Death Race 2000

Starring:Wendy Bartel, Carle Bensen, David Carradine, Roberta Collins, Fred Grandy, Simone Griffeth, Joyce Jameson, Martin Kove, Paul Laurence, Sandy McCallum, Leslie McRae, Harriet Medin, Bill Morey, Louisa Moritz, William Shephard, Sylvester Stallone, Don Steele, Vince Trankina, Mary Woronov
Studio: New Concorde
Product Type: DVD

Editorial Review:
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No doubt about it, Death Race 2000 is one of the greatest B-movies ever made. A crown jewel in the career of B-movie king Roger Corman, it's a sublime example of exploitative filmmaking from a time when Corman's low-budget quickies were about to be swept aside by the blockbuster success of Jaws and Star Wars, and all of its outrageous ingredients combined to create a schlock-movie masterpiece. Liberally infused with director Paul Bartel's macabre sense of humor, Corman's mandatory formula for success (R-rated violence and nudity, served up at least once every 15 minutes) is zanily applied to a near-future scenario (similar to Rollerball, also released in 1975) in which a fascist empire appeases its oppressed citizens with "Death Race 2000," an automotive spectacle in which five costumed racers drive wacky race cars cross-country from New York to "New Los Angeles," scoring points with hit-and-run killings awarded on a sliding scale, with highest points for hitting children and the elderly! In addition to "Calamity Jane" (played by former Andy Warhol acolyte Mary Woronov), "Matilda the Hun" (Roberta Collins), and "Nero the Hero" (Martin Kove), the hottest contestants are "Machine Gun" Joe Viturbo (Sylvester Stallone, on the verge of Rocky stardom) and the reigning champion "Frankenstein" (David Carradine), whose "Death Race" prowess has reached near-mythic proportions.

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No doubt about it, Death Race 2000 is one of the greatest B-movies ever made. A crown jewel in the career of B-movie king Roger Corman, it's a sublime example of exploitative filmmaking from a time when Corman's low-budget quickies were about to be swept aside by the blockbuster success of Jaws and Star Wars, and all of its outrageous ingredients combined to create a schlock-movie masterpiece. Liberally infused with director Paul Bartel's macabre sense of humor, Corman's mandatory formula for success (R-rated violence and nudity, served up at least once every 15 minutes) is zanily applied to a near-future scenario (similar to Rollerball, also released in 1975) in which a fascist empire appeases its oppressed citizens with "Death Race 2000," an automotive spectacle in which five costumed racers drive wacky race cars cross-country from New York to "New Los Angeles," scoring points with hit-and-run killings awarded on a sliding scale, with highest points for hitting children and the elderly! In addition to "Calamity Jane" (played by former Andy Warhol acolyte Mary Woronov), "Matilda the Hun" (Roberta Collins), and "Nero the Hero" (Martin Kove), the hottest contestants are "Machine Gun" Joe Viturbo (Sylvester Stallone, on the verge of Rocky stardom) and the reigning champion "Frankenstein" (David Carradine), whose "Death Race" prowess has reached near-mythic proportions.

Filmed for $300,000 on desert-road and freeway locations throughout California's San Fernando Valley, Death Race 2000 packs more entertainment into 78 minutes than most movies can muster in two hours or more. Although it originated as a serious short story by Ib Melchior (best known as the writer-director of The Angry Red Planet), Corman took a cue from Dr. Strangelove and gave the material a satirical spin, resulting in non-graphic road-kills that are more hilarious than horrific, especially with the play-by-play race commentary by legendary disc jockey "The Real Don Steele," whose priceless performance (along with Carradine's deadpan drollery) turns Death Race 2000 into a low-comedy classic. The deadly car bodies were designed by Dean Jeffries (who also customized the "Monkeemobile") and fitted onto Volkswagen chassis, and Bartel's ingenious use of a meager budget epitomized the Corman aesthetic, reaping impressive box-office profits on its way to becoming one of the most beloved cult classics of all time. --Jeff Shannon

Description

"Low budget films allow one to experiment, to take chances with a zany idea like DEATH RACE 2000. Paul Bartel had the type of black humor that was required to direct this cross-country racing mayhem; while Chuck Griffith handled 2nd unit direction for the action sequences, featuring futuristic fast cars created by an award-winning designer. To compete with David Carradine's dark hero, I cast Sylvester Stallone as the heavy, whom I had first noticed with his brilliant performance in THE LORDS OF FLATBUSH. This combination was particularly effective, and DEATH RACE 2000 remains one of my most successful films of all time." -- Roger Corman In the year 2000, hit and run has become the national sport. It's a no-holds barred cross-country race, in which the aim is to kill off not only your opponents, but as many pedestrians as possible. David Carradine takes on Sylvester Stallone in this classic adrenaline thriller that will make you look both ways twice before you cross.

