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2008
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Positive Reviews
28
Negative reviews
37
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2.0
Yes, that Joan Allen, clearly having fun taking a profane break.)
Av Club
4.5
I think I dont give Paul W.S. enough credit for being a fairly talented action director, even if hes not the best handler of actors or the best script ..
Den Of Geek
2.0
That was the anarchic 70s, baby; this is the conservative now, delivered by the genre specialist who directed blank faced destruction in Resident Evil ..
EW
0.6
It 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 m ..
Rogerebert
3.0
DEATH RACE isnt high art, but its an impressive piece of exploitation moviemaking.
Common Sense Media
2.5
President Trump wants to sign off on most if not all of the documents revoking the security clearances, said one senior White House official, who indi ..
2.0
Anderson finds a few interesting angles from which to cover things, but theres nothing really memorable or original to wow jaded action fans.
Screen Daily
2.0
Anderson finds a few interesting angles from which to cover things, but theres nothing really memorable or original to wow jaded action fans.
Screen Daily
0.0
Anderson has neutered the original films outrageously transgressive macadam mayhem and completely stripped the story of its pointedly political social ..
1.3
While it might be filling, no one with any taste could possibly call it good.
San Francisco Chronicle
3.0
Its nothing more than an enjoyable, ridiculously macho B movie romp, but its Andersons best movie since the underrated Event Horizon.
3.5
This isnt a particularly smart movie, but its a fun movie, and one that delivers on the car killing mayhem its supposed to.
Cinema Blend
1.5
And most important, until science can shrink you down to Xbox size, its probably the closest youll come to being inside a videogame.
Ny Daily News
3.0
And indeed, Death Race is every single thing critics have accused it of being.But for those of us capable of discerning exactly what a film is offerin ..
Screen Rant
2.5
But it isnt.Death Race is a cinematic dreadnought: imposing on the surface, hollow at its core.
Philly
1.0
This time however, theres shades of sentiment too, since hes a dad, desperately longing to be re united with his little daughter; a decent man who is ..
2.2
Its a bad film, with trashy dialogue, terrible acting and an awful story.
Sover
3.1
This is The Fast and the Furious or Speed Racer on steroids, although it is more about violence and gore than cars.
ReelViews
2.5
The cars are all the same color and some of the racers look alike, and its difficult to tell them apart.
Combust Ible Celluloid
3.1
...sets itself apart from its campy predecessor right from the get go.
Reel Film Reviews
2.0
A testament to the incompetence of Paul W.S. Anderson, who has never made a good movie and apparently isnt about to start now.
Eric Ds Nider
2.0
Mostly, though, its just high speed, mega firepower action, sledgehammered across the screen with enough turbo charged adrenaline to satisfy the most ..
News Review
1.0
Fast cars, machine guns, explosions, babes in hotpants its everything a 12 year old boy could want in a movie.
Independent
3.0
Basically, its a videogame masquerading as a movie, but the action scenes are so loud and messily edited that theyre tedious rather than tense.
Shadows On The Wall
3.0
In addition, the script strips out all the elements that made the original so much fun.Death Race is watchable enough for a Friday night action movie, ..
View London
2.0
The films appeal is apparent from its title and premise: Macho men try to kill one another while piloting tricked out muscle cars in a deadly racing c ..
Film Journal International ..
1.9
And frankly, they should have spent that time on the dialogue and the performances, because both are laughably awful.
Deseret News (Salt Lake Ci ..
3.1
Seriously.Thanks to its character interplay, the movie doesnt drag despite taking a good 40 minutes to really rev its engines.
Boston
3.0
Any sense of cheeky, tasteless fun has vanished.If this is satire, its played out with such a straight face and in such drabness that it makes the ube ..
Mountain X
1.5
Unsurprisingly, this is more of the same nonsense: the only thing deadly about it is how dull it is.
3.1
But Anderson deserves props for changing the story from its original nihilist approach to modern times into a personal quest by a man to win justice a ..
Toronto Star
2.0
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Emanuellevy
2.0
The old Roger Corman exploitation romp undergoes a go faster upgrade in this bone headed yarn about convicts forced to race for their lives in a World ..
Guardian
2.0
Ant Man and the Wasp Like its predecessor Ant Man (2015), Ant Man and the Wasp benefits substantially from its relatively low stakes.
Q Network
0.0
The remake illustrates only how low modern action movies can stoop. Necks are broken, guts eviscerated. Fans of impaling and decapitation will not be ..
