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- 1975
- R
- New World Pictures
- 1 h 20 m
- 1975
- R
- New World Pictures
- 1 h 20 m
Summary In a dystopian future, a cross country car race compels contestants to run down innocent pedestrians to earn points that are tallied based on each kill's brutality.
Directed By: Paul Bartel
Written By: Robert Thom, Charles B. Griffith, Ib Melchior
- 1975
- R
- New World Pictures
- 1 h 20 m
- 1975
- R
- New World Pictures
- 1 h 20 m
Death Race 2000
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6.5
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Summary In a dystopian future, a cross country car race compels contestants to run down innocent pedestrians to earn points that are tallied based on each kill's brutality.
Directed By: Paul Bartel
Written By: Robert Thom, Charles B. Griffith, Ib Melchior
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 14 Critic Reviews
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64% Positive
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21% Mixed
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14% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 14 Critic Reviews
58
64% Positive
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
21% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
14% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
It’s all ridiculous and occasionally surreal, but Bartel never loses sight of the unpleasantness; when these cartoons explode, they don’t get to place any more orders with the Acme company. They just die.
Low-budget sci-fi, from an often amusing suspense script by Robert Thom and Charles B. Griffith, directed by Paul Bartel in his ingratiatingly tacky, sophomoric manner. Bartel seems to have an instinctive kinky comic-book style; the picture rips along, and there's a flip craziness about it - it's an ideal drive-in movie.
The All-American imagery, coexisting with occasional shots of swastikas and socially-sanctioned cruelty, give it the feel of a surreal, funny fever dream about national purpose gone horribly awry.
Death Race 2000 isn’t the sharp satire Corman thinks it is, but it’s fun.
Superior drive-in exploitation fare.
In the end, it reveals itself to have nothing to say beyond the superficial about government or rebellion. And in the absence of such a statement, it becomes what it seems to have mocked—a spectacle glorifying the car is an instrument of violence.
I was torn between walking out immediately and staying to witness a spectacle more dismaying than anything on the screen: the way small children were digging gratuitous bloodshed.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 13 User Ratings
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 13 User Ratings
6.5
46% Positive
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
38% Mixed
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
15% Negative
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