Customer Reviews:

Before he was Frank Leone, Marion Cobretti, Lincoln Hawk, or John Rambo Sly was..."Machine Gun" Joe Viterbo!.......2007-06-26

Its funny to think that people in 1975 thought life in 2000 would be so B. Apparently in 1975, blood of the future is red paint. Mowing down infants is a desireable action, and the national sport of choice would be the Death Race. In this enthralling sport portrayed in a true B classic, crushing someone's head under the wheel of your mid 70's american muscle car that looks nothing like a futuristic automobile is pretty much the zenith. Oh wait, these are all just aspects of the awful special effects in Death Race. How could we not love this film? Apparently Stallone followed his adult film up with this beaut. And, he delivered the goods in both. He gave us a halmark for a Sid the Elf Classic: terrible dialouge. Our favorite line from the Italian Stallion was:"I got two words for that Bull and..." You know where its going.

You should have driven through the boy scout camp! .......2007-06-23

A friend of mine at work [who has been making an ALARMING number of good movie and music recommendations lately] rather insisted that I watch this movie, and so, at a moment of filmic indecision [Rhinestone, starring Sylvester Stallone and Dolly Parton, was next on my list], I threw this one up there and it was speedily delivered to me.

This movie was made in 1975 and takes place in 2000, which is obviously delightful. When we see a long matte shot of Manhattan, it's hard to believe anyone thought that all that building and addition of elevated monorails would have taken place in just 25 years--but it's charming. The rest of the movie mostly takes place in the desert, but there are a few "futuristic" buildings [circa 1975] driven by every now and then. This made me think that surely some movie is coming up soon that will take place in a world transformed by global warming.

This was apparently taken from a serious sci-fi novel, but when Roger Corman [that's right] thought about the elements he thought it would work better as a comedy that gradually moves into more serious satiric elements. We are at the Transcontinental Road Race, which is sort of a futuristic Cannonball Run, where the participants gain points by killing pedestrians, with children and old people scoring the most points. The credits are these pencil drawings of cool cars that look like something that cool guy in your 1975 math class would draw on the inside of his denim notebook, then we meet our contestants as they are interviewed by reporters. One reporter is this overexcited gay-seeming dude with Elvis glasses and hair [futuristic!], an irritating nasal voice and long scarf around his neck. There's also Grace Pander, a Rona Barrett-style entertainment reporter who claims to be "a very dear friend" of all the celebrities she covers. There's also a droll guy who speaks like Howard Cosell. Naturally it's occurring to me that a great many people reading this may be too young to know who these people are. Oh dear.

The notable racers are Sylvester Stallone [still couldn't avoid him, I guess] two years before Rocky, as the gangster-styled Machine Gun Joe, who drives a car with two machine guns and a giant knife attached to the hood. And, as the gay reporter says: "Don't forget that swastika sweetheart, Matilda the Hun, with her Nazi navigator!" We also meet John Carradine as Frankenstein, who dresses like a mix of Batman and Darth Vader, and who claims to be stitched together by so many various body parts. There's a funny moment [I mean, among ALL the funny moments] when Grace Pander leans in and asks Frankenstein to "give me an exclusive," and then asks her question in front of all the other reporters. Also on hand is some Catherine Bach-type, apparently played by a former Warhol associate, who talks about the sexual satisfaction she gets from her navigator, some generic hunk smoking a cigar. Most of the other navigators are women, and it is explicitly presented that part of their responsibilities are in caring for the sexual needs of their drivers. Hey, it's Corman.

The President comes out to bless the proceedings--this is a federally-sponsored event--and hails a "glorious day of minority privilege." When I first heard this I thought he was referring to the way some people feel that minorities as we have come to think of them--blacks, gays, etc.,--are the recipient of "privileges" and special treatment, and I think this just comes from forgetting that this movie is 30 years old--and assuming that since it is ostensibly trashy it is politically located toward the right. Well, you know what they say about what happens when you assume.

