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- 1978
- R
- New World Pictures
- 1 h 22 m
- 1978
- R
- New World Pictures
- 1 h 22 m
Summary Futuristic Science Fiction about a sport to the death, using "destructocycles".
Directed By: Allan Arkush, Nicholas Niciphor, Roger Corman
- 1978
- R
- New World Pictures
- 1 h 22 m
- 1978
- R
- New World Pictures
- 1 h 22 m
Deathsport
33
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Summary Futuristic Science Fiction about a sport to the death, using "destructocycles".
Directed By: Allan Arkush, Nicholas Niciphor, Roger Corman
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 5 Critic Reviews
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0% Positive
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80% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
20% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 5 Critic Reviews
33
0% Positive
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
80% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
20% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
If it never quite rises to the kind of parable one half expects from the Corman factory, it's still OK.
The film starts in midbattle and scarcely slows up--a good thing, too, because the few slack spots are heavy-handed mystical interludes without a trace of humor.
David Carradine is the quiet good guy and the best thing that can be said about his acting and his part is that he doesn’t say much. Claudia Jennings is his partner good guy, the one who gets to amuse the bad guy in the dark room. The best thing that can be said about her performance is that she gets to take off her clothes, twice.
Perhaps a slightly more engaging, focused narrative would have saved the film. As it stands, we're treated to 82 minutes of confused storytelling that spends the entire first half torturing our two principal leads in the most bizarre ways imaginable. Perhaps Corman fans should skip the first half of the film and simply watch the actual "Deathsport" sequences instead. The film will likely play much better as a 40-minute short.
This embarrassingly stupid, cheap, and hokey film owes huge and obvious debts to Seventies gems Death Race 2000 and Rollerball, but with none of the brains or budget of those films.
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