Death Race (Blu-ray)

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Format:  Blu-ray  (2 Discs)
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Blu-ray Details

  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Run Time: 3 hours, 36 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: December 21, 2008
  • Originally Released: 2008
  • Label: Universal Studios

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 207,652
3 stars out of 5 -- Anderson's unapologetically silly yet thoroughly entertaining film sees him going from adapting videogames to making his own.
Total Film
Mar 1, 2009
Rating: 2/5 -- Once out of the starting grid, the film proceeds to edit the action so dementedly that one struggles to work out whose car just exploded, who flipped over and who's driving the one with the missile-launcher on the roof. Full Review
Guardian
Sep 26, 2008
Rating: 1/5 -- This sci-fi fantasy about crazy Mad Max races in a high security prison is 8,000 horsepower of pure auto-erotic carnage. Full Review
Times (UK)
Sep 26, 2008
Rating: 3/5 -- Violent action remake races to a high body count. Full Review
Common Sense Media
Dec 18, 2010
Paul W.S. Anderson's remake is noisy, brutal, bloodthirsty fun....Anderson's version goes its own frenetic way, and it's one of those vicious larks that just plain hit the spot.
Los Angeles Times
Aug 22, 2008
Death Race was so relentlessly sadistic, so grim, so basically without any redeeming human value that even a race fan like me ended up being turned off by the so-called "ultimate in auto carnage." Full Review
Bold Life (Hendersonville, NC)
Aug 25, 2018
Rating: 3/5 -- A must-see for petrolheads and cineastes alike. Full Review
The Age (Australia)
Nov 7, 2008

Product Description:

The Roger Corman-produced cult favorite DEATH RACE 2000 (1975) gets an update in this reworking from action director Paul W.S. Anderson (RESIDENT EVIL). In a role sure to please fans of his work in CRANK (2006) and the TRANSPORTER films, Jason Statham is Frankenstein, the fierce driver portrayed by David Carradine in the original. The script, also by Anderson, largely does away with the original's satirical elements in favor an increased number of breathtaking crashes and stunt driving. In 2012, the American economy has collapsed, and prisons have been taken over by corporations. Overseen by Warden Hennessey (Joan Allen), Terminal Island prison generates immense amounts of revenue with pay-per-view broadcasts of "Death Race," in which inmates participate in an auto race where anything goes. New inmate Jensen Ames (Statham), who has been framed for the death of his wife, is chosen to take over the role of Frankenstein, the contest's recently deceased masked star driver. His chief competitor, Machine Gun Joe (Tyrese Gibson), unaware that a new man is behind the mask of his old rival, will stop at nothing to win. With Case, a sexy navigator from the nearby women's facility, and a trusty pit crew led by wise veteran Coach (Ian McShane), Ames has a good shot at winning. If he does, he's been promised his freedom---but the race holds more obstacles than he can imagine, and ratings are more important to Hennessey than being true to her word.

Loud, gory, and lightning fast, DEATH RACE is geared to the video game generation, right down to the graphics that appear onscreen during the race's TV broadcast. Once again, Statham creates a great hero to root for in a performance that rises above the copious stunts and visual effects. Allen, in uncharacteristic role, is suitably imposing as the steely warden.

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  • UPC: 025195056625
  • Shipping Weight: 0.28/lbs (approx)
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