Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Humaira Grant It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Philippa All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

joopaul First of all the original film needs to be rated much higher on this site. Anything below an 8 never mind a 7 is criminal. 6.6 ?Anyway back to this utter **** up remake. McTiernan you ought to be thoroughly ashamed to even call this film 'Rollerball'. Was the editor being fxxxed up the arse sideways while he pressed the buttons?? $70,000,000 budget on what - plastic surgery for the acting line-up and foie gras sandwiches?What in hell's name was the film about? It was disjointed and impossible to follow. Dialogue - forget it. The characters barely developed during the whole film and you couldn't care if they got bludgeoned to death during the game anyway.Save your money or down a few pints instead !!

James Hitchcock I must admit that I have never really liked Norman Jewison's "Rollerball" from 1975. The action scenes are fine, but they suffer from being placed in the context of a muddled and half-baked plot about life in a future dystopian society. Having now seen John McTiernan's 2002 remake, however, I can say that it is far worse even than the original. Whereas the first film was set in the future, about forty years after the date when it was made, the remake takes place in the present. The new sport of Rollerball has become hugely popular, especially, for some reason, in Central Asia. The rules of the game are much the same as in the original, with the main exception that it is now played between mixed-sex teams. (In the first film the sport was strictly for men only). Jonathan Cross, an up-and-coming young star of the sport, accepts a highly-paid contract to play for a team based in Kazakhstan.I won't go into great details of the plot, which is often muddled and confusing. The two main strands Jonathan's conflicts with the team's owner Alexei Petrovich and his romance with his female team mate Aurora. Jonathan discovers that Alexei is manipulating the game in order to make it more violent and thus boost its television ratings. It ends with Jonathan leading a revolution to topple Kazakhstan's ruling elite, of which Alexei is a part. Most of this plot, however, is simply a peg on which to hang the gory action scenes which are the main feature of the film. Unlike the original film, the social and political overtones are very much played down.In the original James Caan made a rather weak, inarticulate hero, whom I found difficult to imagine as a charismatic sportsman, but at least he was better than the wooden Chris Klein who plays the equivalent role here. Not that the rest of the cast are any better. Rebecca Romijn is, apparently, fond of telling people that her surname is pronounced "Romaine, as in the lettuce", which seems unfortunately inappropriate given that she here shows all the talent and charisma of a wet and soggy lump of that particular vegetable. She seemed a promising newcomer in "X-Men", but here she seems to be no more than the latest in a long line of supermodels who try their hand at acting on the assumption that their new profession will be no more intellectually taxing than walking down a catwalk. There is an equally long line of singers who have failed to shine when they have attempted to move into the cinema, and LL Cool J falls into this category. He also seems to have a gift for picking the wrong films; the last two I saw him in before "Rollerball" were "Woo" and "Charlie's Angels", both almost equally bad.McTiernan will never be accounted a great auteur, but his other films which I have seen, such as his contributions to the "Die Hard" series and "The Thomas Crown Affair" (also a remake of a Jewison film), are competently made and often enjoyable pieces of popular entertainment. The dreadful "Rollerball" is neither. If Jewison's film was half-baked, McTiernan's is not even quarter-baked. 2/10

Neil Welch There was me thinking John McTiernan knew what he was up to.This film is a mess.The story is familiar and clichéd but, even so, the telling of it is muddled.Rollerball itself, potentially exciting, is hopelessly confusing and pointless.The script is slightly less useful than waste paper.Rebecca Romijn-Stamos looks good.Chris Klein, looking very like Keanu Reeves, proves to be a good deal less expressive. The lad has shown himself to be tolerable in an ensemble piece, but he can't carry an action movie on his own due to a complete absence of charisma.Poor.

Son_of_Mansfield because it's missing something. The biggest flaw is Chris Klein, he is the most bland actor that I have ever seen. How does a pretty boy like him survive in a bloody, winner take all game like Rollerball? More than that, he doesn't have the charisma to lead a movie. Adding to the problem is that there isn't enough going on in this movie aside from distracting night vision scenes. There isn't any of the social commentary that the original had or the tense action scenes, it fails on both fronts. The only solace is some of the cast: Jean Reno, Ice Cube, and Rebecca Romijn. Ice Cube would have made a better lead and a much more believable Rollerballer with his body. But, as is, This is mess that is best forgotten.