Deathrace 2000 Reviews

Cult Classic

This film is a cult classic, Set in the futre year of 2000 and worth watching for the comedy value alone. The scene where the geriatrics are left outside the local hospital to be run over is just hillarious. The lead character dresses up like the Gimp from Pulp Fiction and any acts of sabotage against the race gets blamed on 'the French & their stinky European cousins'.

They really don't make them like they used to.

It also has Sylvester Stallone starring in it before he became famous, and directly influenced the computer game Carmagedden.

More delightfully sick humor from Bartel (EATING RAOUL). In a boorish future, the government sponsors a popular, but bloody, cross-country race in which points are scored by mowing down pedestrians--with bonus points for the elderly! Five teams, each comprised of a male and female, compete using cars equipped with deadly weapons. Frankenstein, the mysterious returning champion, has become America's hero, but this time he has a passenger from the underground resistance. A legendary cult film.

20 points!

It is the year 2000. Five racers are in a race across america, the more people they hit, the more points they get. This film is just worth a watch for any of you who have nearly hit someone in your car and said, 'dam! that would of been 20 points!'

Dated - but fun

I remember loving this on video as a teenager in the eighties, but revisiting it on DVD it hasn't aged particularly well. It's a high-camp black comedy about a futuristic cross-America 'death race', made by Roger Corman for about ten quid, and plays like a cross between Russ Meyers and Mad Max. Gratuitous bad-taste violence and nudity throughout liven it up a bit. But seriously: I'd watch Mad Max over it any day.

Excellent

you run them over for points, different people are worth different points. cars with all sorts of weapons on them

Death Race 2000

In the near future the ultimate sporting event is the deathrace. Contestants get to score points for running people down as they speed across the country. The sport has crazed fans who sacrifice themselves to the drivers. An overt agency is trying to bring an end to the immoral deathrace and has infiltrated one of their followers in to the race as a navigator. In the end of the race the lives of the competitors, the President and the deathrace itself are in peril.

Perfect B-Movie

This is this perfect B-Movie from the legendary Roger Corman. Innovative and poignant.

just awful

Just awful - pastiche of so many other 70's movies. Terrible script, terrible acting, terrible cinematography....yeah, I know, for some people thats the whole point of watching it now...but what was the point of making it then.....? Some people may be able to watch this and have a laugh....maybe after a few drinks. Just awful. Watch it and weep. This review contains no spoilers as this film is already ruined.....

Rent something else

The film has a decent premise and what looks like a solid cast. However, it has dated horribly and must have left change from its $10 budget. If you have fond memories of this film from watching it 30 years ago, leave them as memories. This is not a 'classic'. This is garbage.

Abysmal

This is the worst pile of tosh I think I have ever seen, people told me this was a cult classic.

I think this is a complete waste of money, the worst acting I have ever seen, the worst storlyine, I only watched it to the end because I thought at some point this must get better. I was wrong