Rollerball (2002)

Regisseur:

John McTiernan

Drehbuchautoren (WGA):

William Harrison (short story "Roller Ball Murder")
William Harrison (1975 screenplay)

Premierendatum:

8. Februar 2002 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Sci-Fi | Sportfilm

Werbezeile:

Get In The Game.

Plot:

The big thing in 2005 is a violent sport which can have some pretty serious consequences... like dying.

Plot Keywords:

Box Office Flop | Remake | Fictitious Sport | Sports League | Violence

Filmpreise:

2 nominations

Nutzerkommentare:

A Wimp Of A Movie

Besetzung

Chris Klein	...	Jonathan Cross
Jean Reno	...	Alexis Petrovich
LL Cool J	...	Marcus Ridley
Rebecca Romijn	...	Aurora (as Rebecca Romijn-Stamos)
Naveen Andrews	...	Sanjay
Oleg Taktarov	...	Denekin
David Hemblen	...	Serokin
Janet Wright	...	Coach Olga
Andrew Bryniarski	...	Halloran
Kata Dobó	...	Katya
Alice Poon	...	Red Team #7
Lucia Rijker	...	Red Team #9
Melissa R. Stubbs	...	Red Team #12 (as Melissa Stubbs)
Paul Wu	...	Red Team #16 - U Chow
Yolanda Hughes-Heying	...	Red Team #28

Alternativ:

Rollerball (Deutschland)
Rollerball (Österreich) [de]

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for violence, extreme sports action, sensuality, language and some drug references.

Länge:

Finland:98 Min | Germany:95 Min | USA:97 Min (R-rated version)

Produktionsland:

USA | Deutschland | Japan

Sprache:

Englisch | Russisch | Französisch | Arabisch | Koreanisch | Deutsch | Japanisch

Farbe:

Farbe

Seitenverhältnis:

2.35 : 1

Tonverfahren:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Altersfreigabe:

South Korea:15 | Iceland:16 | Malaysia:18SG | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Finland:K-15 | France:-12 | Germany:18 | Hungary:16 | Peru:18 | Philippines:R-18 | Portugal:M/16 | Singapore:M18 | Spain:18 | Sweden:15 | UK:15 | USA:PG-13 (original rating) | USA:R (home video version)

Drehorte:

Blainville, Québec, Canada

Firma:

Atlas Entertainment

Dies und das:

LL Cool J admitted in a guest appearance on _"Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1993)"_ that the film "sucked" but that it was his duty to promote the film.

Pannen:

Faktische Fehler: Mongolians do not speak Cantonese.

Dialogzitate:

Alexis Petrovich: You see Yevgeny over there, so full of himself now. He used to work in the post office. I introduced him to the proper financing, and now he owns the mines. Yeah, making a fortune. Keeps the miners in line. Good business. You might wonder why I'm not in it myself...

Bezüge zu anderen Titeln:

Verweis/Anspielung/Erwähnung in Oh, No! Zombies!!! (2003) (V)

Soundtrack:

Ride

A Wimp Of A Movie

The original ROLLERBALL was by no means a classic SF movie but at least the audience knew they were watching a dark futuristic thriller . This completely lame remake misfires on every level . Since it's set a couple of years in the future there's no chance it can be called futuristic . It might be described as " Dark " but that's because no one seems to have paid the electricity bill during production . But the main failing in this version is the game of Rollerball itself . In the original the game would see matches where several team members would either die or be maimed for life but in this present day version it doesn't seem anymore dangerous than American football or Rugby or any other type of contact sport . hell even bimbos are allowed to take part . in other words this is a game for wimps in comparison and this ruins the movie far more than the oft quoted aspects like the poor acting , camp sound effects and the night vision sequence