This is a hysterical, fun, and awful movie. It chronicles the fate of the earth in the year 2000, 20 years after the fall of society, and the rebuild which organized the US as a dictatorship under the President for Life. America’s chief means of appeasing the crowd is a bread and circuses event known as the “Transcontinental Road Race”.
This is, as it implies, a rally race across the continental U.S. The 5 combatants are all larger than life characters with themes that govern how they act, and the jokes they tell. Also, the navigator is always of the opposite gender so that the navigator and driver can have sex. Which only makes sense, right?
The two principle drivers who’s rivalry is the greatest are “Machine Gun” Joe (Sylvester Stallone, Rocky) who drives a modded mustang with two machine guns and a bowie knife mounted to the hood. His archenemy and crowd favorite, who is sponsored by the government is Frankenstein (David Carradine, Kill Bill).
The thing that makes this ordinary sound race a death race is that the drivers are awarded points not only for order of finish, but for each successive kill they record by vehicular homicide. They get points for running people over. It’s simple as that.
There is of course a rebel organization that is fighting against the president, led by famed American Thomas Paine’s great granddaughter, Thomasina Paine. Can They triumph, or will the drivers wreak havoc? This is one of the most wretched movies ever, but for the shear horror, and the fact that joking about getting points for hitting pedestrians originated here, it’s the only 1 worth watching.
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