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The car crashes and kill scenes swerve between brilliant and predictable and things lag a bit in the third act because, as Corman readily admits several of the discвЂ™s interviews, they had no idea how to end the movie, but there is still a wonderful anarchic punch to the proceedings. Everyone has their own slang and style, and even if it is generally on the nose, itвЂ™s also charming. The cowboy (actually cow girl) car is full of rootinвЂ™-tootinвЂ™ gunplay and double entendre. The Grecco-Roman car is filled with grapes and the male co-driver is a bit of aвЂ¦erвЂ¦вЂќboyloverвЂќ. And the driver of each vehicle is linked to this persona. There is the cowboy car, the nazi car, the gangster car, the Greco-Roman car. I suppose it could be a subtle jab at media manipulation, itвЂ™s certainly no more patently absurd than the idea that America would choose a different easily marketable niche as the winner of American Idol every year for nine years running.ДЄnd just as every American Idol winner has an obvious marketing gimmick, each of the different racers also has a signature style. How exactly do the scorekeepers know how hold the pedestrians are? Moreover, if itвЂ™s a race, why do all of the characters end each day at the exact same location? Perhaps itвЂ™s a rally, perhaps itвЂ™s not a race at all but rather a contest about how many civilians can be killed and the name вЂњraceвЂќ is just for pizzazz. Several early scenes are dedicated to explaining the rules of the race directly to the audience, but they never really make any sense. Consequently, upon first viewing one is actually surprised by the turn of events. Watching the film today, there is an extra layer of intrigue because weвЂ™ve been trained to see Stallone as a hero and in his later roles, Carradine began to play the villain.

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The movie has aged remarkably well in large part because Stallone went on to become Rocky and Carradine went on to become Bill. Frankenstein and Sylvester StalloneвЂ™s Machine Gun Joe Vertibo.

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The film is set in a not-too-distant future (now the past) where culture has eroded to the point where the biggest national sport is a cross country race wherein the drivers are encouraged to hit pedestrians and try to kill one another, (The writers obviously never imagined non-game shows like Deal or No Deal.) We follow the racers as they make their trek and slowly discover a larger conspiracy tied to David CarradineвЂ™s Dr.

Underneath the slapstick gore and voyeuristic charms Death Race 2000 is also a sly social and political satire that is every bit as prescient as Network or Robocop. A truly epic piece of Roger Corman produced madness, full of blood, guts, ridiculous character names, car crashes, and of course those wonderful, pre-plastic surgery era gratuitous nipple shots.* But what makes Death Race 2000 stand out from say, Gone in 60 Seconds, is that itвЂ™s more than just the above elements.

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