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By taking this direction instead of a more somber note (like Logan’s Run), this little B-movie’s amount of violence and under-budget feel works (hat tip to for pointing this out). making a spectacle of everything, like the interview with the first road race victim’s wife in a talk show). the “Mercy Hospital” staff being mowed down instead of the wheelchair-bound people they set up) and satire (ex.
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It also helps that the movie isn’t too long, barely 1 hour 10 minutes, another surprise.Īside from violence, the movie is rife with black humor (ex. I do believe that there is a point where films can get too violent, like in Death Wish 3, and it would quickly stop being, for lack of a better word, entertaining. The main reason for my hesitation was that I found the whole “murdering for points” angle unsettling, even with the graphic effects being 42 years old (“dated” special effects don’t throw me off from submerging myself into old movies like some people are cursed to be).
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I’ve been aware of the cult carsploitation film Death Race 2000 for years, even a little before the recent movies inspired by it, but it was very recently that I decided to watch it. Not letting up and not moving out of his way, Frankenstein runs him over to the cheers of the crowd. A reporter/announcer took serious issue to the abolition of the Transcontinental Road Race. Frankenstein is now the President and he seems to get things back to how they were. President was, killing him.įast forward to Frankenstein and Annie getting married. Noticing how things weren’t working out, Frankenstein gets back into the driver’s seat and rams the stage where Mr. The plan would’ve worked if Thomasina Paine herself didn’t unknowingly shoot her own kin. President after crossing the finish line and winning the Transcontinental Road Race (well, everyone else was blown to bits). Having exhausted that possibility, Annie and Frankenstein pull the ol’ switcheroo on Mr. During their duel near the end, Annie was forced to use Frankenstein’s hand grenade against Joe. Having been tricked by Annie in one rest stop and beaten up in a fight by Frankenstein in another have pushed Joe too far. President’s hand.ĭuring the entire race, one of the biggest thorn on Frankenstein’s side was “Machine Gun” Joe Viterbo (Sylvester Stallone, who for some reason was given top billing in foreign-market movie posters, making him look like a hero), a violent man-child that has always been jealous of Frankenstein’s popularity despite his own gruesome achievements. President, having a hidden hand grenade just for him when he wins the race and shakes Mr. But this Frankenstein also had remorse towards Mr.
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The last failed rebel attempt (involving an airplane!) and the death of someone close to Annie finally prompted both of them to be truly open with each other: Frankenstein was just an image promoted by the government if he dies, another trained driver will take his place. While Frankenstein figured out Annie’s true objectives after a bodged rebel trap, he continued the race with her. During a rest stop, after planting some seeds of discord between his biggest rival’s team, we see that Frankenstein’s body was not a collection of grafted body parts, but a healthy human being hiding behind a mask and cape. The government did its best to cover it up, despite that more attacks were made and even a rebel-made nationwide broadcast was aired. Meanwhile, in the lust for points, one driver got blown to bits by a rebel trap. To get close to him, one of the rebels, Annie Paine (Simone Griffeth), relative of the rebels’ leader Thomasina Paine (Harriet Medin), becomes Frankenstein’s latest co-pilot.ĭuring the race, we see Frankenstein’s behavior to be far more benevolent than other racers, choosing not to kill easy and points-rich targets like the elderly. This makes him a far more significant target to the rebels. He’s considered a national hero and also a friend of the deified Mr. The main character is Frankenstein (David Carradine), a masked and rough character winner/survivor of previous races, at the cost of many of his original body parts. Behind the scenes, we have a rag tag bunch of rebels doing their best to sabotage the race and ultimately the regime. The machines built with speed and lethality for everyone outside the cockpit -particularly pedestrians, whose deaths tallied up as points- paled in comparison to the characters behind the wheel. The highly popular and brutally violent Transcontinental Road Race was to have its 20 th run, having existed for as long as the Roman Empire-like totalitarian regime that sponsored it after the collapse of the U.S.