Death Race (2008)
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- Synopsis
- The Transporter star Jason Statham takes the wheel in director Paul W.S. Anderson's remake of the Roger Corman classic about a hyper-violent cross-country race that breaks all of the traditional rules of the road....
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- Starring
- Jason Statham, Tyrese Gibson, Ian McShane, Joan Allen, Natalie Martinez
- Director(s)
- Paul W.S. Anderson
- Distributor(s)
- Universal
- MPAA Rating
- R
- Runtime
- 89 min.
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Critic Reviews
The movie is legitimately greasy, authentically nasty, with a good old-fashioned sense of laying waste to everything in sight -- including the shallow philosophizing and computer-generated fakery that have overrun the summer blockbuster.Read the full review
Soft sexual and racial jabs replace the more daring political commentary of the original, a crude classic from the Roger Corman factory.Read the full review
Smartly, Anderson makes some eclectic casting choices that keep the story from feeling as though it's populated by video-game characters.Read the full review
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