I was torn between walking out immediately and staying to witness a spectacle more dismaying than anything on the screen: the way small children were digging gratuitous bloodshed.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Apr 29, 2018

Behold the power of cheese!

| Original Score: B- | Jun 17, 2010

The conception and execution are top-notch low-budget trash.

| Original Score: B+ | Aug 25, 2008

It has a comic strip premise which is neverthless wholly credible in a sick sort of way.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 6, 2008

The story, about a road race in the not-too-distant future for which the drivers are given points for running down pedestrians, becomes an elaborate and telling fantasy about our peculiar popular entertainments. Fine work carved from minimal materials.

| Mar 28, 2007

Script, from an Ib Melchior story, makes its satirical points economically, and director Paul Bartel keeps the film moving quickly.

| Mar 28, 2007

Overall the movie isn't as synchromeshed as it might be; the rivalry between champions Carradine and Stallone isn't very interesting, and some of the gags aren't sick or funny enough. But it's a great audience film.

| Jan 26, 2006

Corman didn't direct the drive-in hit Death Race 2000, but it bears his imprint of economic utilitarianism.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 23, 2005

In the end, it reveals itself to have nothing to say beyond the superficial about government or rebellion. And in the absence of such a statement, it becomes what it seems to have mocked -- a spectacle glorifying the car is an instrument of violence.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 9, 2005

This is director Paul Bartel and writer Robert Thom at their most deliriously twisted and producer Roger Corman at his most visionary.

| Mar 10, 2003