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Rollerball (2002) [Blu-ray]

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  • Actors: Chris Klein, Jean Reno, LL Cool J, Rebecca Romijn, Naveen Andrews
  • Directors: John McTiernan
  • Writers: John Pogue, Larry Ferguson, William Harrison
  • Producers: John McTiernan, Beau St. Clair, Charles Roven, Michael Tadross
  • Format: Multiple Formats, Blu-ray, NTSC
  • Language: English (Dolby TrueHD), French (Dolby Digital 5.1), Spanish (Dolby Digital 5.0)
  • Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
  • Dubbed: French, Spanish
  • Region: Region A/1 (Read more about DVD/Blu-ray formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Rated:
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  • Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
  • DVD Release Date: January 4, 2011
  • Run Time: 98 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (142 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0049M7BDY
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #90,732 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
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Rollerball is a remake of a 1975 science fiction film of the same name that only succeeds in showing what the world would be like if the XFL had become the rage. With how many problems this movie had in production, it was a surprise to see it touch theatres.
Chris Klein, LL Cool J, and Rebecca Romijn-Stamos all phone in their roles as rollerbladers in a high stakes game that is televised worldwide. The cookie-cutter nemesis is played by Jean Reno as the owner and general manager of the tournaments. And with John McTiernan (director of Die Hard) at the helm, the whole thing is unexcusable. It looks like he is well past his prime.
In the original, the hard-core sport of Rollerball was a way for the ruling government of the world to show that individual effort was useless and futile, and only ended in death. In this unworthy remake, the ruling corporations are replaced by managers of the game with no other motive than to get higher ratings and greater profits.
This action disaster takes no hints from it's predecessor. The James Caan version was timeless, using classical music to keep the movie from being dated and holding the action with a very well-done sci-fi backstory. This is a movie filled with pop music that doesn't even fit the action and a barely-there plot that is filled with unnecessary car races and entirely unexciting action scenes.
The game consists of rolling around a figure eight track with the help of rollerblades and teammates on motorcycles, trying to beat the other team by throwing a steel ball into a large gong. Unlike the strategy and planning that went into the original's gameplay, this version looks like a circus. The action is filled with slapstick falls and dubbed-in lines with the actors not even openning their mouths.
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Most of the classic science-fiction, horror movies of the late sixties/mid-seventies were message movies: They were parables, allegorical yarns influencing us to confront the fallacies of our society.
"Silent Running", "Planet of The Apes", "Omega Man", "Soilent Green", "Night of The Living Dead", "Logan's Run"; each of these movies touched on the negative trends of contemporary society, be it racism, crass-consumerism, generational gaps, ecological suicide... In short, Man's inhumanity to Man.
The original "Rollerball" showed us the global corporate culture of the near future. It threw society's sick obsession with both sports and violence right at our faces. The bloodlust that was in the fictional future's rollerball audience was only slightly little different from the real life demands young white men were making at that time of the then emerging sport of Ice Hockey.
The age of the Nation-State was over and the multinational corporation, who was the new totalitarian aggroprop motivator, was now ascendent. We no longer had to worry about ideologues but PR men telling you what, when and where to buy. Control through the supply and demand for consumer goods and pastimes.
Humankind still had an aggression complex: a need for one man to hurt -and yes even kill!- his fellow man. How does the Multinational Global Corporations contain, yet satisfy, this bloodlust (and at the same time further stupify an already flabby, dumbed-down populace)? ROLLERBALL. All the fastpaced, adrenaline inducing, death and maiming and scarring of WAR, shrunken down and sealed up into a tiny arena, starting and ending at precise times.
Sad. Hateful.
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This remake of the classic science fiction movie is well made and modernized very well. This movie is action packed with slams, hits, and takedowns that would make a pro wrestler proud! Look for cameos from Shane McMahon and Paul Haman, the WWE/ECW legends.. LL Cool J(rapper) and Rebecca Stamos(X-Men) also star in this thriller. Rollerderby is sometimes rough and this is an actual "sport" that often gets VERY violent in real life. This movie is about that sport taken to a whole new level. In the near future, corporations have just as much power as the government. They hire people to compete in the violent sports they condone. Rollerderby is one of them. One young man is "recruited" and he becomes a fighting machine that attracts crowds, and money, everywhere! He learns that the higher ups are paying off athletes to cheat and hurt people to get ratings. Now he must "fight the power" to shut down the illegal sport forever! Rated R for violence, language, and nudity. Enjoy!
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In this terrible remake of 1975 film, Jean Reno plays an "evil" owner and manager of violent sports (or entertainment if you like) called "Rollerball." Just like a cross between rollerskating and ice hockey, people all over the world are excited watching the thrilling games - well, he wants it that way. No enters Chris Klein's character that soon becomes a new hero of the circuit, but he realizes that some heinous plot is going on when one of his teammates got heavily injured by receiving a big iron ball in the face.

Well, that is the film's story, sort of. Actually, nothing really makes sense in those badly edited "game scenes" where players are seen hitting each other rollerskating, and motorcycles with howling engines stumbling on the rink (and one of the riders is beautiful Rebecca Romijn-Stamos from "X-Men" but you cannot recognize her ... again.) To be honest, I had no idea of what is going on and I'm afraid you won't either. Rules? Sorry, I thought there was an introductory part about them, but I stopped caring as the film got more and more incredible.

The original "Rollerball" a cult film by Norman Jewison, knew what it wanted by drawing the bleak vision of our near future and its actions are still refreshing and exciting to see. But this remake most unaccountably ignores the tone of the original's futuristic society and stays content just showing meaninglessly violent stunts. The film remains pointless throughout I thought as it has no drama not even a decent story and no character. The game scenes look terribly bland. In fact they look dull compared with what we can see on some cable TV programs.

To be fair, there are some good action scenes like opening skateboarding race or bike chasing in the midnight.
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