Death Race 4: Beyond Anarchy (2018 Video) User Reviews

Mad Max Death Race

[agillihc · 6/10 · 1 February 2018]

Dumb, Brutal and a Lot of Boobs. Absolutely enjoyable and better then the last ones.

"Beyond Anarchy" Is Right!

[LouAbbott · 6/10 · 12 October 2018]

"Death Race: Beyond Anarchy" is a mating of "The Road Warrior" and "Escape from New York." The plot? What plot and who cares? The plot can be figured out in less than 10 minutes. The plot is not the point. The point of the film is more violence, brutality, nudity, sex (lesbian and straight) then its predecessors. This film is a must for "Death Race" fans and those who like their violence, brutality, etc. over the top. This is a B-film action classic, and arguably the best film in the "Death Race" franchise.

Disappointing

[debspower · 5/10 · 4 February 2018]

Since when did it come more bout dumb bimbos running round naked and touching themselves up than the death race itself? It's a pity they ruined it with all the pointless bimbos coz there was some decent actors in it it could have been a lot better.

Rowdy and raw!!!!

[Dimple67 · 6 October 2018]

Heck yeah! Finally an unabashed real unrated movie! Not for everyone but for anyone who likes their meat served rare with a side of dish of brain-bashing action! Come and get some!

Fair

[Borncure · 3/10 · 5 February 2018]

They need to get to 220mph for a jump. We maxed out at 210. I dropped the tombstone. then he shifts 2 more times. Love Hollywood

An absolutely terrible movie and a lot of fun

[bachemar · 7/10 · 20 October 2018]

Plot holes? Sure! Pointless nudity? Heck yeah! Ridiculous explosions? You betcha! Acting that ranges from decent to terri-bad? Yep! I mean, going into it you have to expect, well...all these things. But it actually ends up being a pretty fun ride. And a bonus surprise credit song from one of my favorite bands, Highly Suspect, thrown in.

Complete Teen Trash

[Easygoer10 · 3/10 · 14 July 2019]

There isn't a single original scene or line in this film. The one with Jason Statham was the best of the (recent) lot, & I gave it a 6 (for semi-originality. This one is woeful pablum. I gave this trash a 3.

Great action and boobs

[ldvdriver2 · 7/10 · 27 September 2019]

Not a bad film at all. Great action movie but acting not so good. A bit far fetch as usual but definitely worth a watch . Girls very sexy and flashing bits about.

auto drive

[SnoopyStyle · 5/10 · 22 September 2019]

In an apocalyptic near future, the economy has collapsed. A rust town has been walled off. Death Race has been resurrected to rule the imprisoned population. Weyland has lost control to a new Frankenstein. After a failed attack, they send in a group of new prisoners. This franchise is really into recycling. It knows what it is. It does what it does. It's not trying to be more than an action B-movie. Things are blowing up. There is plenty of leather and trash. It does need more car crashes. It needs to be a constant demolition derby. There is a section in the middle with too little vehicle action and the final Death Race section is mostly out in the open. They need more buildings to drive thru. The franchise is basically in auto drive.

A surprisingly Great entry

[theromanempire-1 · 7/10 · 23 October 2018]

I was surprised by this movie. it was better than inferno and I did not expected that. this movie was so bad it was good. lots of violence...nudity....porno stars....action and blood u will carve for more. one of the best B-movies of this genre in terms of entertainment. It's supposed to be a sequel to the 2008 film but in reality it's a stand alone film. the guy the newcomer who challenged frank was great. if u like this stuff then this is for you.

So bad that it does not fit in the so bad its entertaining category.

[cruise01 · 2/10 · 9 October 2018]

Death Race Beyond Anarchy (1 out of 5 stars).

Death Race: Beyond Anarchy is beyond horrible and is the typical straight to dvd quality film. So far, none of the sequels/prequels could not live up to the entertaining action packed Jason Statham Death Race. The plot was tedious. It barely made much sense when there are too many holes in the story. Besides Connor (Zach McGowan) enters the maximum-security prison which looks like it is a quarantined city now. Were convicts can party, drink, have sex, and endless amounts of bloodshed violence. Connor is supposed to take down Frankenstein who is the death race champion. That sums up it about the plot.

