Death Race: Beyond Anarchy

Death Race: Beyond Anarchy goes full exploitation in an incredibly desperate attempt to revive the franchise. Sort of a soft reboot, the film takes place several years after the previous ones in a dystopian future where the Death Race is now an illegal broadcast on the Dark Web from a city prison that has been walled off and is controlled by the inmates (a la Escape from New York), and the prison sends in an agent undercover to infiltrate the race and beat the inmate’s leader, Frankenstein, in order to get the prison back under control. A couple of actors from the previous films are brought back, adding a sense of continuity, but they feel forced in. And the excessive nudity and violence feels really gratuitous. The worst film of the franchise, Death Race: Beyond Anarchy has none of the fun that the previous films had.

I can't decide if I like this one better or the first one. So much better than 2050 though. One of the better movies I've seen in a long time!!

Better than of 2 and 3, although far from the 1. More explicit violence

A bit better than the 2017 movie, but still largely under par compared to the initial movie.

Hard to believe they got someone of Danny Glover's caliber to sign up for this steaming pile of tripe. Danny Trejo...meh, he's known for doing garbage films and he kind of fits in there but not Danny Glover. The movie itself basically sucked; yes, there was lots of violence and carnage (and considerably more gore than the other films) but overall, this movie just really reeked. The premise was good but, again as in earlier DR films, just felt - and LOOKED - like it was very hastily thrown together. So much more could have been done with this particular movie but it just seemed like no one wanted to actually put a STORY together so much as compiling a lot of different scenes of wanton violence. There were some great characters here but they got basically their "15 minutes of fame" and were then thrown on the discard pile. Characters like Johnny Law, the Fireman, Matilda the Hun and others could've added so much more to this but turned into just "bit players" with hardly any mention. On a personal note, I found the language completely atrocious and all the added sleaze and lewdness added zilch. Dialogue was scarcely more than a bunch of horribly cheesy cliche's and lewd comments thrown together (_"I could suck you off right now."_ Classy, huh? Probably go down in time right up there with _"Here's looking at you, kid..."_ from _Casablanca_ , right? 🙄 ) and the closest thing to an actual conversation - the brief meeting between Conner and Frankenstein lasted...what?...all of 23 seconds and made absolutely no sense. I can't give this a true "Terrible" rating because the action was watch-worthy. Nothing else was, though, but I guess we don't watch these for intellectual stimulation, right? Disconnect your brain, plug your ears, turn on subtitles, and sit back and watch this one. Just don't expect much...

Dumb fun, but it's no Death Race 2.

_Death Race: Beyond Anarchy_ goes full exploitation in an incredibly desperate attempt to revive the franchise. Sort of a soft reboot, the film takes place several years after the previous ones in a dystopian future where the Death Race is now an illegal broadcast on the Dark Web from a city prison that has been walled off and is controlled by the inmates (a la _Escape from New York_), and the prison sends in an agent undercover to infiltrate the race and beat the inmate’s leader, Frankenstein, in order to get the prison back under control. A couple of actors from the previous films are brought back, adding a sense of continuity, but they feel forced in. And the excessive nudity and violence feels really gratuitous. The worst film of the franchise, _Death Race: Beyond Anarchy_ has none of the fun that the previous films had.

I would say: just embarassing.