Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

Worst movie I've ever had the displeasure of watching. Reminds me of something they would show on Mystery Science Theater 3000. The effects are God awful, they look like they spent $5 to make this movie using a home video camera and a VHS tape, and the sound effects on Atari are better. I will never get the time back in my life that I wasted watching this. It was good for a laugh I suppose lol. Not sure why they even have this movie on Netflix, unless of course it is for entertainment purposes for people bored out of their skulls. I see many mistakes in filming, they most likely put the props together in someone's back yard shed, and the actors were probably homeless people picked up off the streets. Oh but there is full frontal nudity, so it was all worth it. I only wish they knew how to use razors in the 70's :/

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.

"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.

A followup flick to Deathrace 2000,Deathsport is a wild thrilling ride.Very much underrated,and a cult classic for sure.You like deadly laser blasting dirt bikes?Futuristic noble knights of the apocalypse?Crystal sword fights?And a host of bad-guys dying ever few minutes?And an insane dictator with sadistic sexual tastes?If you find you like this movie or Deathrace 2000,check out Circle of Iron,another lost Carradine seventies classic that was scripted by Bruce Lee and stars Mr Carradine in four different roles.This ain't no academy award winning stuff,so don't expect a lot from a low budget sci fi opus.Just enjoy it for what it is,and tell all your friends.