The direction is horrible. The acting is stale. The writing is stupid and bad. The action is tedious. Were nothing new is shown. Connor goes into a fighting pit and fights to the death. And an overly long climatic race which is just repetitive and boring.

Overall, Death Race Beyond Anarchy is terrible. There is nothing good to say about it. It is what it is for a straight to dvd movie. Sure, someday there will be a sequel that will be just as bad. But for now, the Death Race movies has yet to improve since the 2008 film.

Spend an evening with pornstars, wrestlers, and large giant fireballs.

[juliankennedy23 · 8/10 · 10 October 2018]

Death Race 4: Beyond Anarchy: 8 out of 10: The fourth movie on the remake timeline which started with a rather poor Jason Statham vehicle in 2008. A secret agent goes to stop Frankenstein or something seems to be the plot.

The Good: You know if you are going to make a fourth sequel to a series that people stopped caring about twenty minutes into the first film there are a couple of things you can do. Making sure every frame has sex, violence or large orange fireballs in it is a surprisingly solid approach. This movie is not good but God help us it is entertaining. Everything is over the top from the violence, the music to the casting of porn stars and professional wrestlers.

Other sequels and remakes have successfully taken this tact from Piranha 3D to 2009's My Bloody Valentine remake. While one can miss the mark (Piranha 3DD for example) it is a solid approach. After just sitting through the deadly boring Escape Plan 2: Hades I appreciate Death Race 4's approach even more.

The Bad: You know the film could have been a little meaner. I mean it is a Death Race film. Have the "good guy" kill his girlfriend Keyser Söze style to show he can't be intimidated. That kind of thing.

The movie also has the unseen narrator/announcer thing that I find irritating in movies. You know the kind of silliness that shows up in an Adam Sandler sports film in case someone in the audience can't follow the action by simply looking at the screen.

The Ugly: Speaking of not being able to follow the action does anyone actually know what the plot was supposed to be? Is Frankenstein the good guy or the bad guy in this one? Is this still in a prison? Why are there congressional hearings? What the hell is going on?

In Conclusion: My complaint about the Statham remake was that is missed the point of the original. It had no cartoonish drivers, no casual nudity, it wasn't funny, and no one ran over pedestrians. This film fixes the first three of the four. While it still isn't a proper Death Race film (seriously even the topless starter girl isn't run over) There are worse ways to spend an evening than with pornstars, wrestlers, and large giant fireballs.

Proper Solid Entry

[liam_nb · 7/10 · 12 October 2019]

To begin with I have to talk about how little it continues from the others apart from lists and Danny Trejo who if someone told me did this movie for zero pay and just so he could be in scenes with naked women I would not be surprised it is quite amusing to see him do his thing. But this movie is seemingly separate from the others I say this because of Frankenstein either luke goss Frankenstein went absolutely made and became an evil murderer and got a different voice or it's another psychopath with a mask I wish it'd tell me but i can go without story a story which is paper thin for cool action and boy does this movie deliver. The action is well shot and put together I'll admit there isn't enough death racing for an almost 2 hr flick but it's pretty brutal and doesn't feel low budget. My favorite thing about this movie is the setting it feels like a mixture of Mad Max, Escape From New York, Borderlands, fallout 4 and a bit grindhouse, it has a great almost apocalyptic setting with proper good looking sets and vehicles unlike the other which didn't fully capture the dystopian vision much. So that's the good the action and cool setting now the bad obviously the plot is kinda pointless the acting is a bit better than luke goss era but it's still not good, the film really does oversexualize women like it thinks the only way to draw an audience is to have naked women in every scene it wastes quite a lot of scenes just for this purpose now if the female characters in this film were just maybe a little bit developed you could forgive it even fast and furious has women in it who are actual characters not just eye candy or damsels in distress with zero character I think there's one interesting woman in this movie who isn't oversexualized and she has very little dialogue or screen time but this is getting a bit preachy so let's get back to all the attrocious things about this movie the fact that it's like 20 mins too long and the terribly generic soundtrack they seem to fill a decent amount of the movie with metal which is a great choice but the rest of the soundtrack is so generic. As a final note id like to ask why there's rarely any bullet marks on the cars when there shot it's attention to detail that makes movies good. Donald Glover is great in this movie also. Total rank 7 just better than the last one must better than 2 much much better almost on par with 1 but that's got Jason statham in it so it gets a wee few bonus stars.

