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	Rollerball (2002): Reviews
		Rollerball was trash even back in 1975, but in some small way it was ahead of its time.
		As in the comparatively quaint original film, there are whiffs of greed, carnage, social upheaval and the triumph of the numskull, but it's all rendered noxious nonsense by zooming hot rods, vague T&A, irritating jump-cuts and a bunch of dipshit Power Ranger wannabes slamming in hell's moshpit.
		Rollerball pushes the Hollywood action movie to stratospheric new levels of incoherence; pounding at the senses, it's mashed story, character, time and space into a chunky hash.
	www.metacritic.com /video/titles/rollerball (992 words)

	Rollerball - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rollerball pen, a type of Ball-point pen and ink
		Rollerball was also the name of several works:
		Rollerball (1975 film), a 1975 science fiction film
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rollerball (109 words)

	ROLLERBALL (2002) - SPECIAL EDITION DVD
		What it didn't have was the confidence of MGM, who pushed the release of the film into the doldrums of the new year and presided over the cutting of the only two possible reasons (the nudity and the gore) that anyone would have for seeing the film in the first place.
		Structurally, the film (like its predecessor, oddly enough) is just an excuse to string together a lot of ridiculous action with stunningly dull exposition.
		To that end, rollerball is what it might look like if Vince McMahon were to direct "Starlight Express" (with all the stage blood, testosterone, and suck such a union implies).
	filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/rollerball02.htm (961 words)

	Reel Criticism - Rollerball (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		The original “Rollerball” from 1975 is an all-time classic, a thought-provoking movie with a powerful message that also happens to be highlighted by some of the best sporting sequences ever put to film.
		This 2002 remake of “Rollerball”, on the other hand, is an incredibly disappointing train wreck where the sporting sequences are almost impossible to get into and the message has been watered and dumbed down to the point of shooting itself in the foot with its obviousness.
		Even story-oriented suspense is out of the question, because unlike the original “Rollerball”, which challenged the audience to think about what it had to say and made the viewer discover the film’s overall message for him or herself, this flick takes every opportunity to spell it all out right from the get-go.
	www.reelcriticism.com /reviews/review_rollerball.html (1450 words)

	Rollerball (2002 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rollerball was a 2002 remake of the 1975 science fiction film also titled Rollerball.
		This updated 'remake' of the film was directed by John McTiernan and has a much greater concentration on action and more muted social and political overtones.
		World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) personality Paul Heyman stars as an announcer and Shane McMahon, son of WWE owner Vince McMahon, can be seen in one scene.There is a concert scene in which the alternative metal band Slipknot plays the song "I Am Hated" from their album Iowa.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rollerball_(2002_film) (203 words)

	The Film Asylum - Rollerball film review
		Rollerball takes place in the not too distant future, and the future is fierce.
		This film is much less entertaining than the original Norman Jewison directed version and does in fact play out as a messy, mixed up affair with little in the way of new material and questionable production savvy.
		As a film that's central focus is supposed to be it's sporting action you would have thought that each Rollerball clash would have been the highlight of the film in the same way that the boxing was in Rocky or the car racing was in Days of Thunder.
	thefilmasylum.com /reviews/rollerball/rollerball.htm (903 words)

	Rollerball 2002 DVD film movie trailer review at The Z Review
		Rollerball 2002 In centuries past, people would flock to violent spectator sports to watch contestants stage bloody battles to appease the bloodlust of the public.
		In the 1970's the threat of technology and large corporations was the inspiration behind many cautionary tales from "Westworld" to "Rollerball" where the reliance on technology, and the loss of individual control were the main themes.
		The film was edited to get a PG-13 rather than an R rating, but I doubt that the inclusion of nudity and violence would have been enough to save this dud.
	www.thezreview.co.uk /dvdreviews/r/dvdrollerball2002.htm (870 words)

	2002 in film - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Please note that following the tradition of the English language film industry, these are the top grossing films that were first released in the United States and Canada in 2002; because they may have made most of their income in a later year, they may not be the top-grossing films for calendar year.
		The top ten films of 2002 as of January 23, 2006 (U.S. and Canada), January 15, 2006 (UK) and January 15, 2006 (Australia) are as follows:
		In the film industry, a wide-release movie is a film that studios believe will appeal to a broad spectrum of the public and that shows in at least 600 theatres in the United States and Canada.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/2002_in_film (539 words)

	TheMovieBoy Review: Rollerball (2002)
		From the opening scene to the last, the film is a 99-minute music video where hard rock and heavy metal unrelentingly blast on the soundtrack, drowning out some of the dialogue exchanges (when you're lucky) and without a care in the world for the actual plot.
		The three key Rollerball sequences admittedly have the potential to be alluring and entertaining in a trashy way, but in molding the final film into a PG-13 rating, they are so haphazardly edited that it is but a jumble of images that don't seem to add up into a whole.
		The screenplay for "Rollerball," by Larry Ferguson and John Pogue, is such a sloppy one (with some real dialogue howlers) that the studio exec who bought it must have been under a heavy dosage of hallucinogens.
	themovieboy.com /reviews/r/02_rollerball.htm (768 words)

