Jeanskynebu the audience applauded

Evengyny Thanks for the memories!

Pluskylang Great Film overall

Gurlyndrobb While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

ManoaBoy Funny how art ultimately imitates life. This movie is like a Nostradomus vision of our current economic situation. Only difference is that the villains aren't Arabs, we just have to look in to the mirror to see who did it to us. Time to buy gold? Time to stock up on emergency provisions? Ebay's founder, PIERRE OMIDYAR, moved to Hawaii but has contingency plans in case of pandemic or economic collapse. See: The Honolulu Advertiser, article on front page of March, 22, 2009. It is a real hoot to see how a billionaire views the world!So don't forget to stock up on food and water, and if you can't afford a security detail of ex-secret service agents, find yourself a good firearm to protect you and your loved ones.

BombVark An over valued dollar, the system on the brink, the big bankers and their government stooges have gone too far. Sound familiar? The previous poster attributes the financial melt down in the movie to capitalism. Actually, the movie doesn't touched at all on the causes of the system breakdown. But it is not capitalism, but government interference in the market which would cause such a melt down. But it is fun to see central banking get its just reward, and to see gold emerge a winner.

Tarriq Afifi The short side of the story is that this has to be one of the worst movies I have ever seen. Rythme-wise, the movie is dead. It makes you feel like you are attending a lecture on economy at the university. And to think that I watched the movie because it was described as a "thriller!"The story portrays an Arab plot to shake the foundations of global economy using the simple concept that there is alot more "printed" paper money than there is actual value out there in the world.First of all, the movie is offensive to Arabs. If this movie was made now, civil rights groups and Muslim/Arab groups would be all over it, in one scene, Jane Fonda says (about taking a loan from those Arabs): "I feel like a beggar asking them for money, and I HATE it!" and Kristofferson comforts her by saying: "You and the rest of the world!" This is an out right racist statement that wouldn't slip so casually as it did in 1981. Aside from that, the movie protrays Arab customs rather poorly, on one side, the director of the movie is keen on showing Arab rich people sitting on the ground and eating with their hands from one big plate (to somehoe portray primitivity) and forcing Fonda and Kristofferson to do the same (which doesn't happen in real life, they give guests plates and spoons if they need them), but the director makes a bigger slip of showing them shaking hands with Fonda and sitting right next to her in the dinner. That would not take place in the same societies that eat with their hands from the plates.Other omissions are plenty as well, portraying Arab countries and cities as vast areas of desert lands and tents doesn't portray what the Arab world looked like in 1981.From an acting stand point, Fonda is not too bad, but Kristofferson is awful. His "cowboy" acting style really misses the target in this one. The image of a banker who talks like a cowboy, behaves like a cowboy and tells his boss in the bank that if he doesn't hang up the phone he would smash his head.. This image is just not real. The way every night fall in the movie almost always ends with Fonda and Kristofferson making love is also not real for two people well over fourty as the movie portrays. So, you feel like the roles were written in a naive way. Not much attention was put into seeing how the characters fit into their perspective roles.Overall, this movie is not worth renting on video even, I would suggest waiting till its out there on TNT or TBS or something, in fact, it's not worth such a long review. (:-)))

Sodie Maltin's summary of the film is idiotic. Clearly a case of 'saw the film, didn't understand it, decided to bash it.' That's his loss. Anyone who's ever read 'Das Kapital,' Marx's massive 3-volume (he died before completing the last volume, but it still got up to be around 1,000 pages) masterpiece would immediately recognize in 'Rollover' Marx's assertion that the capitalist system is doomed to self-destruct. That by its very nature it will bring about that thing which it despises most--the world socialist revolution. Marx said that we will see capitalism's boom-then-bust cycle grow increasingly more impossible to control, until it hits a 'low' so deep, so wide-reaching, that workers everywhere will unite and say, 'HEY! This isn't right.' The Great Depression is an example of one such 'deep low' in capitalism's cycle. 'Rollover' is a vision of the next such deep pit. Of how it comes about, in any case. Don't read the next bit if you don't want a spoiler, but the last scenes in the film are of the world proletariat rallying in public places, defying state authority...gearing up to rebel, in other words. That's about as Marxist as you can get! And you don't have to be a dork like me and read 'Das Kapital' to understand it. Maltin...didn't put the thought-effort into this one. And that's a shame, because I think it's a film that's very germane to American life. We think we have it good, and we'll always have it good, because this is the US of A. We have the FDIC now, we'll be all right. That's nonsense!! Maltin called 'Rollover' "financial science fiction." However imprecise that clumsy label might seem, there's a grain of truth to it. For what is sci fi but 'the thing that might someday be?'