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Death Race (2008) -- This is the first theatrical trailer for Death Race, directed by Paul W. S. Anderson.
Death Race (2008) -- Clip: Jensen goes head to head with Pachenko
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Death Race (2008) -- Interview: Joan Allen "On playing the villain"
Death Race (2008) -- The multi-talented Tyrese Gibson of "Fast And Furious" fame returns to the big screen with a starring roll in the action-thriller "Death Race." Bianca Solorzano reports.

Overview

User Rating:
6.7/10   33,898 votes
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Director:
Paul W.S. Anderson
Writers (WGA):
Paul W.S. Anderson (screenplay)
Paul W.S. Anderson (screen story)
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Contact:
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Release Date:
22 August 2008 (USA) more
Genre:
Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller more
Tagline:
Get ready for a killer ride. more
Plot:
Ex-con Jensen Ames is forced by the warden of a notorious prison to compete in our post-industrial world's most popular sport: a car race in which inmates must brutalize and kill one another on the road to victory. full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
2 nominations more
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(372 articles)
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Not Bad At All! more (169 total)

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Death Race 3000 (USA) (working title)
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MPAA:
Rated R for strong violence and language.
Runtime:
USA:111 min (unrated version) | 98 min (theatrical version)
Country:
USA | Germany | UK
Language:
English
Colour:
Colour
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
SDDS | DTS | Dolby Digital

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
David Carradine, who starred in the original Death Race 2000 (1975) plays the voice of Frankenstein in the opening scene. more
Goofs:
Factual errors: The front firing weapons fitted to Pachenko's car are WW-II vintage German MG-34 7.92mm machine guns and Russian PPSh-41 7.62mm submachine guns; the former have Gurttrommel 34 drum magazines each containing a 50 round belt, while the latter can take either a 71 round drum magazine, or a 36 round curved stack magazine. That makes them unsuitable for prolonged firing, as they lack sufficient ammunition and their location also makes them impossible to reload during a race. Plus, they wouldn't even make a dent on the "tombstone". Also, the flexible navigator operated machine gun on Carson's car is manually charged and fired, so the activation/kill switch mechanism for it would have to block either the charger or the trigger, but no such thing is visible. more
Quotes:
[first lines]
Case: [while being shot at during Death Race] Damn it!
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Movie Connections:
References Grand Prix (1966) more
Soundtrack:
5th Set more

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65 out of 90 people found the following comment useful.
Not Bad At All!, 15 September 2008
8/10
Author: Mihnea the Pitbull from Romania

Definitely better than the ridiculous "Righteous Kill", that we had the doubtful honor to view today also, at the same press screening, here in Bucharest, Romania.

"Death Race" is a honest to God action movie, without any bigger-than-life pretensions. The script follows correctly an old tested and tried recipe, everything is at its place, and although you can easily plot out the whole course since the beginning, somewhat even this sounds good - you simply have the guilty pleasure of savoring again a story that you know from dozens of other movies.

The influences from the racing video games are explicit, and well mastered - me, I fully felt as while playing "Death Rally". Even certain aerial shots are obvious quotes from the computer game imagery. The narrative is nervous and thrilling, the effects professional, the violence degree precisely balanced. Maybe the main virtue of the movie is the cinematography, with admirable chromatic and plastic values. All in all, what it promises, it delivers: a cheap show, well done.

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