Daily Mail
2.0
Its 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 ..
1.3
Haphazardly shot and edited, with each cut lasting no more than a split second at a time, the film isnt even good for some cheap thrills.
The Movie Boy
2.0
The saving graces of the film are twofold: its racing sequences and its supporting cast.
Bullz-Eye
2.0
Director Paul W.S. Anderson really isnt known for Oscar contenders, but the guy understands over the top gratuitous violence better than most.
Hollywood
2.0
Its more of a video game than a movie, but its budget is on the screen and it delivers what its ad campaign promises.
Seattle Pi
2.5
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Tony Medley
3.5
Exactly what you might expect, a mindless action flick that allows you to cheer as people get slaughtered while racing around in armored cars ... anyo ..
3.8
And unlike so many other recent violent action thrillers (THE CONDEMNED, UNTRACEABLE), it honestly delivers the goods without all the preachy moralizi ..
Movies Tv Guide
3.0
The year is 2012 and, in a mish mashing of Rollerball and The Running Man, TV audiences crave death and destruction to keep them happy in a world in w ..
The Age
2.5
In Death Race, hes appropriately stone faced and serious, with a touch of camaraderie and even a little humor, creating an antihero thats easy to root ..
4.0
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La Weekly
4.0
None of it will do you any good, but boy does it feel good going down.
Mirror
4.0
If you like testosterone with your octane, this is your adrenalin fix.
Varia Gate
2.0
Theres some fine action, but the film never gets within spitting distance of breaking any taboos or taste barriers, which, for a schlock spectacle, is ..
Abc
4.5
Like being ordered to have long hair and smile on stage, but wondering how to smile with a trombone in your mouth.Or repeatedly told youre not good en ..
News Blaze
3.0
But Jason Statham can talk the torque as former racing driver Jensen Ames.
The Sun
2.0
It was an innovative and enormously entertaining exploitation picture, blessed with a brain to compliment the body count.
Brian Or Ndorf
4.4
But Race is the irrationally entertaining trash The Condemned failed to be.
The Filmy Ap
1.3
But hes abandoned in a film that doesnt have the brains for satire or the sense of humor to be campy fun.
Big Picture Big Sound
0.6
Death Race is like Shawshank Redemption meets Days of Thunder meets a demented 11 year old boys fantasy dreamed up while sitting in his therapists off ..
Waffle Movies
3.8
Ian McShane as the mentoring Coach lends a level head and an entertainingly evil sense of humor regarding the entire spectacle.
Movie Crypt
2.0
Sometimes films succeed in being pure entertainment and dont attempt to have underlying meaning or instigate inspirational change.
Hollywood Chicago
2.0
Its a bad film, with trashy dialogue, terrible acting and an awful story.
Dennis Schwartz Reviews
3.0
Working from an irresistible premise the race is Andersons to lose, but he crosses the finish line with a brutal, fuel injected thriller that may have ..
Sky
1.0
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Entertainment Times Online ..
2.5
Simply put, there is nothing at all socially redeemable about either film.
No La
2.0
But even spotting the plot holes is quite diverting in this brainless bloodfest.
Metro
3.8
Death Race is exactly what its creators wanted it to be and exactly what fans of quick, dirty thrills expect.
Scifi Movie Page
2.0
To a seasoned moviegoer who saw the original film, this version offers nothing new but updated armored cars.
Review Express
2.0
This might be good for profit margins, however rarely are the results so positive.
Future Movies
3.0
Its no Transporter but its brutal.It must be some kind of movie magic.
Can Mag
2.5
But it doesnt take long for the realization to set in that, yes, this is pretty much all there is.
Tulsa World
2.0
Of all the Z movies in the Roger Corman catalog, they had to remake Death Race 2000.
Orlando Sentinel
3.0
Satire and spectacle are balanced perfectly in this cynical and sexy thrill ride.
Film Critic 1963 Typepad
3.0
While Andersons speedy send up would definitely have benefited from more intentional humor and less angst and schmaltz, the director can be given kudo ..
Horror
3.1
Allen proves she can play any role anywhere, elevating the film to a level it doesnt really deserve.
News Ok
2.5
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Rossiter Drake
2.5
The action of the film is fast, brutal, and unforgiving and is easily the highlight of the film.
Movie Hole
0.5
Death Race was so relentlessly sadistic, so grim, so basically without any redeeming human value that even a race fan like me ended up being turned of ..
Bold Life (Hendersonville, ..
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