adyt23 Reviews

Death Race (2008)

Boring, tedious and totally predictable

[3/10 · 24 August 2008]

Went to see Deathrace today with my Thai girlfriend. I wasn't expecting much from the movie but I still found myself falling asleep around the hour mark. If ever I've seen a film which is a video game wannabe in disguise then Deathrace is it.

Without any worthwhile plot or 3 dimensional characters the car races and explosions very quickly become boring to watch.

Since my girlfriend doesn't speak English fluently and has to read the Thai subtitles she often enjoys American action movies because they are so easy to follow. She said she found Deathrace to be pointless and dull, that about sums up where this flick stands in the great scheme of things.

Good graphics alone don't make a good video game, and good stunts alone don't make a good movie.

Player 5150 (2008)

A stupefyingly bad movie

[1/10 · 22 August 2008]

Avoid this movie at all costs, everything about it is bad, especially the ending which is almost comical.

Here's a hint to American film makers who want to make a movie about the world of the gambler. Gambling is legal in many countries, in fact betting (bookie) shops were legalized in the UK in 1961 ! This means that to many audiences the whole notion of the penniless gambler running away from a bookie who wants to break his legs is just an archaic stereotype.

The gambling world should be a fountain of stories for movie makers to film. Instead we normally get the dumb and dumbered down type of nonsense that Player 5150 represents.