Why do I put myself through this? A long time ago I watched anything and everything when it came to films (no, I tell a lie, I have never succeeded with a traditional Bollywood film, but that’s a different story) The theory was you need to watch a bad film to know what a good film is. Bollocks. It may give you a sense of relativity, but it’s JUST NOT WORTH THE HASSLE!!! Bad films (and when I say bad, I mean irretrievably bad) are simply a waste of time. Why not watch something mediocre, average, or even better watch a great film that you’ve seen before.
Now Death Racers is a carry over from the bad ole’ days. It’s in a back catalogue of films I have to get through simply because of my obsessive nature and it’s bad.
A cheap and nasty (but not nasty in a good sense) rip off of either Death Race 2000 (1975) or the remake (2008) it failed to impress on any level. At All. Bad acting, direction and script, it over relies on washed out digital effects and jump cuts, trying to be stylish……it doesn’t. Even the film quality reeks of a £120 digicam…..I ask myself again, why do I put myself through this and the answer is……I won’t do much longer.
