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Death Race (2008) More at IMDbPro »

• Factual errors: The characteristics of the grenade launcher RPG-7 given in movie are incorrect.
  
  
• Continuity: The Chevy SS in which Martinez arrives at the end of the movie first when she stops the car the wheels are all the way to the right and when she gets off the car the wheels are all the way to the left.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In many spots where cars are flipping upside down and in the air, you can see from the undercarriage the drivetrain (engine, transmission, driveshafts) have already been pulled from the car.
  
  

• Continuity: Right after Frank rips the picture with his daughter and starts talking to Coach, there is a shot from behind coach where he is wearing a Terminal Prison jacket, even though every other shot just has him in a blue shirt.
  
  
• Continuity: In the last race Machine Gun Joe' and Jensen Ames' head lights change. One shot Jensen Ames head lights are out while Machine Gun Joe has-his head lights on and vice versa. also At one shot you see that Machine Gun Joe has one head light out and in another shot he has both head lights on same with Jensen Ames head lights
  
  
• Continuity: Lists is shown having his left hand stomped on very hard by one of Pachenko's crew members, yet the next day there are no signs of injury.
  
  
• Factual errors: The twin Gatling guns on Frankenstein's car are more likely 7.62mm and not 30mm as stated in the movie. A 30mm round is 1.18 inches in diameter, much bigger than what is seen being fired.
  
  
• Continuity: At the end of the second stage fight, when the "armed trailer truck" strikes against a death head, the upper section comes off and gets jerked ahead. There is a side view first followed by a front view. The rear part of this upper section seems to go up inexplicably fast, in the front view after considering side view.
  
  
• Factual errors: At the introduction Coach tells Frank that the back protection plate AKA Tombstone is 6" thick solid steel. There are 4 plates 1.5" thick each and about 40", 50", 60" and 70" by about 48" tall. That is about 1972 kilogram or 4340 lbs. of steel. That would make the car so back heavy that at the first hitting of any bump the front of the car would go up and make controlling impossible. Besides that it will also be so heavy that the car won't be fit for race.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: The Gatling guns consistently use the sound of a much lower rate of fire machine gun, e.g. M60. The sound would be more like "Brrrrr" than "Da-da-da".
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): In the 3rd round, the announcer describes the contest as "mano y mano". That means "hand and hand". It's an all-too-common mistake, thinking that the real expression (mano a mano) means "man against man"; it doesn't. It means "hand to hand" combat.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): One of the characters remarks that the .50 caliber bullets will go through the Tombstone in a few seconds. But a .50 caliber round wouldn't even make a dent in 6" of solid steel.
  
  
• Continuity: In the "Stage 2" race when the Dreadnought hits towards the death trap the guards are falling all over the road, but in the next take when the truck hits the ground all of them have disappeared.
  
  
• Continuity: In the scene where Joe asks his partner's driver to light his cigar he is lighting up, but in the next take the cigar is not lit.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Machine Gun Joe said "thou shall not kill" while cutting his own face, you hear the word "kill" but his mouth/tongue doesn't move.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Martinez sticks her head through the sunroof during the race, her hair stays in place - not at all affected by the speeding car.
  
  
• Continuity: In round one when Frankenstein is shoved into something his cars front bumper and a few other parts fall off, but once out of the building its back together.
  
  
• Continuity: When Jensen first asks lists how many people Frank has killed he says 20, but at the end of stage 2, when it has the lists of the drivers and the ones who are dead, it says Frankenstein only killed 15 and his car is named the monster on that list. While all the other cars have their actually names, Frank's car is a Ford Mustang.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In stage 3, then Frank and Case release the tombstone, its shown to bounce away in the direction opposite from their Mustang. If the tombstone is just released from the Mustang with mechanical latches, it would bounce in the same direction the Mustang for some time due to the momentum it has from being carried on the Mustang. The only way it could instantly change directions is if it was projected with some other force like an explosive charge, but that is obviously not the case as there would definitely be a blast show. If there was a blast powerful enough to launch the tombstone with that great of force, the mustang would have been launched forward quickly as well, but most likely would have exploded since that launching charge would have detonated the unprotected fuel tank.
  
  
• Factual errors: The front firing weapons fitted to Pachenko's car are WW-II vintage German MG-34 7.92mm machine guns and Russian PPSh-41 7.62mm submachine guns; the former have Gurttrommel 34 drum magazines each containing a 50 round belt, while the latter can take either a 71 round drum magazine, or a 36 round curved stack magazine. That makes them unsuitable for prolonged firing, as they lack sufficient ammunition and their location also makes them impossible to reload during a race. Plus, they wouldn't even make a dent on the "tombstone". Also, the flexible navigator operated machine gun on Carson's car is manually charged and fired, so the activation/kill switch mechanism for it would have to block either the charger or the trigger, but no such thing is visible.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: During the intro to stage 3, we see the close up of Frank snapping Pachenko's neck then the camera changes to a wide shot of Frank and a dead Pachenko. This is how the audience viewing Death Race saw it, yet since it is included in the preview to stage 3 the in-movie audience sees, they see a close up shot of Frank killing Pachenko, then a wide shot which shows there was no camera in place to take the earlier shot.
  
  
• Continuity: (At 00:54:10) Jensen tears the other man out of the photo of his daughter using a single tear. The camera pulls back to show him drop two pieces of torn paper, not one.
  
  

• Continuity: SPOILER: In the escape scene, one of the warden's men says "70 million viewers..." but when they show the counter there are actually over 96 million.
  
  

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