drystyx This should have been a fun movie, but the directors took all of the fun out of it.It's just an action movie, and probably would've been better with horses, but motorcycles are somewhat more cinematic than other motor vehicles.Still, while it's people killing each other on motorcycles, it makes no sense. Very early, a bunch of guys kill off the gorgeous sexy girl (I guess they're gay, I don't know} and there's nothing for the guys to be interested in). Then there's a bunch of boredom after that. Like I said, nothing at all for the guys, and for women, only die hard biker babes could keep interested in this.So we have a movie that is supposed to be Action, which comes across as no fun for the male audience, and actually boring. I don't know if I'll put it on the ten worst movies ever list, because I think to make that kind of list, you have to have "great expectations", and there really isn't any great expectation for this.

Woodyanders Following the great Neutron wars, the world in the year 3000 has become divided between totalitarian city states and dangerous desert wastelands. Powerful and nomadic Zen warrior-like Ranger Guides Kaz Oshay (a very hairy David Carradine, who somehow manages to keep a straight face amid the abundant absurdity) and Deneer (a pleasingly feisty portrayal by ravishing 70's drive-in cinema goddess Claudia Jennings) are captured by the evil, deranged, and terminally ill Lord Zirpola (sullen David McLean) to participate in Zirpola's deadly gladiatorial combat game of Deathsport. Of course, Kaz and Deneer manage to escape. The wicked Ankar Moor (deliciously essayed with teeth-gnashing nasty brio by Richard Lynch) gives chase. Man, does this gloriously ghastly abomination possess all the right wrong stuff to qualify as an enjoyably atrocious stinkeroonie: hopelessly ham-fisted (mis)direction by Allan Arkush and Nicholas Niciphor (the latter also co-wrote the nonsensical script), loads of pretentious mystical mumbo jumbo about some silly sacred code of honor, cheesy (far from) special effects (the laughably lousy matte paintings are a truly sorry, yet sidesplitting sight to behold), an uproariously inappropriate wonky-spacey score by Andy Stein complete with annoying droning synthesizer and a little jazzy wailing saxophone (!), ineptly staged action scenes (the climactic swordfight between Kaz and Ankar is weirdly edited and hence totally fumbled, but at least it concludes with a gnarly decapitation), exaggerated and often ear-splitting "Road Runner" cartoon type sound effects, some seriously bad over-the-top acting (Will Walker in particular is just terrible as whiny wimp Marcus Karl), a band of cave-dwelling cannibal mutants played by a gaggle of poor extras in tattered rags who sport ping-pong ball eyes and cheap plastic dime-store fangs, plentiful garish and excessive explosions, and tin-eared dialogue (choice lame line: "Everything is within the self; nothing is outside"). As a much-appreciated added plus, we also got a satisfying smattering of tasty gratuitous distaff nudity courtesy of the always scrumptious Ms. Jennings and hot brunette former "Penthouse" Pet of the Month Valerie Rae Clark (Miss May '77) as a -- what else? -- nude dancer. (Ladies will be glad to know that Carradine spends a fair share of his screen time clad solely in a loincloth ala Charlton Heston in "Planet of the Apes.") Jesse Vint has a sizable part as Ankar's right-hand man Polna, familiar bald baddie H.B. Haggerty appears in one of his customary sneering heavy roles as a sadistic torture-happy jailer, and a baby-faced Linnea Quigley pops up in a quick uncredited bit as a courtesan. Ace cinematographer Gary Graver offers several striking visuals and makes cool occasional use of wipes. A wonderfully wretched riot!

Coventry "Deathsport" is one of those films that have been lying on my DVD-shelf unwatched since years already because, quite frankly, it always looked like a really stupid movie and I have to be in a rare and specific mood to enjoy really stupid movies. But right now I was in urgent need of a movie starring David Carradine and this was the only one within reach. Come to think of it, I ought to have selected a much better movie for my tribute to this terrific cult/action cinema legend that sadly passed away this week (3rd of June 2009). "Deathsport" is a prototypic Roger Corman product from the late 70's. Obviously cheap and rapidly put together in order to further cash in on the unexpected but giant success of the previous "Death Race 2000"; also starring Carradine and also set in a crazed futuristic setting. But apart from this handful of superficial elements (also including the similar title), there's actually no real connection between "Death Race" and "Deathsport". This is merely an attempt to imitate "Star Wars", with a lot of cheesy light-and-laser weaponry, and an unintentional predecessor to post-apocalyptic gladiator movies that became particularly popular during the 80's. In a very distant future, practically the entire world has been destroyed due to nuclear warfare. Only a few big cities are left, surrounded by endless wastelands where cannibalistic mutants are continuously on the prowl. Life inside the big city isn't that much better, though, as Lord Zirpola is slowly going bonkers through brain disease and becomes increasingly obsessed with "Deathsport". This is a Roman-type of arena battle and Zirpola ordered his right hand – the malignant Ankar Moor – to capture the mystically empowered Range Guides Kaz Oshay and Deneer to fight till the death. The Guides are good hearted nomads, however, and rather than to obey and fight, they flee into the wastelands. Okay, admittedly this sounds like a rather complex and ambitious plot, but I can assure you that "Deathsport" is actually a pretty brainless and rudimentary Sci-Fi vehicle. Everybody always complains about the low quality level of early 80's Italian apocalypse movies, but honestly flicks like "The New Gladiators", "The Atlantis Interceptors", "Endgame" and "The New Barbarians" are a whole lot better than this dud. "Deathsport" is boring and repetitive, with really laughable special effects (the vaporizing weapon looks like a vacuum cleaner) and pitiable scenery (the so-called Death Machines are ordinary bikes with a metal plant on the front). The only highlights in the film occur whenever Richard Lynch appears on screen, as he gives away a deliciously over-the-top cheesy performance as the evil and crazy-eyed Ankar Moor. Well okay, other highlights include Claudia Jennings' multiple nude sequences and the scene where a dude drives off of a tremendously high cliff in slow-motion. David Carradine is sadly mundane and uninspired in this lame production and this definitely isn't one of the movies he'll get remembered for. I can list at least two dozen of movies that I rather watched instead. Rest in peace, grasshopper. You were the total definition of cool and handsome.

toxicavenger792 I have to say that this movie was the most surprisingly good movie I have ever seen! (thats why I call it a sleeper hit) I bought this movie mainly because I loved Death Race 2000 so much. Now I want everyone to know it is not a sequel, it just happens to have Death in the title and star the wonderful David Carradine. I also liked how "Deathsport" solved the flaw of "Death race 2000" by saying that the movie takes place in a thousand years after tomorrow. I really thought with the bad rating and the more serious plot that it was going to suck balls big time. But then when I played it I was so shocked, that it actually was awesome. Notice I said "awesome" and not "good" because I even know that, yes, its a terrible movie. But it is also extremely entertaining. I have literally not seen so many explosions in a movie. The movie does have huge flaws and is done horribly, but its definitely a "its so bad, its good" type movie. Now it isn't so bad that its unwatchable (i.e. Plan 9), in fact I find it very watchable. I will say go into this movie prob with a friend who also likes s***ty b-movies because its hard to laugh at this movie by yourself. *Minor Spoilers* If you like movies with naked playmates, motorcycle explosions, some overkill, horses when shot disappear, awesome music by "Jerry Garcia", sci-fi cliques, anti-climatic deaths (including a too short duel), gladiator fights, cavemen, painted backgrounds, nomad groups a thousand years in the future, city-states, and a little girl in a guinea pig cage then this movie is for you!