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1975
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11
Negative reviews
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Average Rating
2.9
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4.5
Norman Jewisons sensational futuristic drama about a world of Corporate States stars James Caan in an excellent performance as a famed athlete who fig ..
Variety
1.5
Ultimately, Rollerball gets by on its sheer monolithic quality an abundance of quantity. Despite indifferent direction and dire humour, it is well mou ..
Time Out
2.0
Delayed from last summer and re edited to better appeal to the youth market, John McTiernans remake of 1970s cult favourite Rollerball finally arrives ..
Screen Daily
4.0
The signs are still there, and if anything, theyre more pronounced than they were in 1975. Rollerball is first and foremost, a good movie. It has stro ..
IGN
3.0
So the scripts a little laboured, but for shere exuberance and adrenaline pumping you dont get better than this unless youre at a rave.
2.5
Thats pretty much the plot of the movie the whole way through.Not the most interesting way that this film could have gone.After a while, I just didnt ..
JoBlo
2.0
In the end it looks more like a formulaic sports film than a thoughtful sci fi venture; its a spectacle that dazzles visually but fizzles as a work of ..
Sover
3.8
From its gloomy and solemn air to the overbearing use of baroque music, the film is far too self important for its own good.
Tv Guide
5.0
This is where the genre genuinely started to boldly go where it had never gone before.
Rolling Stone
4.5
Rollerball is a science fiction masterpiece and exciting action film.
Cinema Crazed
3.0
What drags is the tedious exposition of its one man against the systems impossible odds message.Modern audiences want action not talk.
Bbc
2.0
A game of intricate barbarity, rollerball requires a certain dexterity and a pronounced taste for slaughter.
Time
1.5
Its not funny at all and, not being funny, it becomes, instead, frivolous.
Ny Times
2.0
As it is, this solemn picture is an example of interesting ideas crying out for sharper execution.
The Skinny
4.0
Inside the arena, its a fantastic action movie, but outside, its starchy and pretentious.
Film 4
3.8
But what served as an inane action movie in the 1980s was presented as a more thoughtful drama a decade before.
Scifi Movie Page
1.5
Lifeless, uninspired, and crammed with enough hints of intellectual consistency to give the socially conscious critical establishment shivers of excit ..
Chicago Reader
3.1
Director Norman Jewison has far more luck with his staging of the Rollerball matches (theyre at once exciting and horrifying) than scripter William Ha ..
Clclt
4.0
The combination of Roman Empire styled decadence and violence mixed with a vision of a bizarre, loveless corporate future is evocative and unsettling.
Net Flix
0.5
If this is the future, take me back to Raquel Welch and Kansas City Bomber.
Los Angeles Free Press
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