Rollerball

Rating:
Summary: Great movie, if you have the mind of a 10 year-old
Review: The setting for this movie is not in the future!!!! It is current day, and takes place in a poor European country. The arena they skate in looks like a very cheap prop from American Gladiators. There is VERY LITTLE SPECIAL EFFECTS and no high tech equipment.

15 minuets of the movie is done with a night vision camera, so everything you see is either dark green or picth black.

Most of the action happens within the rollerball arena. There are only a few action sceens on the streets of the city.

Rating:
Summary: weak and pointless
Review: there was no need for this movie. While i like LL Cool J and liked him in this movie and Chris Klein (as Jonathon Kross) was pretty good, the rest was pretty mediocre. a story of the new sport of rollerball where our hero Jonathon, played by the previously mentioned Chris Klein, is resting his hopes that the NHL will call when he runs into Marcus Risley, played by LL Cool J.
Jonathon gets talked into going to the fast rising sport in Russia called rollerball and not only does he join but he becomes the top star and posterboy. to further boost ratings the league starts promoting violence. of course jonathon fights this and there in lies the point of contention.
i felt the editing fo the movie was choppy and most importantly they never really explained the rules of the game. i never knew anything about rollerball as a sport. it was the heart of the film (and the title) and yet they never gave it a minute to show the audience what it was all about.
part hockey, part lacrosse and part sci-fi fantasy future sport that had crowds to their feet on screen but managed to bore me. if this sport is so good, why not explain it. draw the vierwer in and make him love it. the writing was bland and the flow of the movie was anti climatic.
i see most other reviewers did not like it. how did anyone like this movie? believe the naysyers and seek greener pastures elsewhere.

Rating:
Summary: Golden Game
Review: I admit. I am weird. I admit it. I love this movie. I like the whole concept of the players in this game they all have nicknames and radical costumes that fit the players personalities. I was just drawn to it. The whole atmosphere seems amazing and as a sports fan it just clicked. So check it out if your into sports be it extreme or not. Why not round up your Monday night football crew and watch before the next game? Talk about a warm up~

Rating:
Summary: The pits
Review: A complete waste of film start to finish.
Don't waste your money.
If you must see it for yourself, rent it.
This movie didn't need a remake, the original starring James Caan was just fine.
One star is generous.

Rating:
Summary: Judging it from the PG-13 version
Review: Type casting the co-star of American Pie and the religious, clean cut rapper LL Cool J while throwing in the hardcore metal bands of Slipknot and Rob Zombie? Does this sound like an audience clash of interest to you? Maybe that's why it didn't do so well. People who liked American Pie (especially the girls) for the most part, don't like Slipknot and Rob Zombie- and the same goes ten-fold for LL Cool J. The PG-13 version is the only one I saw, and while I have read numerous reviews of it being incredibly violent I only have this to say: No. Yes it was violent, but in the end, it earned a PG-13 rating. Judging from what I saw there, I would bet that this version is a bit more graphic but not enough so to give it more than an extra star. Klein, the director, was responsible for films such as "Die Hard," which absolutely amazes me becaues the directing in this movie was awful. The camera clips and slows down in something that tries to be 'new' and 'cutting edge', but ends up being an eyesore.

Why the heck would I want to see the guy from American Pie and LL Cool J in what's (supposedly) a violent and gritty action film?

Your money is well spent else where.

Rating:
Summary: A Total Failure
Review: If you've seen the original Rollerball staring James Caan, then you'll probably want to give this remake a miss. It is no longer set in a future controlled by corporations, it is set in the near present which is pretty much like reality. The hero doesn't hold a candle to James Caan.

It does have plenty of action, if mindless action is to your taste. The rollerball arena is poorly designed which makes following the action difficult at times. The villiam is just another greedy businessman/crook with nothing to make him stand out from a 1000 other businessman/crooks in other movies.

My adive? Save your money and get a copy of the original Rollerball.

Rating:
Summary: GOOD drama, GREAT action!!!
Review: Very exciting with a healthy amount of drama. I'm not sure why this movie didn't do well. It has it's faults but so do many movies that others praise. My biggest complaint about this movie is it has several editing problems. Overall...It is a very entertaining action movie with a fantastic story line.

Rating:
Summary: NON-STOP ACTION...What's NOT to like about this movie?
Review: I'm not sure why this movie didn't do well. It has it's faults but so do many movies that others praise. My biggest complaint about this movie is it has several editing problems. Overall...It is a very entertaining action movie with a fantastic story line.

Rating:
Summary: One of the greatest movies
Review: This movie was great.I don't know why a lot of people say this movie really stunk.It's about Jonathon Cross who is waiting for his big break.When he runs into Marcus Ridley,Marcus talks to him about Rollerball.So Jonathon decides to go with Ridley.It starts off as a dangerous game,until it goes way out of hand.
They don't know who is behind this.In conclusion Rollerball is an excellent action packed movie.

Rating:
Summary: Better than Expected
Review: The original 1975 film provoked thought about society and how mankind chose comfort over free choice. This movie is more about the trouncing of participants in the roller derby sport I used to watch on 1970's television. So the only things in common between the two films are the name and the fact a ball rolls around a rink in a violent sport.

If one can disassociate the first film from this one, then this version can actually be fun. In a brief synopsis, the star rollerballer in a central asian ring discovers that the league ownership is manipulating television ratings by staging violent scenes on the rink. When he and a fellow American (played adequately by LL Cool J) decide to save their own necks by fleeing to the boarder, they are hunted down by the Russian thugs before they can make good their escape. The inclusion of a Dutch motorcyclist, played by Rebecca Romijn-Stamos, provided the movie with a love interest.

The final game is a bit unrealistic as the wounded star, played by Chris Klein who surprisingly looks like a junior Keanu Reeves, stays alive on the rink long enough to confront his opponents in the front office.

All in all, better than I expected, as long as I kept in mind it was not the same as the original.