Product Information
A remake of the 1975 classic in which society is so perfect it invents a brutal game to burn up hostility and other anti-social feelings.Product Identifiers
EAN5050582238853
eBay Product ID (ePID)44078720
Product Key Features
ActorChris Klein, L.L. Cool J., Jean Reno, Rebecca Romijn, Naveen Andrews
Film/TV TitleRollerball
DirectorJohn McTiernan
LanguageEnglish
Subtitle LanguageArabic\Dutch\English\French\Hindi\Portuguese\Spanish
Run Time94 Mins
Aspect Ratio1.85 Anamorphic Wide Screen
FormatDVD
Release Year2004
FeaturesActors Commentary\Rollerball Yearbook Interactive Featurette\Theatrical Trailer, Widescreen, Closed Caption, With Subtitles
GenreGeneral, Action & Adventure
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs1
Certificate15
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States of America
Hearing ImpairedEnglish
Additional InformationIt's the year 2005; the new sport of Rollerball is hugely popular in the unstable, ex-Soviet republics of South Asia. Marcus Ridley (LL Cool J) invites NHL-hopeful Jonathan Cross (Chris Klein) to join him playing for the Zhambel Horsemen, in Kazahkstan. The highly paid Marcus and Jonathon are teamed with low-paid locals, who are routinely severely injured in the game, which is an extraordinarily violent extension of roller derby involving motorcycles, a metal ball, and many trappings of World Wrestling Entertainment. Soon the team's star and the darling of promoter Alexi Petrovich (Jean Reno), Jonathan, is thrilled by the high-octane sport, the hype, the sports cars, and female team mate Aurora (a glowering, scar-faced Rebecca Romijm-Stamos). But gradually Jonathan discovers that the cynical Alexi and his opportunistic assistant Sanjay (Naveen Andrews) will go to any lengths to manipulate the game in order to provide an evermore gory spectacle and improve the game's television ratings. Director John McTiernan's movie is grungy and even more violent than the original 1975 ROLLERBALL. He conveys the visceral nature of the game with sharply edited action sequences and a goosed-up soundtrack, and then he shows the volatile game convulsively spinning out of control and causing social upheaval.
Dubbing LanguagesFrench\Spanish
Sound sourceDolby Digital 5.1
Format DescriptionDVD 9