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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Ron G

@RT48342791 May 20

I don't get the high rating. THe characters are one dimensional, the script and acting is ridiculously bad. After a few minutes, yeah, I get it. But then it just keeps going with ore of the stupid same.

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Precious E

@RT11040780 May 19

After watching Death Race 2000, this is one of the classic movies of the 60's and 70's. The movie was filmed on a somewhat low budget, and you can see that in the designs and special effects; overall seemed like a good movie.

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Jaden G

@RT57257977 May 18

This film did have things in it that definitely weren't positive or happy to think about, which is people being ran over so that the people racing could get points. That being said it did keep me entertained and the main character Frankenstein trying to target the corrupt President was very entertaining. A sick game was made into something entertaining which I was able to appreciate while watching.

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Brandon M

@RT14839179 May 16

It was a fun movie to watch the humor, silly outfits they had, and made feel like it was rip out of comic which was cool to see. Overall, this an amazing movie to watch

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Jack P

@RT76624209 May 16

This movie was pretty good The humor in it was not really for me but I can see why people would honestly like it This movie was a bit of like a 50/50

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Leslie A

@Les233 May 13

I was curious to see what the movie was about, but to be honest, I am just disappointed. I did find it shocking that in order to gain more points, they had to run over pedestrians, but still, the plot was not for me, and I wouldn't recommend 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