So the racers go through Lincoln Tunnel and in seemingly five minutes are on this country mountain dirt road that looks remarkably like Northern California. I guess the environment really has changed. Then we divert to a group of rebels who feel that the race is a disgrace to the nation, and are led by a woman I believe is loosely patterned after Emma Goldman.

SPOILERS > > >

So then Frankenstein takes off his mask and we discover that he's really NOT hideously disfigured underneath. I just love the way that rolls off the tongue: Hideously Disfigured. Then Stallone machetes a guy's balls off with his car [turns out the guy, like everyone else here, bleeds fire engine red paint]. Then we see a bunch of old people lined up in the middle of the road, smiling, and we learn that this is "euthanasia day." Which is effectively disturbing. But Frankenstein avoids the elderly and diverts to hit what appears to be a line of nurses walking in a row, evenly spaced apart. I laughed heartily at a line about "You should have taken the road I told you about, through the boy scout camp!" Then at night all the drivers, who have apparently spread themselves out miles away from each other across the country, come back to one hotel to be rubbed down and interviewed. Is this not SO like The Cannonball Run?

That night Frankenstein goes over and says nothing to Stallone's navigator, but it looks like he said something, and Stallone comes and really punches her hard. Then Frankenstein's navigator, whose name is Sarah or Emma or something I can't remember now, offers her body to him and they get it on. Then the Frankenstein's "biggest fan" corners him in the hall downstairs... and tomorrow they're all back on the road again. We see that the big fan from the night before is outfitted in a white dress, standing in the middle of the road, eager to be killed by her idol. He obliges.

It goes on, but by now the novelty is starting to wear off a little bit. We start getting more resistance from the, well, resistance, which is immediately and hilariously blamed on the French. After not too long we have one of my favorite lines, just for it's simple directness: "Stop the car!" "I can't... we're in a race!" I'm not going to tell you the ending, although the phrase "grenade hand" does figure into it, and in the end Frankenstein becomes "Mister President Frankenstein." The guy at work who recommended this to me would reminisce about it, say "Mister President Frankenstein" to himself, and then just giggle.

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It sure is something. It's charming because it is SO absolutely adolescent, so entirely created to appeal to the base instincts of the 14-year-old boy in all of us, with the cool cars and the hot chicks and the violence and the guys getting it in the nuts... and most of all, the whole naughty concept of running over pedestrians for points. But through it all the movie remains more cheeky than offensive, mostly because the violence here is so cartoony. In most cases we don't actually SEE the car hit the person, we just see the car driving fast and then the person flipping up into the air. The blood is so red and fake-looking it's like something out of a small town Halloween haunted house. So it's mischievous and somewhat evil but in the most harmless and fun way.

But there's more than just cool fun in mind, because of the whole political satire aspects of it. Okay, it's really lame political satire [the government sponsors this race to keep the people placated, not too far away from the message of Rollerball], but there's something interesting about the way this movie starts out by generating viewer excitement with the whole idea of running over pedestrians, then widens so we see that this whole race is part of a larger government plan that involves sacrificing the country's citizens... it's vague and silly, but hey, they didn't have to add that element at all.

Reviewing Death Race 2000.......2007-05-19

Product was as described and I was fully satisfied with the purchase.

Amusing.......2007-03-29

A good "B" movie for it's time. Funny to look back and watch what they thought would be the future in 2000.
Classic actors in thier younger days,

Still gripping after all these years.......2007-02-11

Death Race 2000 is a film where a cross country race in which points are gathered by running over pedesterians on the road. It is a very dark and very sick, yet very funny at the same time. I especially like a pre Rocky Sylvester Stallone as one of the contestants who probably enjoys the race too much. This movie goes to show that you do not have to spend a lot of money to make an entertaining film.

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Starring: Roberta Collins , Simone Griffeth , Sandy Ignon , Joyce Jameson , and Martin Kove
Director: Paul Bartel
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Before he was Frank Leone, Marion Cobretti, Lincoln Hawk, or John Rambo Sly was..."Machine Gun" Joe Viterbo!.......2007-06-26

You should have driven through the boy scout camp! .......2007-06-23

Reviewing Death Race 2000.......2007-05-19

Product was as described and I was fully satisfied with the purchase.

