Rollerball

Rollerball

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Rollerball

Chris Klein, Jean Reno, LL Cool J, Rebecca Romijn, Naveen Andrews

Sure to appeal to enthusiasts of extreme sports, this revamped Rollerball (a remake of Norman Jewison's 1975 original) transplants the violent hybrid of hockey, polo, and barroom brawling to the fragm...( read more  read more... )ented states of the former Soviet Union. Jonathan Cross (Chris Klein) is Rollerball's reigning superstar, and he's out to stop the game's Russian inventor (Jean Reno) from promoting excess violence and death to boost the game's global TV ratings; Rebecca Romijn-Stamos (as Klein's intimate Rollerball ally) provides a few moments of teasing titillation along the way. The anticorporate substance of the original has been subverted by shallow style, chaotic action, a sorely miscast lead, and a superfluous plot, while choppy editing prevents any grasp of the game's rules or kinetic momentum (surprising, since John McTiernan directed the impeccably crafted Die Hard). Providing a strong argument against remakes, this lifeless movie qualifies as a disaster of Battlefield Earth proportions. --Jeff Shannon

Id: 10897017

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  • December 20, 2009
    Film qui semble être à très petit budget, malgré l'apparition de star comme Pink ou encore Slipknot.

    Animation tv très mauvaise, dans certaine scène on peut voir qu'ils ont tentés de cacher certains tatoos dede LL Cool J, comme son tribal sur sont brasgauche, etc, etc...

    Un je...( read more)u qui pour moi, représente un peu ce qu'est la lutte ou la UFC aux États-Unis.

    P.S.: Je trouve tellement que ce mec (Chris Klein) ressemble à Keanu Reeves haha :P
  • March 30, 2009
    "Rollerball!!"

    This disgusting piece of cinema is a remake of a minor classic from the 70's. The original wasn't that good, pretty boring actually so why bother making a remake of it?

    The story is simple and stupid, the dialogue is awful and the acting is something that all of ...( read more)those who participated in the making of this movie should be ashamed of. Jean Reno was probably druged when he signed the contract...

    "Rollerball" is something that the MTV generation could probbaly like. Fast editing, loud music and women in leather. I like women in leather also but not in "Rollerball"!

    This film should be avoided by all and all of the copies that are available for you to watch should be burned and buried.

    Out.
  • April 29, 2008
    nonsece with i wouldn't even call them second rate actors lets go with 10th except for klein
  • August 13, 2007
    Based on the game maybe?
  • April 16, 2007
    One of the worst movies I have ever seen.
  • September 22, 2009
    A full star for Rebecca Romijn.
  • September 11, 2009
    Had some interesting parts. Paul Heyman can act. Shane McMahon can't. The scene shot with night vision is just painful and the whole concept that made the original Rollerball so good is changed for one that make's little sense and has been done before (Running Man!)
  • July 29, 2009
    I loved it. Awesome!
  • July 16, 2009
    i love this movie, becouse of the type of game they played in the movie
  • July 1, 2009
    It's bad, bad, bad.....

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