 However, during a review of "The Fast and the Furious" on "Ebert & Roeper and the Movies", Ebert named "Death Race 2000" as part of a "great tradition of summer drive-in movies" that embrace a "summer exploitation mentality in a clever way".While Ebert hinted that he did not find the film as awful decades later as he did in 1975, he made it plain he would not alter or disavow his original zero-stars rating for it either.The film has garnered critical acclaim over the years, having a score of 83% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 35 reviews, with an average rating of 6.65/10, deeming it "fresh".