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Govvy

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A fairly enjoyable movie, lots of carnage, blood and gore to mix. Storyline was very fiction, like that would happen so early in real-terms. The best bit is Ian McShane at the end being trigger happy. Could do with a sequel to explain more.

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Posted aug 23, 2009 5:30 am pt

mizasterj

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A real wild one. Basicaly a film adaptation of the video game series Twisted Metal except not really. This movie has big heavy balls. Its Gruesome and maliscious. If you like the concept of Demolition Derby x10 and on steriods youll love this. Its...
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A real wild one. Basicaly a film adaptation of the video game series Twisted Metal except not really. This movie has big heavy balls. Its Gruesome and maliscious. If you like the concept of Demolition Derby x10 and on steriods youll love this. Its pretty freakin brutal, and theres no BS just straight up action and in your face drama. Its one of those movies that you need to watch if your feeling alot of pent up aggression, like from being stuck in traffic all day.

Or have you ever got a certain satisfaction from sitting there and watching those crash test dummy commercials, and thinking there must be a sick part of you that enjoys destruction and chaos? Then this is for you, kid.

I cant really say theres ever been a movie quite like it, so theres hardly anything to compare it to, except that its a remake of Death Race 2000 ( the 1975 film)

Jason Statham is cementing his place as the quintesential action star of the new millenium and this role excentuates that.

I cant say this movie is all guts and no glory, it actualy comes out ontop.

This movie experience is like a red hot crash and burn fearless ride in a 4 wheeled death Machine with no breaks headed straight off a cliff and into mine field.
Thrilling to say the least.

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Posted may 17, 2009 5:58 am pt

syburny

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This movie in my opinion was the best action movie of the year. What is better than 'Fast Cars, Big Guns & Hot Girls' Well all three put into one... The acting was not the best, but the action takes your mind off of that. Definatley one for...
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This movie in my opinion was the best action movie of the year. What is better than 'Fast Cars, Big Guns & Hot Girls' Well all three put into one... The acting was not the best, but the action takes your mind off of that. Definatley one for the guys.

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Posted oct 6, 2008 4:38 am pt

westcoastwillam

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I like this movie pure! action awsome race scenes and if you liked the previews to the film it dosent go to far from the previews thats for sure that can be A good or bad thing,the acting was typical Statham I kinda like em and I thought the...
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I like this movie pure! action awsome race scenes and if you liked the previews to the film it dosent go to far from the previews thats for sure that can be A good or bad thing,the acting was typical Statham I kinda like em and I thought the movie lacked very litte the only I could complain about was you could almost tell what was gonna happen and it lacked some story but it's worth A watch for an action fan

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Posted sep 16, 2008 1:29 pm pt

punisherwarzone

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fast pace action with some humor and cursing mixed you got a five star movie this was truly worth seeing i would recomend this to any one

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Posted sep 9, 2008 4:03 pm pt

sjrlost

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This movie was pretty good in my opinion. I never saw the first one. But knew how the movie was going to play out but I did'nt care. All the racing was really good and entertainning. If you want good action flic to see I say go to this one.

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Posted sep 1, 2008 12:51 am pt

• [+] The New York Times
  
  80
  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.

  by Nathan Lee | Read Full Review »
• [+] New York Post
  
  75
  Statham is an essential tough guy, what the Brits call "well'ard," as self-assured as Lee Marvin.

  by Kyle Smith | Read Full Review »
• [+] TV Guide
  
  75
  It honestly delivers the goods without all the preachy moralizing about violent entertainment and cultural ruin.

  by Ken Fox | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Tribune
  
  75
  Nothing in director Paul W.S. Anderson's schlock drawer--prepares you for the peppy, good-time nastiness that is Death Race.

  by Michael Phillips | Read Full Review »
• [+] Salon.com
  
  70
  Statham moves with such easy grace that you don't have to work hard to believe him. And if he can stand up to Joan Allen, melting her predatory stare with his own molten gaze, then it's clear he's not just the prettiest guy on the prison block, but also the toughest.

  by Stephanie Zacharek | Read Full Review »
• [+] Time
  
  70
  Though the picture doesn't deserve to appear on any critic's 10-best list, it observes the minimum standards of modern action films, which is to say it looks smarter, talks sassier and moves faster than almost anything else on the market.

  by Richard Corliss | Read Full Review »
• [+] Entertainment Weekly
  
  67
  Soft sexual and racial jabs replace the more daring political commentary of the original, a crude classic from the Roger Corman factory.

  by Lisa Schwarzbaum | Read Full Review »
• [+] Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  
  67
  This new version has absolutely none of the distinctive tongue-in-cheek black humor that was the keynote of its model and the trademark of its original director, Paul Bartel.

  by William Arnold | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  
  63
  Death Race is our unshaven Brit hero's inevitable comeuppance: The Prison Job.

  by Stephen Cole | Read Full Review »
• [+] ReelViews
  
  63
  This 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.

  by James Berardinelli | Read Full Review »
• [+] Boston Globe
  
  63
  Smartly, Anderson makes some eclectic casting choices that keep the story from feeling as though it's populated by video-game characters.

  by Tom Russo | Read Full Review »
• [+] Empire
  
  60
  It's nothing more than an enjoyable, ridiculously macho B-movie romp, but it's derson' best movie since the underrated Event Horizon. Perhaps, at long last, he' starting to find his - yep - top gear.

  by Chris Hewitt | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Onion (A.V. Club)
  
  58
  It's the perfect end-of-summer film, and a sign that summer needs to end soon.

  by Keith Phipps | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Hollywood Reporter
  
  40
  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.

  by Stephen Farber | Read Full Review »
• [+] Charlotte Observer
  
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  OK, so no plot, really.

  by Lawrence Toppman | Read Full Review »