Death Race: Beyond Anarchy (2018) poster
2018 · action · thriller · sci-fi

Death Race: Beyond Anarchy

Directed by Don Michael Paul1h 51m2018
ElsewhereIMDb5.24k
  • sombre
  • kinetic
  • extreme
  • cold
Movie DNA

Sombre, breathless, extreme action / thriller, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Black Ops specialist Connor Gibson infiltrates a maximum security prison to take down legendary driver Frankenstein in a violent and brutal car race.

Our read · Death Race: Beyond Anarchy (2018) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive action · thriller · sci-fi entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want brutal vehicle combat and prison anarchy thrills.

ends unsettlingit leaves you shakengrabs you earlygrips by minute 6attention 3/5earns its length
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upnudityexplicit sexgraphic violencegore

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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