Overwiew :Ex-con Jensen Ames (Statham) is forced by the warden of a notorious prison (Allen) to compete in our post-industrial world's most popular sport: a car race in which inmates must brutalize and kill one another on the road to victory. |
Producers :
Roger Corman, Paula Wagner, Jeremy Bolt, Paul W.S. Anderson
Writers :
Paul W.S. Anderson, David Self, J.F. Lawton
Critic Reviews
Grade
Seattle Post-Intelligencer - William Arnold
: ...anyone looking for an end-of-summer crunchathon has definitely come to the right place.
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B-
San Francisco Chronicle - Peter Hartlau
: ...an ill-advised and severely wussified remake...
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D
ReelViews - James Berardinelli
: ...it's very good at provoking visceral reactions, and that's largely what the picture's audience will be in multiplexes for.
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B-
New York Times - Nathan Lee
: ...a supercharged junkyard apocalypse powered by an unabashed relish for brutal comeuppance...
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B
New York Post - Kyle Smith
: A prison flick and a car chase movie at the same time? I am so there.
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B
Hollywood Reporter - Stephen Farber
: The best you can say about the movie is that it isn't boring. It's fast-paced, but it isn't really well made.
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C
filmcritic.com - Sean O'Connell
: I wouldn't hire Anderson to helm a beer commercial, but then again, I don't work for Universal.
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D
E! Online - Chris Farnsworth
: Sure it's all pretty preposterous, but the difference between this and lesser examples of the genre is execution.
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B
Chicago Tribune - Matt Pais
: Even inful than actually participating in a death race.
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F
Chicago Sun-Times - Roger Ebert
: It is an assault on all the senses, including common.
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The story of "Death Race" is simple but this is a good action movie. The car races and music were amazing and very entertaining to watch. I really enjoyed the movie.
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