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  • Actors: Chris Klein, Jean Reno, L.L. Cool J., Rebecca Romijn, Naveen Andrews
  • Directors: John McTiernan
  • Format: Anamorphic, Dubbed, PAL
  • Language English
  • Subtitles: Arabic, Dutch, English, French, Hindi, Portuguese, Spanish
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Uca
  • DVD Release Date: 8 Mar 2004
  • Run Time: 94 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 1.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000071WJ5
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 18,391 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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This Rollerball, a 2002 remake of the excellent 1975 original, is one of the most notorious failed would-be blockbusters of recent years. Chris Klein struggles as Jonathon Cross, star of the violent game of the title, a mixture of speedway, hockey and rollerskating for the WWF generation. Perfunctory support comes from Rebecca (X Men) Romijn-Stamos, while Jean Reno is the promoter prepared to sacrifice player's lives for TV ratings. The remake could not be more different from the original in tone, as formal elegance is replaced by a cacophonic heavy metal soundtrack and MTV-style editing that makes the games impossible to follow. Set in the present, this Rollerball ironically fulfils the original's suggestion that the near future would be a big business, media-dominated world of blood and circuses. The film's best asset is relocating the story in a crumbling and corrupt Russia, a world sufficiently alien to have a genuinely science fictional resonance; the elaborate production design and wild profusion of costumes suggest post-communism, post-modern, global melting pot freefalling out of control, paying homage to Ridley Scott's seminal Blade Runner (significantly, perhaps, LL Cool J's character is called Ridley). Not quite as disastrous as expected, one still wonders how John (Die Hard) McTiernan made an action thriller this mediocre.

On the DVD: Rollerball's commentary by Chris Klein, LL Cool J and Rebecca Romijn-Stamos is jokey, amiable and reveals plenty of filmmaking trivia without offering anything substantial. The "Rollerball Yearbook" presents text profiles of the four teams and 11 key players linked to "highlights", i.e., montages taken from the film of the participants. This also has sections on six areas of the "Roller Dome" and three sections on "Game Gear", which amounts to a photo gallery of costumes, masks and bikes. Also included is the theatrical trailer and trailers for three other SF movies. The anamorphic 2.35:1 transfer is excellent, and the Dolby Digital 5.1 sound is suitably dynamic and raucous. There are subtitles in six languages as well as English and English for Hard of Hearing, while the disc also contains French and Spanish dubs of the main feature. --Gary S Dalkin



Special Features

Actor's Commentary
Roller ball Yearbook
Interactive Featurette
Theatrical Trailer
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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars I'd give it zero stars but that isnt a option :(, 23 May 2003
Were can I start its going to be hard to review this film without swearing but I'll try......

As a fan of the original I was quite looking forward to this film, when it came out it received poor reviews so I never bothered getting it, however after a good few months I did decide to get it, the original is one of the most powerful films I have seen and is certainly in my top 10, this is by far the worst film I have ever seen in my life. The arena has been modernized and now resembles a circus ring rather than a sports arena, the players are like WWF characters and the action is just lame.

Motorbikes are still a factor however they serve no purpose, the scoring mechanism looks like they have made a prequel rather than a sequel. Chris Klein (a Keanu Reeves wannabe it seems) is the worst actor in the world, he portrays a real soft geezer, a wet fart so to speak and at one point when he was referred to as "The angriest man in the game" I nearly choked to death... Maybe that would have been a good thing as I would not have been able to see the rest of the film.....

The story is pants, the action is superficial, and acting is terrible, the editing (especially the sound) is the worst ever... It is an embarrassment to the word Rollerball, the only good thing to came out of it is REBECCA ROMIJN-STAMOS however that just does not make up for it unfortunately.

Don’t buy, however if you want to be able to tell your mates that you have seen the worst ever film in the history of man, then rent it, and if you haven’t seen the original, then buy that, its a must see film........ sooo disappointed

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Poor., 9 Jan 2004
By KEVIN J NEEDHAM (sawbridgeworth, Herts United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
Very disappointed. The original was a classic and the actual match scenes were superb. This remake is dreadful. The arena is absolutely rubbish and everything becomes too cluttered on screen to actually see what is happening. The kernel of the story was OK and if they had used the original set then it might have worked. However, this was very, very poor. Don't bother, just watch the original again!
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Complete rubbish!, 1 Mar 2006
I am a massive fan of the original Rollerball and yet when I saw the trailer for the new one at the cinema I was very excited. Sadly after 10 minutes watching it my joy was turned to one of bitter disapointment for it was not worth the entrance fee. The actors were all miscast, the performances poor, the action laughable and the storyline boring. Who thought that it would be a good idea to put LL Cool J into the movie anyway? I found him to be more irritating than entertaining and I had to confess that I have never watched the movie all the way through simply because I found I had better things to do with my time. A waste of a classic film license.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Rollerball
Not bad, the original is better and clever, but this is watchable and half decent.
Published 1 month ago by I. A. Smith

1.0 out of 5 stars Bloody Awful
Lots of blood and totally awful steer well clear, why did Jean Reno make this appalling film.

If it had the original sound track ie Bolero it may have been worth 1... Read more
Published 19 months ago by D. Newstead

1.0 out of 5 stars Terrible
The original must be rated a classic. This was so bad I almost gave up watching it. There are considerably better B movies.
Published on 23 Feb 2004 by nic71556

4.0 out of 5 stars Rollerball:Review
I haven't seen the original but Rollerball is a fast-paced struggle for survival action flick with a hard heavy-rock soundtrack to accompany it. Read more
Published on 19 May 2003 by stefanie davenport

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