Amusing.......2007-03-29

A good "B" movie for it's time. Funny to look back and watch what they thought would be the future in 2000.
Classic actors in thier younger days,

Still gripping after all these years.......2007-02-11

Death Race 2000 - Special Edition (UMD Mini For PSP)

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Before he was Frank Leone, Marion Cobretti, Lincoln Hawk, or John Rambo Sly was..."Machine Gun" Joe Viterbo!
You should have driven through the boy scout camp!
Reviewing Death Race 2000
Amusing
Still gripping after all these years

Death Race 2000 - Special Edition (UMD Mini For PSP)
Starring: Roberta Collins , Simone Griffeth , Sandy Ignon , Joyce Jameson , and Martin Kove
Director: Paul Bartel
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Release Date: 2005-12-13

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"Low budget films allow one to experiment, to take chances with a zany idea like DEATH RACE 2000. Paul Bartel had the type of black humor that was required to direct this cross-country racing mayhem; while Chuck Griffith handled 2nd unit direction for the action sequences, featuring futuristic fast cars created by an award-winning designer. To compete with David Carradine's dark hero, I cast Sylvester Stallone as the heavy, whom I had first noticed with his brilliant performance in THE LORDS OF FLATBUSH. This combination was particularly effective, and DEATH RACE 2000 remains one of my most successful films of all time." -- Roger Corman~~In the year 2000, hit and run has become the national sport. It's a no-holds barred cross-country race, in which the aim is to kill off not only your opponents, but as many pedestrians as possible. David Carradine takes on Sylvester Stallone in this classic adrenaline thriller that will make you look both ways twice before you cross.~

Customer Reviews:

Before he was Frank Leone, Marion Cobretti, Lincoln Hawk, or John Rambo Sly was..."Machine Gun" Joe Viterbo!.......2007-06-26

You should have driven through the boy scout camp! .......2007-06-23

Reviewing Death Race 2000.......2007-05-19

Product was as described and I was fully satisfied with the purchase.

Amusing.......2007-03-29

A good "B" movie for it's time. Funny to look back and watch what they thought would be the future in 2000.
Classic actors in thier younger days,

Still gripping after all these years.......2007-02-11

Average customer rating:

Before he was Frank Leone, Marion Cobretti, Lincoln Hawk, or John Rambo Sly was..."Machine Gun" Joe Viterbo!
You should have driven through the boy scout camp!
Reviewing Death Race 2000
Amusing
Still gripping after all these years

Death Race 2000
Starring: Wendy Bartel , Carle Bensen , David Carradine , Roberta Collins , and Fred Grandy
Manufacturer: New Concorde
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Before he was Frank Leone, Marion Cobretti, Lincoln Hawk, or John Rambo Sly was..."Machine Gun" Joe Viterbo!.......2007-06-26

You should have driven through the boy scout camp! .......2007-06-23

Reviewing Death Race 2000.......2007-05-19

Product was as described and I was fully satisfied with the purchase.

Amusing.......2007-03-29

A good "B" movie for it's time. Funny to look back and watch what they thought would be the future in 2000.
Classic actors in thier younger days,

Still gripping after all these years.......2007-02-11

Death Race 2000 / Night of the Living Dead (Double Feature) (Digitally Remastered)

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Score points by killing people"

Death Race 2000 / Night of the Living Dead (Double Feature) (Digitally Remastered)

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Death Race 2000 - Special Edition

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DEATH RACE 2000: In a boorish future, the government sponsors a popular, but bloody, cross-country race in which points are scored by hitting pedestrians....NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD: Flesh-eating corpses relentlessly attack seven people secluded in a Pennsylvania farmhouse.

Customer Reviews:

Score points by killing people".......2006-11-19

This cult movie is a little bloody but good.Its a cult classic and a must for cult movie fans.Sylvester stallone plays machine gun joe viturbo and takes out his share of people while his rival frankenstein also runs over quite a few people.I didnt expect much from an inexpensive movie but was quite surprised when i played it.The quality is pretty good for a cheap movie and i think anyone would be happy with it.I paid 92 cents for it and im happy.

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Cheesy Fun.
Wow...
'Death Race 2000' is a winner!

Death Race 2000
Starring: Sylvester Stallone; David Carradine
Director: Paul Bartel
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Sci-fi futuristic comedy.

