Rollerball (2002) Critic Reviews

A turbo-charged remake that should alienate no fans of the adrenalized 1975 original.Read the full review

Rollerball was trash even back in 1975, but in some small way it was ahead of its time. The new version just makes you feel like you've been watching a lame late-night rerun while stuck in a thunderdome.Read the full review

Meretricious without being entertaining, it's an easy game -- and an easier film -- to sit out.Read the full review

It's too bad this Rollerball veered off-track so swiftly, derailed by bad writing and possibly also by some of that extensive post-production reworking.Read the full review

The word on Rollerball is "troubled," though troubled is what you call a high school junior with 50 snakes under his bed. Catastrophe is more like it.Read the full review

The most depressing thing about this movie is not that it's such a complete waste of time, but that there are people in Hollywood who think this kind of thing is what American movie-goers are interested in seeing.Read the full review

The current version, however, like its predecessor, fails as entertainment. Mr. 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.Read the full review

Only those attracted to "Waterworld" or "Last Action Hero" level big-budget disasters need bother with this one.Read the full review

An incoherent mess, a jumble of footage in search of plot, meaning, rhythm and sense.Read the full review