At least better than the previous movie...

[paul_haakonsen · 5/10 · 25 December 2018]

While "Death Race: Beyond Anarchy" is no masterpiece in cinematic history, it is actually one of the more enjoyable and entertaining of the "Death Race" movies. But keep in mind that that is not in itself any particular great feat accomplished.

The storyline in this 4th movie in the franchise is basically the same as every other movie. There is a Death Race to be participated in - and won by the protagonist, of course - just like every other movie in the franchise. So on that account, there is very little variation.

There is variation in the cast, the vehicles, the track and the spectators though. I will say that some of the vehicles in the movie were actually quite cool, and definitely had that "Carmageddon" feel to it, which was the reason why I started watching these movies in the first place, so it is enjoyable that they continued on with this streak.

As for the characters in the movie. Well, let's just say that they tried, with some of the characters at least. They tried to give at least the main character a background story, albeit a very simplistic and essentially a non-important one. While all other drivers, like in the other movies, were just drivers with different vehicles, different names and different appearances.

There is a fair amount of racing in the movie, and they managed to pull it off quite nicely. Because it does feel like it is high-speed and full of adrenaline, which added tremendously to the overall enjoyment of the movie.

However, it is the simplicity of the storyline and the characters that keep the movie in the gutter of mediocrity. My rating of "Death Race: Beyond Anarchy" is a flat and mediocre 5 out of 10 stars.

Death Race

[0U · 24 February 2020]

Didn't have much hope for this film as the story just felt silly and dull and most of the time it was, It felt like the director watched Mad Max on repeat before filming this, I like the other straight to dvd Death Race films but not so much this one, They added more nudity, Sex and Less Races, When the action does start it was pretty good with some brutal deaths and gory scenes, It wasn't greatly acted but they never have been, It didn't really fit into the series well and was more of a spin-off, If you enjoyed the others you might like it but it won't bring new fans to the table.

Enjoyable Sequel!

[amgee-89551 · 5/10 · 26 January 2020]

Much better sequel! It's definitely my 2nd favourite in the death race film series! 5/10

Much better than a 5!

[McCulloch-Eliza · 7/10 · 26 February 2020]

Really glad I found this one, I watched the first death race when I was a kid, (not the original from the 70s) and I loved that, and I e seen the second and third which I thought were average, there's plenty of nudity, blood and guts and mad Max style racing and fighting, definitely a lads night movie but there's something for everyone here, glad I took the time to look the series up, definitely have a watch with a few beers!

Death Race Beyond Anarchy

[Zombie-KISS · 3/10 · 14 March 2020]

Should go straight to dvd, the story line is subpar and the racing scenes really aren't that good. Definitely not even close to the original Death Race.. Only Danny Glover and Danny Trejo, stand out as recognized actors, everyone else, never seen them. This movie isn't great, but you could watch it, but rent it, don't buy it, worth a one watch, but the second time, will make you say "What"

Death race

[laura-olivieri · 7/10 · 30 June 2019]

Good movie, though not exciting. The racing scenes are in the last half hour, and first just tits, asses, and lesbian kisses.

Average sequel of Death Race

[saptesh786 · 5/10 · 18 January 2019]

Death Race 4 : Beyond Anarchy (2018) is a death race drama on next level. If you love death race concept then it is good for you. But as me it is far away from Jason Statham's Death Race (2008). It was best. Here Zach McGowan is looking perfect in fight but very dull in face expression. Rather than he has no expression in many times. Female characters are mostly for skin shows and stripping. Story is predictable and has nothing new apart from previous instalments. All over impact is not impressive. After seeing a lot of car sequences you found nothing thrilling! See only you are car movies lover otherwise do not think.

That's more like it

[TdSmth5 · 7/10 · 1 January 2019]

The giant jail were death race take place is run by Frankenstein this time around. The evil corporation has completely lost control of it. Baltimore Bob transmits the death races via the darkweb. But the races aren't just about racing and survival. The winner also gets to run the jail. Except that for the last 7 races the winner is always Frankenstein and that is hurting revenue now as there are fewer viewers. Bob needs a strong challenger. The corporation wants to shut down the death races altogether but when they send in their mercenaries they end up literally butchered by Frankenstein's army. You see, the have weapons, girls, live concerts, a bar, and everything else in this "jail." Danny Trejo is in Mexico betting on this whole operation.

