REVIEW: Death Race

The Synopsis

IMDb: 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.

Other Reviews

Main Critics:

Roger Ebert: ½ Stars
Richard Roeper: Not Available Yet
Michael Phillips: 3 Stars (Good)
Lisa Schwarzbaum (EW): B-
A. O. Scott: Not Available Yet

Other Sites:

At The Movies: Not Available Yet
Thumbs Summary: Not Available Yet
Fandango: 26 Oh No, 12 No, 50 So-So, 50 Go, 70 Must Go
Rotten Tomatoes: T-Meter: 39% (Rotten), Top Critics: 43% (Rotten), RT Community: 69% (Fresh)
Metacritic: Critics: 41 out of 100, Users: 5.4 out of 10
Yahoo Movies: Critics: C Users: B+

My Review

Source Material: Death Race is loosely based on Death Race 2000, a movie that is the love child of the cartoon “Wacky Races” and the video game “Spy Hunter”. As a remake Death Race has become more like video game “Twisted Metal”

Action: Amazing: This movie is very action packed. It will keep your attention for the whole hour and half. There is a lot of explosions and carnage. Death Race is very much a guy movie.

Acting and Dialogue: Common: It has great one-liners but besides that the dialogue is very poor, but what do you expect from a testosterone driven film: hot chicks, fast cars, guns a blazing, explosions.

Direction: Common: Paul W.S. Anderson is known for his video game adaptation. Even thought this isn’t based off a video game it comes off like a video game. It kind of reminded me of the video game “Twisted Metal.”

Sound: Brilliant: The sound not only helps the effects in the film but holds it own as a separate element.

Special and Visual FX: Brilliant: The effects are what brings the action and sound together. There is a lot of realism that when into the making of Death Race

Overall: C+