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Summary: Very underrated movie
Review: "Death Race 2000" is an incredibly entertaining movie on various levels. You can sit back and just enjoy the over-the-top acting, amazing cars, and bloody violance, or you can actually get into the story a little deeper, of how America is run by Mr. President and how various people (including, as we eventually find out, Frankenstein) try to take him down for the good of the country.The film is filmed beautifully, especially when the cars are on the road. There's a lot of action as the cars run over people for points and battle each other to win the race. The biggest regret I have about this DVD is that it is not in widescreen. This is a shame because, well, if it isn't in widescreen, you are being cheated. And this great film deserves to be in widescreen. (Let the VHS fans have the fullscreen.) Some deleted scenes would have been nice as well, as I have seen photos of action not in the final print, and even in the trailer on the DVD there is a line not in the film ("This is a death race," as said by Frankenstein). Despite no widescreen, still a must-buy.
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Summary: A superb fast paced racing film
Review: .The idea of Frankenstein being some massive hero to all the people is also a great take on sporting heros as the Death Race in the film is as it says on the poster the national sport.The violence is the film is brilliantly done,the comedy is also excellent,even the death's of some of the pedestrians is comical an example being the man with a red cape waving at one of the drivers.Overall a brilliant,fast paced,violent film.Classic.
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Summary: B-movie with an A ratring.
Review: A lot of great actors in this movie, Carradine and Stallone. The acting may be a little cheesy, but that's what makes this movie great. This is for shure one of Roger Cormans best, my favorite would be "Rock N'Roll Highschool, but this is a great car movie. Way ahead of its time by using a race across the nation in attempt to kill people and earn points for it. Good buy.
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Summary: B-movie with an A ratring.
Review: A lot of great actors in this movie, Carradine and Stallone. The acting may be a little cheesy, but that's what makes this movie great. This is for shure one of Roger Cormans best, my favorite would be "Rock N'Roll Highschool, but this is a great car movie. Way ahead of its time by using a race across the nation in attempt to kill people and earn points for it. Good buy.
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Summary: GREAT
Review: A masterpiece by all standards.Would love to see a remake.
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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.
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Summary: Ever like a lousy movie?
Review: Death Race 2000 can be summed up neatly in a single sentence: It is a post-apocalyptic ...B racing movie. I can't deny that I enjoy the movie, but let's face it, it really stinks. The storyline alone is laughable: in the future, a corrupt American president rules the country from abroad, providing "bread and circuses" to the masses in the form of violent entertainment. Our hero, Frankenstein (David Carradine), is an iconic part of it all. He's the #1 driver in a cross-country road race in which killing pedestrians is rewarded with points. Stallone pays Machine Gun Joe Viterbo, Frankenstein's ruthless nemesis who will -- gasp! -- do anything to win! The race is plagued by pro-democracy rebels who want to sabotage the violence with their own violence, and kidnap Frankenstein to coerce the government into democratic reforms. Oh yes, it's one of those bloodthirsty, pro-democracy guerilla groups! But Frankenstein has reasons for wanting to win that go beyond the glory of fame . . . . The reasons don't make much sense, but I won't spoil it by giving them away. Stallone's acting actually steals the show -- he's an above-average actor in a far below-average move. He even makes it look credible when skinny-armed, slow-moving Carradine, who punches like a 12 year old girl, beats him up. ...Actually, the movie's dialogue, sets and acting are very, very amateurish. ... The satire is thin, the humor is virtually non-existent (except for some pretty hard and well-justified whacks at the media), and characters have not the slightest bit of depth or logic. There are a lot of scenes involving gratuitous nudity (exclusively of women) and characters will sleep with their mortal enemies, try to kill them and then (literally) five minutes later embrace them lovingly, etc. I particularly like the scene where a saboteur tries to drive Frankenstein off a cliff and, as soon as he stops her, he gets out of the car (leaving her in control of the car), walks to the edge of a cliff directly in front of the car, and stand there contemplating the universe. Instead of finishing the job and killing him, the saboteur follows him and gives him a hug. That said, the cars themselves are very imaginative and there is good action. Some of the special effects are well above par for a B-grade movie like this one. And, for all the terrible acting, [bad] script and silly plot, there is just enough fun in it to make your typical low-brow action-loving American, such as myself, sit still through 90 minutes of it. On the other hand, my wife, who is not a non-low-brow, non-action-loving American, found it utterly to lack redeeming value.
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Summary: Awful film
Review: Death Race 2000 is a mindless,badly made B-Grade film.It is a cheapie of the worst order.No story,just cheap crappy scenes.
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Summary: Definitly a must for cheese-ball sci-fi fans..
Review: Definitly better than I had anticipated! Both David Carradine and Sly Stallone ham it up as their respective charcters Frankenstein and Machine Gun Joe. The Gore is there and the required T&A for a 70's schlock film. Should not be overlooked!
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Summary: hmm . . .
Review: did the makers of Carmegeddon see this movie? Well, I think having said that anyone who's played the game will know pretty much what to expect. I once heard someone say that this movie was supposed to be some kind of social satire, on Social Darwinism or something? Well, that is very difficult to believe. Sylvester Stallone's non-porn debut (yes, it's true, he used to make porn movies) is an all-out blood n gore fest, complete with ludicrous over-acting, campy gags, naked women and cheesy spatter-type special effects. While not everyone's cup of tea, and it's certainly not Ingmar Bergman, it is very fast-moving and fun (what could you expect from Roger Corman) and probably contains one of the highest cinema body-counts this side of Peter Jackson's Braindead. Rumour has it that a remake is in the works called Death Race 3000. Should be fun.
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