The corporation decides to send a black-ops guy pretending to be a convict to kill Frankenstein. The guy arrives and has the guts to challenge Frankenstein a couple of times from the get go and hooks up with the pretty bartender and meets Bob who sees in him the challenger he needs. New guy Connor has to survive the death pit first where the winner gets to participate in death race. Why he deserves to be in the death pit who knows, but of course he beats his opponents, a little too easily. With that, Bob, List, Connor, and bartender set up their racing team to beat Frankenstein.

Problem is that before the race, Frankenstein lets everyone know about Connor's identity and intentions which puts a strain on the relationships among Bob's team but it's not enough to split them altogether. Now the race is on and there are a couple of surprises.

Death Race: Beyond Anarchy is the Death Race you want. Well-done, violent, gory, with good metal music, and with nice nudity. The problem here is that Frankenstein is the (likeable) villain, even though he's the who keeps the jail from falling into anarchy. Of course the race itself allows for anarchy. The movie is a bit too long, focuses too much on the new uncharismatic lead, too little on Frankenstein and nearly nothing at all on the other contenders of death race. The race itself could have used more attention and mayhem. Given the running time the crew should have used the time more wisely to give us more action, more violence, more nudity and perhaps less attempts at drama, which don't work because of the poorly cast lead. Otherwise, Death Race: Beyond Anarchy is a strong improvement in the franchise and hopefully will set the tone for future entries.

Too excessive

[Leofwine_draca · 4/10 · 19 December 2019]

BEYOND ANARCHY is the fourth instalment of the DEATH RACE franchise and now bereft of any stars from the original, although Danny Trejo - who was in a previous one - has a small, "name", tacked on role. This time around the brooding hero is none other than Zach McGowan, who was excellent as Charles Vane in BLACK SAILS. He enters a walled wasteland to compete in an illegal tournament designed to rid the world of the evil masked Frankenstein. As per usual, it's a combination of extreme violence with the usual racing tropes and mayhem, shot deliriously and at speed. There's plenty of action and plenty of sleaze too, with random sex scenes and endless nudity as well as gory moments that go way over the top (including a literal chainsaw massacre). Danny Glover shows up in the old-timer role, perhaps inevitably. I found this one a little too excessive to be much fun, but perhaps I'm getting tamer in my old age.

Death Race is back!

[philipmyarse · 9/10 · 12 October 2018]

Loads of fun. Harkens back to the original Death Race, with a generous amount of violence and nudity. This movie is an absolute blast and it's great seeing Danny Glover back stealing scenes. If you're an action junkie, this will give you just the fix you're looking for.

A fun but by-the-books direct-to-video sequel

[garciarichard · 6/10 · 23 January 2019]

Death Race: Beyond Anarchy is not a bad film by any stretch, but it lacks the schlocky, insipid charm that made it's predecessors entertaining. The story is also lacking, since there are no real stakes for the protagonist to overcome other than winning the Death Race against the resident Frankenstein, who is not intimidating as a main villain.

Where Beyond Anarchy excels is in it's stunt cinematography, and the racing is no longer confined to a remote prison location, this time taking place out in the open, like in Roger Corman's original Death Race 2000. The look and feel of the film also has something of an anarchic, Mad Max vibe to it, although it wears it's influences on it's sleeves.

With that said, Death Race: Beyond Anarchy got very little exposure, even for a direct-to-video film. But it's cheap entertainment that will keep you relaxed and glued to your screen throughout it's two-hour runtime.

Not good...

[Thanos_Alfie · 3/10 · 14 December 2021]

"Death Race: Beyond Anarchy" is an Action - Sci-Fi movie and the fourth movie of the "Death Race" franchise, in which we watch Frankenstein being the ruler of a prison-city where all inmates were left there by U. S. government.

I did not like this movie and I believe that I lost my time watching it. It did not have a serious plot, something that created plot holes that were not covered and there was not any conclusion. The direction which was made by Don Michael Paul was below average and he did not succeed on creating the atmosphere that most of the previous "Death Race" movies had. Despite that, there were plenty of action scenes filled with violence and blood. Lastly, I have to say that "Death Race: Beyond Anarchy" is a below the average action movie and I do not recommend you to watch it.