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Summary: A failure of "Battlefield Earth" proportions!
Review: I should say, "worse than Battlefield Earth proportions!" This whole movie makes you just sit there at the end and go, "why?" Everything about this convoluted, sarcastic, beefed up, badly edited tripe is confusing to watch, poorly executed and loses you 10 minutes into the film. You are introduced to boring characters, cliched camera angles and material we all know John Mcteirnan is far more capable of. I was thankful I got to rent this instead of buying it because quite frankly this movie just plain stinks! If you really want to see the real "Rollerball" rent (don't buy) the original. The original has a much stronger story and for cryin out loud-James Caan! He's a legend man!! I don't know what kind of future Chris Klein has in movies but as far as action movies go, let's just put it this way, we already have Keanu Reeves and quite bluntly, he's a much better actor. Steer clear and save your money!
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Summary: Waste of celluloid
Review: It takes a lot for me to not like a movie, and Rollerball managed to pull it off.
I can't decide where it went wrong, or if it just was never right. The whole motorcycle chase thing to the border was unnecessary and seemed wedged into the movie; kinda unnatural. And the fact that the whole sequence was filmed in nightvision was just plain weird. I don't know what gave them that idea. The brief nudity seemed to come out of nowhere and added little to the plot. I had to rewind it to try and understand why on Earth it suddenly happened. The action sequences were ok, but considering what the plot was, it seemed overly dramatic. I work at Blockbuster, and this is one of the few movies that I tell people not to even bother with.
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Summary: R?
Review: What the heck? This movie is rated R! The theatrical version was rated PG-13! Now I'm not allowed to get or see this movie, which was only mediocre to begin with. Great job!
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Summary: Rollercrap!
Review: How could so many things go so wrong?!There are so many things wrong with this movie I don't know where to start!
Chris Klein is sorely miscast as the lead. The rollerball game itself has been turned from it's original rollerderby/football hybrid into a jumbled mess.
John McTiernan should have had his name removed from this film and replaced with Alan Smithee.
Hard to believe this came from the director of PREDATOR, DIE HARD, and THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER, three superlative action films.
I don't feel like going into too much detail, because just thinking back on this movie is painful for me.
Periodically, you'll see a movie that has had too many "creative hands" in it. Plot lines and other elements were changed or created to please focus groups, principle photography began before a script was completed, or the whole project was initiated simply because the studio was SURE it had a built-in audience.
Film students learn on day one of Filmmaking 101 that even if you have all the right ingredients, that alone isn't enough to make a good movie. There also has to be respect for the source material, good acting and directing, and cooperation between the director, the producers, and the studio. With ROLLERBALL, everything seemed to go wrong. EVERYTHING! Rollerturkey!
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Summary: THE WORST MOVIE I HAVE EVER! SEEN
Review: I saw this movie in theaters with a friend and my brother. I was expecting a exciting movie but it was exactly NOT that! The movie doesn't make sense and there really isn't a plot. Don't waste your time or your money on this movie!
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Summary: Off beat excellence!
Review: I did not think I would like this movie, but was pleasantly surprised. Fast paced, action filled and very entertaining.
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Summary: The Worst Movie Ever!
Review: This is by far the worst movie I have ever seen! The plot was impossible to follow, the action confusing and flashy, and the film editing awful. For example, there is one sequence in which a motorcycle crashes through a chain link fence and the sound effect boingongong is heard, like a spring snapping. Ridiculous! Concept - Terrible, Acting - Worse, Execution - Rollerball looks like it was made in 2 weeks using 2 computers that didnt work. I reccommend that you see this movie, just so you can tell your friends you've seen the worst movie ever made!
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Summary: Umm, I don't know what they were trying to do
Review: This movie is just plain sad. In addition to mediocre acting, the special effects were just as bad. In one scene you could plainly see the safety wire connected to the motorcycle. Bad diologue and senseless nudity made the film even worse. The plot drug and the resolution could have been solved a little sooner than it did. They came up with a lame chase scene with an airplane cruising on the ground after a motorcycle. Maybe that was a last ditch effort to make the movie a little bit more exciting. The only slightly interesting character was played by LL Cool J. His on camera presence is always rather captivating to me. It also carried him through a poorly written character. Since most of the movie took place on the track, there was more of the game than I could really put up with. Avoid it.
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Summary: Avoid at all cost !!
Review: Some movies are bad and worth watching 'cos they're bad, this one however is just a total stinker - no redeeming features whatsover. A total waste of time. Do not buy. Do not watch.
Rating:
Summary: Appallingly Bad
Review: Sports fans probably remember Fox Sports Net's series of commercials a year or two ago, advertising the new "Regional Sports Reports". These spots featured absurd imaginary sports being played in some dry and dusty location which looked vaguely Central Asian. The tag line was, "sports news from the only region you care about --- yours." This new version of Rollerball looks like it was taken from one of those FSN commercials. Gone is the SF storyline of the original story. Rather than set the story in the future, the film makers transposed it to Central Asia in the present day, post-Soviet world. The game vaguely resembles the original Rollerball, but is so hastily edited and poorly choreographed that nothing of what made the original game so compelling remains. It's just blow stuff up. Instead of drama, you get bashed in faces. In fact, although there's plenty of mindless action, there's actually less game footage than in the original... and less action. Jean Reno delivers a terrible performance as the capitalist mogul who is (gasp!) deliberately cranking up the violence in the game for (gasp!) higher ratings. With the wretched script he's given, he could hardly be expected to fill the shoes of the role played by John Houseman, the icy corporate chief of the original. As for Chris Klein... Granted, he doesn't have much of a script to work with, but I still found his performance annoying. I've seen him do better work ("Election") but he doesn't project the kind of screen presence James Caan did in the original. Curiously, although the script dispenses with the science fiction background, it does have men and women playing on the same team, and showering in co-ed locker rooms. I seriously doubt there is a culture anywhere on Earth today where men and women would participate in full contact sports together, let alone get undressed in the same locker room. There would have to be some very intense social upheaval to make that happen, particularly in Central Asia, which is a fairly conservative part of the world. If you thought "Replicant" was a great movie, then you might like this one; but frankly, folks, Chris Klein's performance makes Jean Claude van Damme look like Olivier. In fact even "Replicant" is mildly more interesting than this new "Rollerball". At least van Damme can do the splits.
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