Rollerball Details

Rollerball

It'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.

Starring	Chris Klein, Jean Reno, L.L. Cool J., Rebecca Romijn, Naveen Andrews
Director	John McTiernan
Studio	UCA
Run time	DVD: 1 hr 34 mins Blu-ray: 1 hr 38 mins
Certificate
Genres	Action/Adventure, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Language	DVD: English Blu-ray: English
Dubbed	French, Spanish
Hearing-impaired	English
Subtitles	DVD: Arabic, Dutch, English, French, Hindi, Portuguese, Spanish Blu-ray: Croatian, Dutch, Finnish, Slovene, Danish, Hebrew, Greek, Spanish, Hindi, Czech, Norwegian, French, Portuguese, Hungarian, Bulgarian, English, Swedish, Arabic, Turkish, Polish
Released	DVD: 08 Mar 2004 Blu-ray: 25 Aug 2008 Production year: 2001
Format	DVD