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NUMBERS
Box Office: $18,894,427
VHS Rentals: $4,680,000
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CONSENSUS
Removing the social critique of the original, this updated version of Rollerball is violent, confusing, and choppy. Klein makes for a bland hero.
CAST & CREW
Chris Klein, LL Cool J, Jean Reno
Directed by John McTiernan
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SYNOPSIS
It's the year 2005; the new sport of Rollerball is hugely popular in the unstable, ex-Soviet republics of South Asia. more...
MPAA RATING
PG-13, For Violence, Nudity, and Some Language
RUNTIME
1 hour, 39 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Feb 8, 2002
Video: Jun 18, 2002
RELEASE COMPANY
MGM/UA
GENRE
Action/Adventure, Futuristic, Sports, Remake
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official Rollerball Site
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PARENTS EVALUATION
POSTERS
TRAILER & MEDIA
PHOTOS
NEWS ARTICLES
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SUBMIT/EDIT ARTICLE
SUBMIT USER REVIEW
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 "It is messy, uncouth, incomprehensible, vicious and absurd."
-- The Wolf, IOFILM.CO.UK
"[T]his slop doesn't even have potential as a cult film, as it's too loud to shout insults at the screen."
-- Gregory Weinkauf, NEW TIMES
"It’s difficult to imagine that a more confused, less interesting and more sloppily made film could possibly come down the road in 2002."
-- Brian Webster, APOLLO GUIDE
"Such an incomprehensible mess that it feels less like bad cinema than like being stuck in a dark pit having a nightmare about bad cinema."
-- Ian Waldron-Mantgani, UK CRITIC
"They threw loads of money at an idea that should've been so much more even if it was only made for teenage boys and wrestling fans."
-- John Venable, SUPERCALA.COM
"The editing is chaotic, the photography grainy and badly focused, the writing unintentionally hilarious, the direction unfocused, the performances as wooden."
-- Lawrence Toppman, CHARLOTTE OBSERVER
"Rollerball IS as bad as you think, and worse than you can imagine."
-- Gary Thompson, PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS
"Disjointed, puerile and ugly-looking to boot...a visual, as
well as a narrative, wreck."
-- Frank Swietek, ONE GUY'S OPINION
"We've liked Klein's other work but Rollerball left us cold."
-- Chuck Schwartz, CRANKY CRITIC®
"Bad and baffling from the get-go."
-- Marc Savlov, AUSTIN CHRONICLE
"A mix of velocity and idiocy, this ruinous remake lacks the brawn -- and the brains -- of the 1970s original."
-- James Rocchi, NETFLIX
"Loud, silly, stupid and pointless."
-- Steve Rhodes, STEVE RHODES' INTERNET REVIEWS
"About as enjoyable, I would imagine, as searching for a quarter in a giant pile of elephant feces...positively dreadful."
-- Dustin Putman, THEMOVIEBOY.COM
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"This re-do is so dumb and so exploitative in its violence that, ironically, it becomes everything that the rather clumsy original was railing against."
-- Jeff Vice, DESERET NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY
"It's really just another silly Hollywood action film, one among a multitude of simple-minded, yahoo-ing death shows."
-- Joshua Vasquez, MATINEE MAGAZINE
"Problem is, we have no idea what in creation is going on."
-- Tor Thorsen, REEL.COM
"Laughably, irredeemably awful."
-- Jonathan Taylor, CITYSEARCH
"The original wasn’t a good movie but this remake makes it look like a masterpiece!"
-- Stefan Birgir Stefansson, SBS.IS
"Klein, charming in comedies like American Pie and dead-on in Election, delivers one of the saddest action hero performances ever witnessed."
-- Norm Schrager, FILMCRITIC.COM
"If it were any more of a turkey, it would gobble in Dolby Digital stereo. If nothing else, "Rollerball" 2002 may go down in cinema history as the only movie ever in which the rest of the cast was outshined by LL Cool J."
-- James Sanford, KALAMAZOO GAZETTE
"The rollerball sequences feel sanitised and stagey."
-- Olly Richards, EMPIRE MAGAZINE [UK]
"They should have called it Gutterball."
-- Mark Rahner, SEATTLE TIMES
"For its 100 minutes running time, you'll wait in vain for a movie to happen."
-- John J. Puccio, DVDTOWN.COM
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ROTTEN 8%
Avg. Rating: 3/10 |
"It's dull, spiritless, silly and monotonous: an ultra-loud blast of pointless mayhem, going nowhere fast."
-- Michael Wilmington, CHICAGO TRIBUNE
"Say this for the soundtrack, it drowns out the lousy dialogue."
-- Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE
"Derailed by bad writing and possibly also by some of that extensive post-production reworking to aim the film at young males in the throes of their first full flush of testosterone."
-- Kevin Thomas, LOS ANGELES TIMES
"John McTiernan's botched remake may be subtler than Norman Jewison's 1975 ultraviolent futuristic corporate-sports saga. It's also stupider."
-- Jeff Stark, SALON.COM
"With this new Rollerball, sense and sensibility have been overrun by what can only be characterized as robotic sentiment."
-- Gene Seymour, NEWSDAY
"...really horrible drek."
-- Richard Roeper, EBERT & ROEPER
"By the end, you just don't care whether that cold-hearted snake Petrovich (that would be Reno) gets his comeuppance. Just bring on the Battle Bots, please!"
-- Steven Rea, PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
 "For those with the stomach and stamina for its heartbeat-quickening intensity and body-slamming action, Rollerball delivers exactly what it promises: A people's hero you can really get behind."
-- Michael O'Sullivan, WASHINGTON POST
"McTiernan's remake may be lighter on its feet -- the sober-minded original was as graceful as a tap-dancing rhino -- but it is just as boring and as obvious."
-- Elvis Mitchell, NEW YORK TIMES
"A lot like the imaginary sport it projects onto the screen -- loud, violent and mindless."
-- Tom Maurstad, DALLAS MORNING NEWS
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"If you're a WWF fan, or you related to the people who watched the robots getting butchered in A.I., you'll probably like Rollerball."
-- Jon Popick, PLANET SICK-BOY
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* Who are the Approved Tomatometer Critics?
* Mouse over a tomato icon for a publication's original rating. Original rating not available for every publication.
* In fairness to critics whose last name begins with a letter at the end of the alphabet, certain pages are sorted in reverse order, z-a.
* Certain "Rollerball" article data provided by the Movie Review Query Engine.
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