3/4  Great Remake!
For a remake I thought this film was very well done. Highly entertaining. I really enjoyed Death Race when I thought I wouldn't. Especially with who was working on it. Glad to see Roger Corman produced though. I would suggest this film to ... (read full)

3/4  Death Race
This movie was very unexpecting. I thought i was going to be a womp womp, but it was pretty good. If you are in to racing and death..lol you will really enjoy this action-packed movie. Tyrese Gibson was good and funny as usual. I really li... (read full)

3/4  Crash Crash, Bang Bang...
Deathrace is a car crash of a movie – you know you shouldn’t watch but you can’t bring yourself to turn away.

Borrowing little but a producer from the 1975 original, it tells the story of a wrongly imprisoned man who is given one chanc... (read full)

3/4  chick flick (not)
I whined that my boyfriend was dragging me to this movie, but about ten min into it I was won over. Now I'm not gonna say every girlfriend will like it, but if she doesn't you might wanna examine your relationship (jk).
There are explosio... (read full)

3.5/4  Death Race 2000
Based on the 70's movie Death Race 2000, this is so much more. It has death, races, and it's co-produced by Roger Corman but the similarities stop there. Whereas DR 2000 was pure camp, this is an over the top extreme action flick. Schlock ... (read full)

2/4  Death Race Quick Review
If you're in the mood for action, this will do. It's nothing like Death Race 2000, other than they both have racing cars and guy named Frankenstein. Beyond the action, there's not much more, but you could do worse to pass the time.

2/4  Death Race Quick Review
Fast paced movie all around. Has stlye and some cool moments. Feels too much like a quick video game though. Not too memorable either. Just good enough to pass the time if you're bored.

3/4  Death Race Quick Review
great movie!! I was going in with pretty high hopes and it still exeeded my expectations. It wasn't predictable and it was very entertaining. Jason Statham was great along with Tyrese Gibson.

3/5 A much better than I expected.
  by J. McGinn (Portland, OR)
I didn't go see this movie in the the theater because I thought this movie wouldn't be worth my money. I was right, however it's worth renting. It was much better than I expected.

The story is the worst part of the movie. First some how our economy virtually collapses over night, and the prison system isn't making any money so they enter reality television with prisoners fighting and racing for our entertainment. Yes you could see that happening a ways done the round by still far fetched.

The acting and actors on the other hand were really good. The all looked like they wanted to make this movie and were having fun. Jason Statham is always great, and doesn't get the credit he deserves for his acting. Tyrese Gibson, Joan Allen, Natalie Martinez and the rest of the actors all did great jobs.

The action was really good and exciting. The races were really well done which added to the movie. Finally I really liked the ending of the move.

Overall a above average movie worth renting.

5/5 Testosterone Ride
  by xaeinstein (Massachusetts & Florida, USA)
This is the review of Death Race the unrated version (111 minutes)in blu-ray, hi def (the disk contains 2 versions).

WHAT A RIDE! Heard about "chic flicks", well this is definitely a guy film. The experience was riveting and left us speechless. We were transfixed by the non-stop marathon of cars, fights, violence and babes in hi-definition and incredible HD surround sound. Definately a testosterone ride/boost with no redeming qualities whatsoever: none, zippo.

This movie is nearly two hours of pure escapist joy.
Besides extreme non-stop action, it includes an occasional cheesy slow-mo hair-waving in-the-air shots of "babes" getting in and out of cars. Campy yes. Boring no.
Fun yes.
Highly recommended for what it is: fights, extreme racing, lots of gritty action shots.
The end is kind of sappy but what else would you expect?
If you don't take yourself or your movies too seriously you will love this flick.

Wanna laugh? -I actually bought this Blu-ray disc to test out my home theater sound -- only action Blu-ray I could find that day that had dts 6.1 sound. After using the opening scene a few times to demo the sound (the spatial quality of the sound is truly outstanding going around the room in a dramatic fashion), I put it aside. Then one day after a long day outdoors, my brother, a friend and I decided to watch it while our respective spouses and daughters were busy elsewhere. The result is listed above.

Ideal for a projector setup with very large screen. If you have a choice play it back using dts discrete multi-channel.

4/5 Extreme Road-Rage
  by Jim Gateley (Sunnyvale, CA)
4 of 5 stars for the extreme road-rage movie: Death Race. Set in the future where prisons are run by corporations "for profit" they stream on internet a new sport called The Death Race. Prisoners are forced to drive race cars complete with armor and weapons where the goal is to not just win, but, be the only survivor of the race. Our hero (played by Jason Statham, one of my favorites) gets rail-roaded into prison and forced into driving.

This is a sci-fi movie which is richly and expansively photographed. Yeah, special effects, but, mostly great sets and live action. Really a nice blend of reality and effects. Great action, lots of bullets, lots of smash-ups. This is a recommended movie.

4/5 A guilty pleasure
  by Edmonson (Canada)
Paul W.S. Anderson directs "Death Race", which is a remake of the Roger Corman film, "Death Race 2000". This movie, however, is set in the year 2012 when American society is supposedly collapsing and regressing into a barbaric age where prisoners are used for a spectacle car race in a revival of the gladiators and chariot races from the days of the Roman coliseum combats around 80A.D.

Jason Statham has been set up for the murder of his wife and ends up in a penitentiary full of hardened criminals where he is procured as the replacement for a recently killed racer, named Frankenstein, whose face was so badly scarred that he wore a metal mask and hence his name. Paul W.S. Anderson has directed other sci-fi movies, notably the Resident Evil movies, Event Horizon, and Alien vs. Predator. Here again he uses his considerable skills as a director to deliver this tongue in cheek thrill ride. Joan Allen also stars as the evil jail house warden whose only interest is in the ratings of the death race TV show and the money garnered from the death races. What's not to like in this entertaining spectacle which is spiced up with the sexy Natalie Martinez as Statham's assistant navigator, and the gloriously metallic music supplied by Paul Haslinger?

The blu-ray comes with the theatrical and unrated versions of the movie. I think I actually prefer the theatrical version a bit better just because the ended is concluded in the rapid fire manner of the rest of the film, whereas I find the unrated version drags the ending out a bit in comparison. All in all this is one riotous film.

2/5 Sticky and skips
  by Kalina
I was very happy with the shipping and handling of this DVD, it was fast and packaged well. However, the DVD must have had something spilled on it because when I took it out of the cover there was a liquid stain and it is really sticky! It skips which I am assuming was caused by the sticky substance. It just makes me wonder if these products are quality checked before they are bought and then sold?