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Tue, Dec 20, 2005
Death Race 2000 - Special Edition
The Movie:
In the far flung future of the year 2000 (or at least what could have passed for the year 2000 back in 1975), America has become a fascist empire. The national sport is no longer baseball, but an annual 'Death Race' in which skilled race car drivers gun their customized four wheeled killing machines from one side of the country to the next, earning points for killing as many innocent bystanders as they can along the way. Every year the Death Race draws a huge crowd, it really is the event of the year akin to today's Super Bowl, but this year things promise to be even more intense than usual as the reigning champion, Frankenstein (David Carradine of Kung Fu and Kill Bill) has a new challenge in the form of a rookie driver named Joe Vitrubo (a young Sylvester Stallone of Rocky and Rambo fame).
Of course, there are other competitors to worry... Read the entire review
Death Race 2000 - Special Edition