Customer Reviews:

Cheesy Fun........2005-10-31

Not as good as I remember form my childhood,(back then running over people to score points was considered controversial). Still lots of fun though. Check out Sly on the cover art. That silly grin should prepare you for the inane( but funny) premise of this film. Vehicular high-jinks aplenty!!!

Wow..........2005-09-29

When I was a kid and saw this film I thought that it was the greatest...Wow have things changed! Bad acting, terrible movie plot but still hysterically FUNNY!

'Death Race 2000' is a winner!.......2004-06-25

Lookin' to add a little something to my already-overflowing collection of cult/cheeseball/trash cinema classics, 'Death Race 2000' appeared to be a promising "keeper" for my video shelf. Fortunately it didn't disappoint-- there's plenty of over-the-top antics, hilariously dark humor, and one of the most poorly-done fistfights between the film's two most notable stars, Sylvester Stallone and David Carradine. I tell ya, if ever there was a scene that coulda' used a little bit more of the fight choreography that Stallone used in the "Rocky" flicks, his dust-up with the future star of "Kung Fu" really needed it! Also notable is Sly's acting range, which is almost as broad as that of Carradine's-- which is to say it ain't that broad, really.

Alongside the silliness is the premise of the racers running over pedestrians to score points in this transcontinental confrontation, a sporting event that's used as a tool by the dystopic United Provinces of America to distract the citizenry from what their government is doing to them. Throw in a little intrigue by the rebel forces out to sabotage the race, and a highly unflattering take on overly-cheerful newscasters & sports announcers, and you've got a very satirical "message movie" with violence that's so over-the-top, you'd swear it was something outta the mind of Paul Verhoeven! 'Course, seeing as how I enjoyed such Verhoeven-helmed future-based fare as 'Starship Troopers', 'RoboCop', and 'Total Recall', it's no surprise that I highly enjoyed 'Death Race 2000' as well. Which makes me wonder what a re-make of this movie under the direction of cinema's maddest Dutchman would be like. Hey, a guy can dream, right? And it'd be a perfect vehicle (so to speak) for the guy to get out of the box-office-bomb rut he's been in since 'Showgirls'...

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Charlie Rose with Richard Berke & Ronald Brownstein; E.J. Dionne; Bill Moyers (September 8, 2000)

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Richard Berke of The New York Times and Ronald Brownstein of The Los Angeles Times discuss the virtual dead heat between Vice President Al Gore and Governor of Texas George W. Bush in the presidential race after Bush's lead has evaporated. Then, E.J. Dionne of the Brookings Institute on the same topic. Finally, broadcast journalist Bill Moyers talks about improving end of life care in America, the subject of his new PBS series, On Our Own Terms: Moyers on Dying.

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Before he was Frank Leone, Marion Cobretti, Lincoln Hawk, or John Rambo Sly was..."Machine Gun" Joe Viterbo!
You should have driven through the boy scout camp!
Reviewing Death Race 2000
Amusing
Still gripping after all these years

Death Race 2000
Starring: Wendy Bartel , Carle Bensen , David Carradine , Roberta Collins , and Fred Grandy
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Before he was Frank Leone, Marion Cobretti, Lincoln Hawk, or John Rambo Sly was..."Machine Gun" Joe Viterbo!.......2007-06-26

You should have driven through the boy scout camp! .......2007-06-23

Reviewing Death Race 2000.......2007-05-19

Product was as described and I was fully satisfied with the purchase.

Amusing.......2007-03-29

A good "B" movie for it's time. Funny to look back and watch what they thought would be the future in 2000.
Classic actors in thier younger days,

Still gripping after all these years.......2007-02-11

Average customer rating:

Before he was Frank Leone, Marion Cobretti, Lincoln Hawk, or John Rambo Sly was..."Machine Gun" Joe Viterbo!
You should have driven through the boy scout camp!
Reviewing Death Race 2000
Amusing
Still gripping after all these years

Death Race 2000

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Before he was Frank Leone, Marion Cobretti, Lincoln Hawk, or John Rambo Sly was..."Machine Gun" Joe Viterbo!.......2007-06-26

You should have driven through the boy scout camp! .......2007-06-23

Reviewing Death Race 2000.......2007-05-19

Product was as described and I was fully satisfied with the purchase.