	Rollerball (2002) - Ninth Symphony Films Review
		As it sat on a shelf for almost two years, the actors in Rollerball must have wondered whether or not their film would be released before the events in the movie are supposed to take place.
		Rollerball is filled with unbelievable sequences of bad acting, bad scripting, and hilarious roller blading with a few motorcycles thrown in for good measure.
		Sometimes when a film is released, and it is better than average, people say that "the right people came together at the right time." But for Rollerball, it is evident that the wrong filmmakers got together with the wrong actors at the most inopportune time.
	regencylady.tripod.com /site/filmreviews/rollerball.html (796 words)

	Rollerball (2002)
		There is an ubiquitous blood-pumping opening scene of a couple of racers zipping down the hills and through the streets of San Francisco on their backs, on what seem to be fancy skateboards (or maybe these guys are just off-season Olympians practicing the luge).
		Rollerball seems to be a combo of hockey, basketball, motorcycle racing, and beating the crap out of each other.
		By my calculations, the film lost a rating slice about every 20 minutes that it careened along (lucky for the film it only clocks in at about an hour and a half).
	www.moviepie.com /rent/rollerball_2002.htm (490 words)

	Rollerball (2002)
		It eventually emerged in February 2002, when it received dismal reviews and made a paltry $18 million at the box office; with a budget of $70 million, that was horrible.
		Rollerball appears in both an aspect ratio of approximately 2.35:1 and in a fullscreen version on this double-sided DVD-14; the widescreen image has been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
		Both films looked at the effects of violence on society, but while Orange did this with depth and wit, Rollerball just flailed away with no sense of any substance.
	www.dvdmg.com /rollerball.shtml (2204 words)

	ROLLERBALL (2002) - SPECIAL EDITION DVD
		What it didn't have was the confidence of MGM, who pushed the release of the film into the doldrums of the new year and presided over the cutting of the only two possible reasons (the nudity and the gore) that anyone would have for seeing the film in the first place.
		MGM's Special Edition of Rollerball 2002 contains clean--superior, even--2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen and pan-and-scan transfers on the flipsides of a DVD-14, both of which feature a 5.1 Dolby Digital mix that immerses the viewer in arena ambience, though the most thunderous usage of the LFE channel occurs outside of the rink.
		J.M. Kenny's repetitive "Future Sport: The Stunts of Rollerball" (21 mins.) nonetheless dispels the assumption that a lot of the stunts were manufactured in-computer and incorporates some astonishing outtake footage of the X-Gamer extras horsing around between camera set-ups.
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/rollerball02.htm (961 words)

	Rollerball (2002) - A Review by David Nusair
		Shortly afterwards, the film was pulled from its June slot and rescheduled for this month - edited down from its R rating and into a more teen-accessible PG-13.
		Rollerball is a sport that mixes motorcycle racing, inline skating, and rugby to often deadly results.
		Rollerball isn't a great film by any means, but for fast-paced thrills and larger-than-life stunts the movie delivers.
	www.reelfilm.com /roller2.htm (435 words)

	EI > Reviews > Rollerball (2002)
		Rollerball was originally made in 1975, and why they made it again in 2002 is as much of a mystery to me as the rules of the fictional game of rollerball.
		The rollerball league is run by Alexia Petrovich (Jean Reno, Just Visiting), and he and other big-shot businessman realize that the best way to get television ratings is to make sure a player or two gets severely injured, or even killed, in every match.
		A whole new sport is created and the best player suddenly fears for his life when he discovers his death will make millions for the investors, but the rules of the competition are only vaguely explained, making the crucial action of the game utterly confusing and the attempted statement about society and greed completely frivolous.
	www.einsiders.com /reviews/archives/rollerball.php (670 words)

	Rollerball (2002)
		The rollerball of the title is a violent game played on a multi-level and/or banked track and seems to be an extreme version of roller derby.
		Since the film was re-edited from an R rating to a PG-13, it's hard to place all the blame, but even in scenes that don't seem to have been altered, the direction is flat, at best.
		Of the ten released films that he has directed, I consider two to be good: The Hunt For Red October and The Thomas Crown Affair; two excellent: Die Hard and Die Hard: With a Vengeance; while Medicine Man and The 13th Warrior are both weak and unsuccessful.
	www.filmmonthly.com /Video/Articles/Rollerball/Rollerball.html (554 words)

	André PREVIN/various classical composers: Rollerball: Film Music on the Web CD Reviews August 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Rollerball was made in 1974-5 towards the end of the cycle of serious SF films launched by 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and before Star Wars (1977) redirected the genre to retro-action adventure.
		His three cues comprise two "source" tracks for the "Executive Party" scene, and despite the film being set sometime in the not too distant future the cues are locked completely in their decade, being solid examples of jazz-funk-rock.
		Specially recorded for the film, as were all the pieces on this disc, we are presented only with the stirring first three minutes and the music is not reprised at the conclusion of the album.
	www.musicweb.uk.net /film/2002/Aug02/Rollerball.html (500 words)

