In the
future, corporations have taken over the world, and together they
devise a game that is meant to teach the masses the values they want,
namely the team and corporation is more important than the
individual. Now a man named Jonathan E. has become a hero to the
people for his superior play and the corporate higher-ups request him
to retire. Jonathan think otherwose, as his love of the game is
about the only thing in his life since the corporations took his only
true love away.
ROLLERBALL
has an interesting idea, but any pretenses of delivering a message
get lost during some violent action and rather tepid dramatic scenes.
The most memorable scenes are of the game of Rollerball itself,
which is where almost all of the interesting moments take place.
Some lackluster soap opera subplots involving the love Jonathan has
lost and some ridiculously unintelligible plot to get Jonathan to
retire mire the film down due to a lack of plausibility. Still, it
does spark enough decent sci-fi elements to make it watchable if
overlong and underdeveloped entertainment.
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