Death Race

Get ready for a killer ride

Set in 2012, after the prisons in the US have all been privatised. To survive financially, they broadcast live entertainment on the Internet. One prison has car races, where you walk free after five wins. Losers lose by getting killed in the race. The prison boss frames a top driver and he ends up in her prison, where she persuades him to take part in just one race for his freedom, or spend the rest of his life in jail. This sets the scene for a non-stop high action race... to the death.

104 minutes.
No persons under 16 (Language, Violence).
Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller.

Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.

Just one more lap to go...

Credits

Cast	Jason Statham, Joan Allen, Ian McShane, Tyrese Gibson, Natalie Martinez, Max Ryan, Jacob Vargas, Jason Clarke
Director	Paul W.S. Anderson
Screenplay	Paul W.S. Anderson, based on the 1975 screenplay by Robert Thorn, Charles B. Griffith, based on the story by Ib Melchior
Music	Paul Haslinger
Cinematography	Scott Kevan
Editing	Niven Howie
Sound formats	Dolby Digital, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, DTS
Soundtrack	Available
Made in	2008
Produced by	Cruise/Wagner Productions, H2S2 Filproduktionsgeselsschaft, Impact Pictures, Relativity Media

Film and Publications Board (FPB) Report (SA)

Genre	Action
Language	Strong, frequent
Nudity	None
Sex	None
Violence	Strong, frequent
Prejudice	None
Blasphemy	None
Drug abuse	None
Comments	Intense realistic violence and dangerous driving stunts if imitated.
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ScreenIt Report (USA)

Sex / Nudity	Violence	Blood / Gore / Gross
Guns / Weapons	Profanity	Alcohol / Drugs
Smoking	Disrespectful / Bad Attitude	Imitative Behaviour
Frightening / Tense Scenes	Jump Scenes	Tense Family Scenes
Music (Scary/Tense)	Music (Inappropriate)	Topics to talk about

Ratings

Scale (Max)	20
What the Critics say
Cape Argus / The Star Helen Herimbi	10
Die Burger Francois Bloemhof	5
iAfrica.com Donna Cooper	5
The Citizen Peter Feldman	8
24.com Ivan Sadler	5
Chicago Sunday Times Roger Ebert An assault on all the senses, including common. Walking out, I had the impression I had just seen the video game and was still waiting for the movie.	3
ReelViews James Berardinelli This is The Fast and the Furious or Speed Racer on steroids, although it is more about violence and gore than cars.	13
ScreenIt C. Fuchs Had Anderson and company pressed the tongue-in-cheek pedal firmly to the satirical metal, this might have been a goofy and enjoyable, if ultra-violent offering. As it stands, and despite all of the action, fists, gunfire, explosions and more, Death Race ends up just driving in circles, constantly banging into the uninspired barriers of mediocrity before crashing in a heap of bad filmmaking.	7
Metacritic.com 24 critics	9
Rottentomatoes critics 130 critics	10
Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer Mindless, violent, and lightning-paced, Death Race is little more than an empty action romp.	8
What the People say
Internet 11276 Netizens Not Bad At All!	14
Average .. 40%	8