Q. Now that you have seen just how awful a "Death Race" movie can be, is there any chance that you might go back and retroactively give the original a higher rating than your zero stars condemnation? I know that the star ratings are essentially meaningless but as is, it suggests that the new one is better than the original and, good Lord, not even (name deleted) would say something that insane. Peter Sobczynski, eFilm critic.com, Chicago A. I wrote back to you, explaining that the lowest rating a movie can receive for being bad is one-half star. To receive no stars, it must be, in my opinion, somehow immoral. In "Death Race 2000" (1975), cross-country racers received 100 points for every wheelchair they mowed down, 70 points for the aged, 50 points for kids, etc. I considered that immoral. But you, Peter, with your mastery of debate that I have come to admire over the years, responded: "I agree on your point. However, I would argue that the obviously satirical nature of the material and the subtext commentary about the increasingly debased and violent nature of popular entertainment elevates 'Death Race' from being completely immoral. By not having any of that subtext, I would argue that the new one is far more immoral than the original in addition to all of its other artistic sins. Additionally, while the notion of extra points for running over people in wheelchairs is a nasty one indeed, the punch line of the scene is that Frankenstein avoids hitting the old people when he comes across them and instead mows down the people who deliberately wheeled them out in the street to die." Quite true. Now I can only fall back on my long-standing decision not to revise past reviews, because I think they should remain as I wrote them, and because with more than 8,000 reviews on the Web site that would commence a never-ending task.