This week I watched Rollerball. What is Rollerball you ask? Rollerball is a crazy sport that involves metal balls, motorcycles and rollerblades, thats right, rollerblades. Its only the most popular and extreme sport in the world! The movie is about a pro-rollerball player that realizes that the games are being rigged to get more views.
Our main man Jonathan decides to go to Russia to play in this "circus" as he calls it, and what a circus it is.
The teams wear leather uniforms with mask that have spikes or skulls and the like. There are two players on each team that ride around on motorcycles while the rest skate around at high speeds. The sport itself is pretty boring actually, and most of the time you won't know whats going on until someone scores. Well, we see a couple matches and then they realize it's rigged, so the try to escape, and that chase scene is what made me decide this was a bad movie. It has a green filter on it! Like they had a night vision camera or something. It was bad. If you where even a little bit into the film, this takes you out of it for good. I have no idea what they where going for, but it did not work. To top it off, the acting is bland and generic.
I felt that this movie was made specifically for middle school kids in 2002. It has motorcycles, and fast cars and explosions, it has random nudity, and music that is "metal". Slipknot makes a cameo appearance. So with that said, unless you are really into rollerblades, or a middle school kid, you will not enjoy Rollerball.
Movie Score:
- 2/10
- T (O.W.L.)
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