Rollerball

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Rollerball

PG-13

2002

1h 38m

Action

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Jonathan is the most popular player in the fastest and most extreme sport of all time: rollerball. Along with teammates Marcus and Aurora, Jonathan is giving viewers what they want: visceral thrills, breakneck speed, and head-slamming action. Things go wrong when rollerball's creator, Petrovich, realizes that serious on-court accidents bring higher ratings. Soon Jonathan and his friends are playing for their lives.

Critics Consensus

Removing the social critique of the original, this updated version of Rollerball is violent, confusing, and choppy. Klein makes for a bland hero.

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Joshua Rothkopf

In These Times

03/16/2020

Rollerball is an unbelievable bomb, but one of the most educational-revealing corporate desperation at its vulgar low.

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Keith Phipps

AV Club

03/26/2013

Only those attracted to Waterworld- or Last Action Hero-level big-budget disasters need bother with this one.

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David Germain

Associated Press

03/26/2013

Loud, crude and outlandish, Rollerball is a parody of itself, a frenzy of extreme-sports stunts masquerading as social commentary on violence and the corporate forces that feed off it.

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Eddie Harrison

film-authority.com

11/30/2023

1/5

…a stew of bare breasts, ear-piercing noise, muddy violence and incoherence…

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Film4

03/26/2013

A dire re-working of the provocative 1975 sci-fi satire.

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Felix Vasquez Jr.

Cinema Crazed

04/29/2009

This is a terrible big-budget fiasco with a go nowhere plot and terrible cast.

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Ray A

@icjacoach3 Jan 25

What an unnecessary remake. The original is outstanding, and this is crap.

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Enrique R

@EnriqueRamosLovesMovies Jan 19

Rollerball, what a joke. Jean Reno is like 45 years old in this movie and he thinking, he can do parkour with roller blades. LL Cool J only carried this film and OG LL Cool J had so much swag. But, this movie is weird, because this movie is directed by 50 year old John McTerinan, the man that made Predator and Robocop. This is easily his worst film. Overall, I will give Rollerball a 3/10 or a 2.3/5 stars.

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Carlos I

@carlosFibarra Jan 15

While the 2002 remake of Rollerball is widely considered a cinematic misfire, I have to admit I used to like this, despite its reputation; however, looking back, I think I was just the right demographic for the time, because boy oh boy is this corny! Between the aggressive nu-metal soundtrack, the incoherent "night vision" action sequences, and the bafflingly high-stakes editing, the film feels like a relic of a very specific turn-of-the-century aesthetic that hasn't aged particularly well. It’s certainly not great by any objective standard, but I still have some nostalgic fun with it.

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Robert C

@RT54644392 Dec 4

I liked the original from 1975, so I thought I would have a look at this 'remake'. It's got an interesting cast and John McTiernan directed 'Die Hard' so it can't be that bad can it? Yes it can..

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David W

@Sternhammer Aug 9

An insult to the superb original.

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Brian H

@RT25736836 Aug 9

The dystopian future is bleak. Jean Reno is wonderful, Rebecca Romjin is stunning. LL Cool J tries to save the movie with his personal brand of coolness.

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Synopsis

Jonathan is the most popular player in the fastest and most extreme sport of all time: rollerball. Along with teammates Marcus and Aurora, Jonathan is giving viewers what they want: visceral thrills, breakneck speed, and head-slamming action. Things go wrong when rollerball's creator, Petrovich, realizes that serious on-court accidents bring higher ratings. Soon Jonathan and his friends are playing for their lives.

Director: John McTiernan
Producer: Charles Roven, Beau St. Clair, John McTiernan
Screenwriter: Larry Ferguson, John Pogue, William Harrison, William Harrison
Distributor: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Production Co: Yorktown Productions, Atlas Entertainment, Toho-Towa, Mosaic Media Group, Helkon Media AG, Metro Goldwyn Mayer
Rating: PG-13 (Language|Extreme Sports Action|Sensuality|Some Drug References|Violence)
Genre: Action
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Feb 8, 2002, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 1, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $19.0M
Runtime: 1h 38m
Sound Mix: Dolby SR, DTS, Dolby Stereo, Surround, Dolby A, Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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