Death Race (2008) Reviews
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The movie is legitimately greasy, authentically nasty, with a good old-fashioned sense of laying waste to everything in sight -- including the shallow philosophizing and computer-generated fakery that have overrun the summer blockbuster.
Read the full reviewSoft sexual and racial jabs replace the more daring political commentary of the original, a crude classic from the Roger Corman factory.
Read the full reviewSmartly, Anderson makes some eclectic casting choices that keep the story from feeling as though it's populated by video-game characters.
Read the full reviewThis movie is about mayhem on wheels, tough guys viewers can root for, and villains whose comeuppances audiences crave. That's what Death Race is all about and, for what it is, it does a solid job.
Read the full reviewIt's the perfect end-of-summer film, and a sign that summer needs to end soon.
Read the full reviewThe best you can say about the movie is that it isn't boring. It's fast-paced, but it isn't really well made.
Read the full reviewAs hard as metal and just as dumb, Paul W.S. Anderson's Death Race couldn't be further from producer Roger Corman and director Paul Bartel's goofy, bloody 1975 original, "Death Race 2000."
Read the full reviewIt isn't so much a movie as a superheated, highly conductive miracle substance for the pure transmission of masculine aggression and misogyny.
Read the full reviewAn ill-advised and severely wussified remake.
Read the full reviewIt is an assault on all the senses, including common. Walking out, I had the impression I had just seen the video game and was still waiting for the movie.
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The Metascore® designation for this movie is 43
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