Death Race 2000

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Summary: Pure cheese
Review: Some of the scenes look like they were filmed using miniature radio controlled cars. Lots of bad acting and hilarious dialogue. If any film fits the definition of "camp" perfectly this is it. In other words, it's great fun to watch!

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Summary: This movie has it all
Review: This is a untypical movie for it time. It was a Sci-Fi low budget that used the best it had. It gives new defination to road rage. This is one of the all time classic Sci-Fi road race movies. If you like Carmageddon the PC game you'll love Death Race 2000.

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Summary: Grade Z.
Review: This movie has not aged well. Set in the near future, a jaded population is entertained by a road race in which points are accumulated by killing pedestrians -- the more helpless, the greater the point value.

The screenplay is atrocious; the acting is terrible (I think the cast was bored); the special effects are amateurish.

Sometimes, a bad movie can be funny to watch. This one's just painful. Pass it by.

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Summary: It does not get any worse than this, but it is a good worse
Review: It does not get any worse than this, but it is a good wors

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Summary: Excellent bad-acting, fast cars and hit'n runs.
Review: I beg you all to watch this film. It never fails with the ladies or to surprise your nerdy friends at how cool you really are. This film has the best of everything you ever wanted to see in an action movie. Mr.Carradine gives a stellar performance as always while Sly Stallone looking a tad tubby still delivers. You can't help but fall in love with the cars and babes...enjoy! Sincerely Ahmet Zappa

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Summary: A Race With Points For Killing People Nuf Said
Review: It's worth a watch just to see that announcer agai

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Summary: Terrible Ariting And No Plot, Its Great!
Review: If you like movies that forgo all sense of plot in exchange of a cheap thrill watch this movie

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Summary: If you like cheap movies you'll love this one
Review: Hilariousy Ba

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Summary: Frankenstein Has Just Been Attacked By The French Air Force!
Review: This Corman classic from the 1970s is a real treasure for lovers of cheesy movies. The plot concerns a transcontinental race in which drivers score by driving fast and killing pedestrians. The principals are David Carradine as "Frankenstein," versus Sylvester Stallone as the pink-tie wearing villain. This movie is so schlock that it must be seen to be believed, and even though it involves ridiculous looking cars running over people, it is cheery in an odd way that only Corman and director Paul Bartel could pull off.

This film was made for about $300,000 and it shows. Everything about it reeks of cheese. The cars especially are absolutely ludicrous, as are the sets, the occasional animation, the script, and the acting. There is even a subplot about American revolutionaries led by Thomasina Paine and Frankenstein becoming the new President, whose first ruling is rather controversial.

Please feel free to detest the annoying television announcer who narrates a largish portion of the film. He is effectively dealt with by Frankenstein in a most satisfactory manner. I would have given the film three stars, but I upgraded my evaluation to four stars exclusively because the script constantly blames the French for all that is wrong in the world (hence the title of my review). I guess sometimes futuristic sci-fi movies do have it right, after all.


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Summary: Kwai Chang Caine vs. Rocky Balboa
Review: Before THE ROAD WARRIOR there was DEATH RACE 2000! A great social satire film about media megalomania, political corruption and the public's thirst for gratuitous violence. David Carridine stars as Frankenstein, a driver in a national cross-country car race in which points are totaled by how many pedestrians one can run-over and kill. He is the fan-fave of a futuristic totalitarian America. The violence, carnage, and stunt work of the car races at times becomes cartoony to the point of being funny and hilarious. Think if the Hanson Brothers from SLAP SHOT got into race cars... that's how funny it is. The vehicles in the film are as much as the stars in this film as their drivers. Each car has a personality and distinctive "killing" style/shape of their own and they look pretty cool too. Overall, a cult classic B-movie from Roger Corman that should be viewed not too seriously, but with a comicbook sensibility and social irreverence. Carradine as Frankenstein, and Stallone as Machine Gun Joe Viterbo (Frankenstein's car racing nemisis) are funny and excellent.