Rollerball is an unbelievable bomb, but one of the most educational-revealing corporate desperation at its vulgar low.

| Mar 16, 2020

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

| Mar 26, 2013

Loud, crude and outlandish, Rollerball is a parody of itself, a frenzy of extreme-sports stunts masquerading as social commentary on violence and the corporate forces that feed off it.

| Mar 26, 2013

Although Norman Jewison's stolidly grim and ultimately ludicrous 1975 original was hardly a landmark of nightmarish sci-fi, it towers over this.

| Jun 11, 2008

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 10, 2007

Rollerball looks like a checklist shaped by a 15-year-old mallrat: thrashing metal track, skateboards, motorbikes, cracked heads and Rebecca Romijn-Stamos with her top off.

| Jun 24, 2006

The rollerball sequences feel sanitised and stagey.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 23, 2002

Avoid.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 11, 2002

Crass and utterly incomprehensible.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 12, 2002

Bad and baffling from the get-go.

| Original Score: 0/5 | Feb 17, 2002

The new version just makes you feel like you've been watching a lame late-night rerun while stuck in a thunderdome.

| Original Score: C- | Feb 15, 2002

John McTiernan's botched remake may be subtler than Norman Jewison's 1975 ultraviolent futuristic corporate-sports saga. It's also stupider.

| Feb 13, 2002

It's almost enough to make Burton's Apes retread seem like a work of artistic ingenuity.

| Feb 12, 2002

...really horrible drek.

Full Review | Feb 11, 2002

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 8, 2002

Jewison's rich and provocative 1975 original has been de-metaphorized, made narrow and pointless, while remaining just as loud and violent.

Full Review | Original Score: 0.5/5 | Feb 8, 2002

They should have called it Gutterball.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Feb 8, 2002

A remarkable film: Remarkably empty, remarkably noisy, remarkably pleasureless.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Feb 8, 2002

With this new Rollerball, sense and sensibility have been overrun by what can only be characterized as robotic sentiment.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 8, 2002

Successfully creates for the viewer the feeling of being trapped inside a video arcade going at full tilt, a thrilling prospect for 14-year-old boys, no doubt, though it's hard to imagine anyone else enjoying it.

Full Review | Original Score: C- | Feb 8, 2002