Rollerball (2002)
4 %
Reviews Counted: 108 Fresh: 4 Rotten:104 Average Rating: 2.5/10
Consensus:
Removing the social critique of the original, this updated version of Rollerball is violent, confusing, and choppy. Klein makes for a bland hero.
Runtime: 1 hr 39 mins
Theatrical Release: Feb 8, 2002 Wide
Box Office: $18,894,427
Synopsis: It's the year 2005; the new sport of Rollerball is hugely popular in the unstable, ex-Soviet republics of South Asia. Marcus Ridley (LL Cool J) invites NHL-hopeful Jonathan Cross (Chris Klein) to join him playing for the Zhambel Horsemen, in Kazahkstan. The highly paid Marcus and Jonathon... [More]
Genre: Action/Adventure
Starring: Chris Klein, LL Cool J, Jean Reno, Rebecca Romijn-Stamos, Naveen
Director: John McTiernan
Screenwriter: John Pogue, Larry Ferguson
Producer: Charles Roven, Beau St. Clair, John McTiernan
Composer: Eric Serra
Screenwriter: John Pogue, Larry Ferguson
Producer: Charles Roven, Beau St. Clair, John McTiernan
Composer: Eric Serra
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Rollerball looks like a checklist shaped by a 15-year-old mallrat: thrashing metal track, skateboards, motorbikes, cracked heads and Rebecca Romijn-Stamos with her top off.
06/24/06
...tries to work in some high and mighty social commentary, and this is where it fails completely.
08/01/03
An own-goal fest that will have you asleep in your seat by half time.
04/08/03
Pushes the Hollywood action movie to stratospheric new levels of incoherence.
01/15/03
Despite delivering a sexy Rebecca Romijn-Stamos, this 5-mph trainwreck is a badly executed attempt at action that can't even be relied upon to deliver mindless and gratuitous violence.
01/13/03
Such a brain dead, jukebox of a movie, it should've been called Tron for Dummies.
12/08/02
A mix of velocity and idiocy, this ruinous remake lacks the brawn -- and the brains -- of the 1970s original.
11/07/02
There's nothing surprising about it, but aficionados of speed, quick cuts and high-tech mayhem will love John McTiernan's direction here. Oh, and there are way cool cars too.
10/21/02
A bad movie that could have been a lot better if it had been a little bit worse.
10/15/02
I'm a little unclear as to how [the players] score points, but it has something to do with slamming a golf ball into a waffle-iron.
08/27/02
An insultingly bad movie, and even the flashiest, most distracting sound and visual gimmicks cannot hide this fact.
08/18/02
The original wasn't a good movie but this remake makes it look like a masterpiece!
08/01/02
Such an incomprehensible mess that it feels less like bad cinema than like being stuck in a dark pit having a nightmare about bad cinema.
07/16/02
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