Death Race 2000

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Death Race 2000

R

1975

1h 18m

Action

Comedy

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In the year 2000, America is a totalitarian regime on the brink of collapse. The most popular sport in this dystopia is the Transcontinental Road Race, where teams earn points for logging the fastest time and for mowing over the most innocent pedestrians in the process. This year's competitors include Frankenstein (David Carradine), who is rumored to be more machine than man, and the tough-as-nails "Machine Gun" Joe Viterbo (Sylvester Stallone). Some have a plan to stop the race.

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Critics Consensus

Death Race 2000 is an unabashedly cheap, deliriously fun B-movie that revels in its first-rate racing sequences, vividly grotesque characters, and comic-strip absurdity.

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David Robinson

The Times (UK)

Dec 22

Death Race 2000 was frankly aimed as a rip-off of Rollerball, but it has a number of advantages over the original. It never takes its pretensions or its future projections too seriously.

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Pauline Kael

The New Yorker

Dec 22

The picture zips along, and there's a flip craziness about it -- it's an ideal drive-in movie.

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Sight & Sound Staff

Sight & Sound

Dec 22

A fast-moving offshoot of Rollerball, much more entertaining than its predecessor, mainly motored by a gallery of grotesque characters and a high-spirited enjoyment of its own absurdities, rendered in a black comedy comic-strip form.

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Charles Brock

Florida Times-Union

Feb 4

The action is fast and furious, even if the premise is a little spooky.

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Matt Brunson

Film Frenzy

Dec 30

3/4

Impossible to defend but easy to enjoy.

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Dilys Powell

Sunday Times (UK)

Dec 22

Death Race 2000 isn't boring... but the style has a mixture of irony and flatness which as it were detaches the spectator.

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valeria S

@valeriasalgado 13h

I liked how this movie was because it was showing message on how the world is while also putting a spin on it and making it funny

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Dominick S

@Dominick118 1d

Death Race 2000 is a wild, chaotic, and unapologetically campy vision of a dystopian future where violence is entertainment and society’s morals are completely inverted. Set in the year 2000, the film imagines a totalitarian United States where a cross-country car race doubles as a televised spectacle in which competitors earn points for running over pedestrians. The concept itself is shocking, but the film treats it with a gleeful sense of dark satire.

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Adrian A.

@Adrian_AU 3d

I found death race 2000 kind of interesting. It was not bad but also not the best. I liked the plot of Frankenstein wanting to kill the president because that explained why he didn’t kill Annie. I also found interesting how people were willing to die and sacrifice people for the race.

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Jazmine G

@jazminegonza Feb 7

I absolutely loved the film! I thought the relationship between Frankenstein and Annie was beautiful as they were both secretly, but separately plotting to take down the President and his government while simultaneously falling in love with each. I also liked the casting of Sylvester Stallone as Joe because I thought he did a great job embodying the role of a jealous, angry, and power-hungry villain.

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Geraldine V

@Gerald3n111 Dec 18

This film had a full of action, humor, and really wild. but it was not my type of film to watch.

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Wendi F

@wendydj Dec 18

i liked this fil it was the perfect blend of mess. It might seem unorganized but i think thats the best way the plot was executed. would not reccomend but im sure if someone stubmbled upon it on accident they wouldnt hate it

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Synopsis

In the year 2000, America is a totalitarian regime on the brink of collapse. The most popular sport in this dystopia is the Transcontinental Road Race, where teams earn points for logging the fastest time and for mowing over the most innocent pedestrians in the process. This year's competitors include Frankenstein (David Carradine), who is rumored to be more machine than man, and the tough-as-nails "Machine Gun" Joe Viterbo (Sylvester Stallone). Some have a plan to stop the race.

Director: Paul Bartel
Producer: Roger Corman
Screenwriter: Robert Thom, Charles B. Griffith
Production Co: New World Pictures
Rating: R
Genre: Action, Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Apr 30, 1975, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): May 23, 2017
Runtime: 1h 18m

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