Death Race

Pros: Entertaining action movie. Statham looks good with his shirt off.
Cons: Not much character development. Plot could have been stronger. Editing at times.

I do like action movies in general, and I see a decent amount of them. Sometimes I still enjoy them even when the plots and characters aren't that strong. I was interested in Death Race when I first saw a trailer and I recently had the ...

Pros: Ideal for adrenaline junkies.
Cons: No Oscar nods, extremely violent, and it's been done before.

Universal Pictures in association with Relativity Media present the movie Death Race (2008).  Paul W.S. Anderson takes the helm revving up the classic Death Race 2000 (1975).  The story unfolds in the year 2012 with the United States ...

Pros: Exciting car mayhem sequences, plot-twisting story, very entertaining. Jason Statham.
Cons: None!

I know, "Death Race--one of the best action films in a decade" is a strong statement, but it is certainly true! Death Race is just an awesome movie and it is one of my favorites of all time. When you have seen Death Race, you just feel wowed by the whole ...

Pros: Mindless entertainment, utterly indefensible trash
Cons: Mindless, indefensible, trashy

Set in the near-future wherein an economic collapse sees the US Penal system run by private enterprise, including the dreaded Terminal Island (hey, where have I heard that name before...) run by sadistic warden Joan Allen. She is the brainchild ...

Pros: Moments of mildly entertaining violence
Cons: Plot, Character development, Acting, Pretty much everything

The contradiction of being a movie reviewer when taking in a movie like "Death Race" is that we know from the start what kind of movie this is. This is an obvious, violent, action-adventure film whose sole purpose is to entertain. In other words, it's a ...

Pros: Watchable, entertaining, funny
Cons: not as good as some previous films based on the concept.

2008’s Death Race is  one of the typical campy films that I would have never paid money to sit in theaters to see – like “Hitman”, “Towelhead” , “Eagle Eye”, etc.  But, thanks to the beauty of ...

Pros: Excellent special effects and location shots.
Cons: Not so much for plot and characterizations.

DEATH RACE (2008) is a remake - with twists - of the Roger Corman non-classic DEATH RACE 2000 (1975) but in a third of a century there have been changes made.Now if you've managed to dodge the original flick, here's a summation:  To the ...