Amusing.......2007-03-29

A good "B" movie for it's time. Funny to look back and watch what they thought would be the future in 2000.
Classic actors in thier younger days,

Still gripping after all these years.......2007-02-11

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A waste of ten bucks
John Woo, eat your heart out.
Had potential for more, but IMPRESSIVE nonetheless
THIS MOVIE IS THE MAIN REASON TO BUY A SURROUND SOUND 5.1

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Starring: Aaron Kwok , Phyllis Quek , James Lye , Daniel Wu (II) , and Gigi Choi
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Customer Reviews:

A waste of ten bucks.......2003-02-20

I picked this up based on the reviews I read on Amazon and the low price. I was expecting a movie that rivals John Woo's Hard Boiled for non-stop action. Also a "Hollywood Style" flick that kept me riveted to the screen. I was sorely disappointed. I was stupefied by the first few minutes. Why were there jets flying around? It seems the jets were there just so they could put them on the DVD cover. Then a Singaporean general gave a boring speech about the "real war" on the internet. What on earth was he talking about? The rest of the film has a cliched plot about innocent guy whose brother creates a computer program that could crash the stock market. At two points the world stock market appears erased. The ending doesn't 'wrap it up'. I never found out if the Stock Market recovered. Does anyone know?
Only saving grace for 2000 A.D. was a couple of good action sequences about 30-45 minutes in. They were surprisingly brutal. If I were ever to watch this film again I would definitely skip to these scenes.
I recommend you get classic Hong Kong cinema such as "Hard Boiled" or "Naked Killer" instead.
Actually "Gen-X Cops" or "Black Mask 2" look like more fun than this.
I'll let you know.

John Woo, eat your heart out........2001-07-14

There are two main reasons why 2000 AD stands above films such as "Gen-X Cops" and other recent Hong Kong attempts to emulate the Hollywood "style". Reason number 1: PACING! Gordon Chan realizes that all the top Hollywood action films are paced so that any plot problems are glossed over quickly and the audience is kept busy with action and intrigue. In comparison, many of the other Hollywood-wannabe films from HK have suffered from slow or erratic pacing, resulting in an awkward film that feels neither like a Hong Kong film nor a Hollywood one. Reason number 2: Hands-down the BEST SHOOTOUTS since John Woo left Hong Kong. Seriously. The most incredible part of Gordon Chan's virtuoso action scenes is that he does NOT ape the Woo style, but employs his own unique approach. Specifically, he goes for a very hard-hitting, realistic style. No slow-mo or double pistols. It's all about bad-... weaponry and real-world military tactics. The first two gun battles in this film should have any red-blooded action fan jumping out of his/her seat. If you liked the street shootout in Michael Mann's "Heat", then you should get a kick of 2000 AD.

Had potential for more, but IMPRESSIVE nonetheless.......2001-06-29

"2000 A.D.", starring Heavenly King Aaron Kwok, boosted up Raintree Pictures of Singapore to a new level. Aaron Kwok, Richard Ng, and the bad-guy (forgot his name:P) all give the audience new perspectives. The editing is very original, and sound will blow you away. "2000 A.D." managed to bring audiences something new. With special effects brought to the screen from the team that worked on "INDEPENDENCE DAY", and with Aaron Kwok being the first to fly an F16 in an Asian film, director Gordan Chan never fails at surprising his audience. However, if you're looking for kung-fu, go look for Jet Li classics. If you're looking for something to blow-up and make the walls shake, "2000 A.D." is near perfect. Director Gordan Chan did well, and even though Aaron's acting was at times sketchy, overall performance and plot were well developed. - Priscilla

THIS MOVIE IS THE MAIN REASON TO BUY A SURROUND SOUND 5.1.......2000-11-16

This movie is great,showing Aron Kwoks style of Fighting and Gun Play.The Fight scene are well done by Yuen Tak.The moody soundtrack is great,and well edit action scene to make the flow of Drama.The rooftop fight scene will show how important to show the style of modern day fighting. The Story is complex, and too many characters to know. Once Kwok and his little group of friends are introduced they become involved in a rather complex and confusing international espionage involving the theft of a sophisticated computer program. Andrew Lin is cast as a renegade CIA agent behind the theft and the murders along the way. The stylized action sequences are very taut and explosive, as is expected in a Gordon Chan film. The director uses some startling editing and camera effects to show a unique perspective on the explosive violence. Also a new actor name MIKE CHAN has a rare CAMEO as himself.(SELINA'S Friend who gave back the Ring). Im telling you guys,the conclusion will make you fell special.

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