	Top Box Office Movies - Rollerball (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Rollerball is at best a hybrid of social commentary sprinkled with some of the worst acting, scripting, directing seen on the silver screen in a long time.
		The film commences with its’ hard rock and fervent editing in hopes of imparting upon the audience the dizzying effect this film wants to emit.
		I can respect the fact that the film is not as visually a debacle as it could have been, nor is it as bad as I thought it would be –but it still is a bad film.
	www.theworldjournal.com /special/movies/2002/rollerball.htm (552 words)

	Rollerball - a Movie Review of The Phantom Tollbooth
		He chose to do the action-science fiction film Rollerball about a future where disputes are settled and audiences are given something to think about besides their mundane lives through a highly stylized game.
		Rollerball is a combination of motorcycle racing, line skating and roller-skating.
		Rollerball didn't do that well at the box office, but the film had its followers, this critic included.
	www.tollbooth.org /2002/movies/rollerball.html (507 words)

	Rollerball (2002) DVD Review
		Not only is it hard to follow the action in the rink, but the plot of the film is choppy and the editing is frightful.
		The film never holds one shot for more than about a second and the result of that is unfathomable.
		It’s tough to take a film like this seriously when the message is delivered in a poorly made fashion.
	www.moviefreak.com /dvd/r/rollerball.htm (512 words)

	Rollerball (2002)
		Almost since the beginning of film as a media there has been those movies that were remakes of originals.
		This class of film ranges from shot by shot remakes such as Gus Van Sant’s Psycho to the latest trend of ‘reimagined’ films such as ‘Planet of the Apes’ the film under consideration here.
		Rollerball is a brutal sport that has become popular throughout the world, which is played in central Asia.
	www.hometheaterinfo.com /rollerba1.htm (1059 words)

	The Film Pie Reviews - Rollerball
		This film was to be released six months ago but disgraceful test screenings sent the producers back to the studio for a slicing and dicing session.
		To come out and say the film was believably great would have required a performance surpassing that he gave in the film.
		Critics are confident this film will be the worst of the year but I’m not prepared to go as far as it does have redeeming qualities.
	www.thefilmpie.com /Reviews2002/zz-rollerball.html (437 words)

	BBC - Films - review - Rollerball
		Crass and utterly incomprehensible, this new "Rollerball" does away with the original's political backdrop, turns the volume up to 11, and makes like it was written and directed by a middle-aged version of Beavis and Butt-head.
		Klein's Jonathan Cross is a skateboarder who joins the rollerball circuit in Central Asia and gradually finds himself at odds with the league's money-hungry owner (Reno).
		See what films are opening in the UK next year.
	www.bbc.co.uk /films/2002/06/11/rollerball_2002_review.shtml (388 words)

	MISFITS - Tim Wick - Rollerball Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		I knew the film had been pulled from a summer 2001 release date to a February 2002 release date - a sure indication the studio had no confidence in the project.
		Rollerball tells a story that was told far better (in a relative sense) in The Running Man.
		The film begins with Chris Klein, who has rocketed to fame on the strength of American Pie and American Pie II engaging in a street luge race down the hills of San Francisco.
	www.misfit.org /views/2002/02/twick20020211b.htm (1304 words)

	Scifilm -- Reviews, ROLLERBALL (2002)
		As for ROLLERBALL (2002), it is ultimately just another attempt to milk the teenage audience cash cow, who (according to the marketing execs anyway) want loud Nu-Metal, extreme sports, and video game action.
		All is not well with Rollerball, however, as the corrupt team owner Alexis Petrovich (Jean Reno) and his evil cohorts are sabotaging the sport in an attempt to raise ratings so that he can secure a lucrative American cable deal.
		But ultimately, while the original ROLLERBALL will retain its cult classic status for many years to come for both its intelligence and audacity, the lackluster remake will quickly fade and be forgotten.
	www.scifilm.org /reviews3/rollerball02.html (2660 words)

	Cinema Confidential Review: Rollerball (2002)
		Watching the original film before seeing this remake is essential because the old version plays like Cliff Notes in order to follow the action.
		In the original film, the game of rollerball was a fusion of hockey, football and motocross with gladiator brutality.
		The film was pushed from an August release so the filmmakers could work on its problems.
	www.cinecon.com /reviews/rollerball.shtml (701 words)

	Amazon.com: Rollerball: DVD: Chris Klein,Ll Cool J (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		This film single handedly goes down in the record books as not just the worst remake to come out of Hollywood, but it is also a double threat, with it being in the top 100 of worst films ever conceived.
		The 1975 film version was extremely science fiction with its views on the future of our world, the surrounding environment, as well as subtly placed usage of the laser gun.
		Yet somehow, this 2002 version is able to call itself a "science fiction" merely on the premise that it takes place three years in the future.
	www.amazon.com /Rollerball-Chris-Klein/dp/B00003CXTD (2895 words)

	Rollerball (2002) Movie Review - The Hollywood News
		The main gist of the film involves corrupt team-owners, with an agenda that includes having these athletes killed to improve the sports popularity.
		True, the original Rollerball was no classic, but it did have some witty, satirical moments and succeeded because of a good performance from James Caan.
		Rollerball is one of the worst movies ever made.
	www.thehollywoodnews.com /reviews/archive/2002/rollerball.php (504 words)

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