers.You just might find yourself having fun.
Posted By: nohandtyper at 12:06pm, August 23, 2008
Awesome! It was so much fun to watch and a lot of the traps were cool. I also liked the idea of the swords, shields, and skull plates. It reminded me of Twisted Metal. BTW, fuck everyone who rags on this movie. It was awesome!
Posted By: thedescent08 at 1:30am, August 22, 2008
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