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Let Death Race serve as a warning, or maybe an inspiration, to any TV producer who says she'd kill for high ratings: Why not stage a pay-per-view car race in which prisoners compete to stay alive on the course?

-Lisa SchwarzbaumFull Review

The combination of good actors and terrible dialogue might have allowed the film a chance at minor cult status, if it weren't for the frustratingly inept action sequences.

-Peter HartlaubFull Review

Death Race is cartoonishly brutal and pleasantly disreputable.

-Stephanie ZacharekFull Review

Statham's films never promise to be something they're not or offer something they don't provide. Death Race is not an exception.

-James BerardinelliFull Review

Of all the Z-movies in the Roger Corman catalog, they had to remake Death Race 2000.

-Roger MooreFull Review

If you're a fan of Gone in 60 Seconds or The Fast and the Furious, you won't look at your watch while the movie is going on, and you won't feel conned out of your money when it's over.

-Stephen WhittyFull Review

Like first love -- or maybe just a crowbar to the Adam's apple -- Death Race works fast and hits hard. A prison flick and a car chase movie at the same time? I am so there.

-Kyle Smith

Well, you've got to say this for Death Race: It knows what it is and doesn't apologize for it. What it is, incidentally, is junk.

-Elizabeth WeitzmanFull Review

Car-crash porn for the modern audience.

-Amy BiancolliFull Review

It has the tough guy lead, dozens of mad car crack-ups, tons of gratuitous violence, sweaty B-movie appeal, and even a couple of A-talent actors, but in the end Death Race runs around in circles.

-Tom LongFull Review

The movie gets its own Mad Max mojo working, but there's no real attempt at social commentary here -- these churls just want to have fun.

-Tom MaurstadFull Review

Thanks to its character interplay, the movie doesn't drag despite taking a good 40 minutes to really rev its engines. And the racing that ensues is as loud, fast, hyper-edited, and pulverizingly destructive as the gladiatorially minded would hope.

-Tom RussoFull Review

This is still summer trash and no brain cells were injured or even fatigued in the making of it.

-Peter HowellFull Review

Actors try to add a touch of class to a picture that's utterly crass.

-Stephen Farber

Yes, Death Race is as brutal as a punch in the face. If you have a hankering for B-movie grime and gore, it can also be a lot of fun.

-Stephen ColeFull Review

As hard as metal and just as dumb, Paul W.S. Anderson's Death Race couldn't be further from producer Roger Corman and director Paul Bartel's goofy, bloody 1975 original, Death Race 2000.

-Robert KoehlerFull Review

It is an assault on all the senses, including common. Walking out, I had the impression I had just seen the video game and was still waiting for the movie.

-Roger EbertFull Review

No fancy talk here, just solid, monosyllabic obscenities; no flights of digital fancy, just souped-up monster cars flipping end over end in a napalm blaze and crashing in a crunch of flaming metal ouch.

-Nathan Lee

If a movie could drag its knuckles on the ground, Death Race would leave eight little tracks in the sand.

-Philip KennicottFull Review

Death Race may be a loud, lowbrow piece of pulp, but it's also crackling entertainment -- the very definition of a cheap thrill.

-Rafer GuzmanFull Review

Death Race is a cinematic dreadnought: imposing on the surface, hollow at its core.

-David HiltbrandFull Review

It's one of those vicious larks that just plain hit the spot. It hits the spot, throws 'er into reverse and hits the spot again, before machine-gunning it and ramming it head-on for the fun of it.

-Michael PhillipsFull Review

Anderson's take is ultraviolent, ridiculously stupid and kind of a rush. If your brain has an 'off' switch, you're well-advised to use it. And the carnage is relentless.

-Bill GoodykoontzFull Review


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