Rollerball (DVD)

Rollerball (2002) *film only review On February 1st 2007, Rollerball was placed at number 99 on the IMDB’s bottom 100 films, with an average score of 2.6 out of 10, and 8,205 votes. That’s a very high number of votes for the bottom 100, strengthening its position there, and showing just how badly this film has been received. Set in the near future, a violent new sport from Central Asia has taken the world’s interest. Rollerball is like a cross between American football and basketball, on rollerblades, in a figure 8 circuit, and chuck in a couple of motorbikes for good measure. The rules are simple, and the fouls are frequent. Increasing ratings and ...  Read the complete review

~~~Rollerball~~~ Jonathon is the star of a violent, game of human pinball. Picked because of his love of extreme sports he is joined by old friend Marcus Ridley and a team of other adrenaline junkies. Thrust into the public eye as the star of the show he is enjoying the high life with fame and wealth. Which is guaranteed if he plays by the rules. Which is to win the game and make the owner lots of money with over the top dramatics and daring stunts. But when blood is shed the game hots up, and only the fittest will survive ... ~The cast: Chris Klein ~ Jonathon Cross LL Cool J ~ Marcus Ridley Rebecca Romijn ~ ...  Read the complete review

Go on ... think about it ... what was the most memorable thing about the recent Premiership match between Arsenal and Manchester United? It wasn't the dazzling goals (were there any?), or the decent football, or the chanting of the crowd ... no what got the blood bubbling, the adrenaline flowing and (definitely) the newspaper headlines was the bad tempered bickering and argy bargy between the players ... that's what we'll remember and also incidentally one of the main reasons why we tune in so regularly to see big football matches ... it's the knife edge of tension, the passionate tempers and the knowledge that at any meeting some of these highly paid ...  Read the complete review

Set in the future, (well, 3 years from now) we are meant to believe that there will be a mad game springing up in the Asian countries of the world called Rollerball. Well, that is what this remake of a cult 1970's film is leading you to believe. With the changing outlook of modern Earth, the makers of this remake have changed many of the backgrounds, senarios and situations while leaving the underlying story intact. If you have not seen the 1970's version, I highly recommend it. Better than the remake due to its 70's chique! Anyway, back to the new film. ********* DONT READ THE PLOT IF WANT TO SEE IT************** The story ...  Read the complete review

Rollerball is a movie I expected to hate from looking around at all its reviews. Comments ranged from it being absolutely absymal and unwatchable at worst, to looking like an MTV music video at best which to me doesn't exactly inspire any kind of confidence in it being any good - no doubt to most people. Bizarrely then, despite most of the negative comments I read actually being very true, I still found Rollerball to be rather entertaining - I guess it caught me in an excellent mood, or once again, this is one of those movies that its 'hip to hate' amongst the movie critic community, either way I personally found it to be rather fun. But in no way, ...  Read the complete review