a5c7b9f00b In a futuristic society where corporations have replaced countries, the violent game of Rollerball is used to control the populace by demonstrating the futility of individuality. However, one player, Jonathan E., rises to the top, fights for his personal freedom, and threatens the corporate control.
The year is 2018. There is no crime and there are no more wars. Corporations are now the leaders of the world,wellthe controllers of the people. A violent futuristic game knownRollerball is now the recreational sport of the world, with teams representing various areas competing for the title of champion. The defending championship team, the Houston team led by the determined ten-year veteran Johnathan E., is looking to repeatchampions. However, Bartholomew, the sinister corporate head, wants Johnathan to retire, even though he is the most respected athlete of his time. Johnathan's rebellious quest will not come out with complications, both for him and his teammates, after he decides to continue playing despite Bartholomew's threats.
In a future society governed by powerful corporations, a violent spectator sport called Rollerball is immensely popular worldwide. Jonathan E is a veteran Rollerball star, but when he is given orders to retire he starts to question what is behind the decision …<br/><br/>Rollerball, like a lot of seventies cinema, is an interesting and thought-provoking film, but not without some problems. It has lots of intriguing themes going on; what gave rise to the corporate apolitical structure, why are dangerous gladiatorial sports so popular, are people so materialistic they would really give up freedom for glamour, and why are the power brokers so threatened by Jonathan's hero status. But for every interesting idea there are also scenes that fall flat; the boring society party full of pretty people we don't know or care anything about, a ridiculous bit with Richardson about a senile supercomputer, and almost all the parts with Jonathan's floozies (though Hensley,the first one, at least has a personality). The other problem is the villain, Bartholomew, who is well played by Houseman but never allowed to actually do anything nasty, so we never feel Jonathan is in any danger and the tension is lost. Caan is strong in the lead, and handles both the physical performing and the internal angst with impressive skill, but is left floundering in a movie that is much too serious, unstructured and long for its own good. Shot in the UK for some reason, with a talented British crew, notably the excellent production design by John Box (Oliver!, Sorcerer, The Keep) and a heavy classical score featuring Bach's Toccata And Fugue In D Minor and Remo Giazotto's Adagio In G Minor. What is of course faultless in this film is the bone-crunching stuntwork,the Rollerball players are smashed, mashed, crunched and thumped around the arena. A movie with good ideas, which could perhaps learn a lesson from Tank Girl, a more recent film about a future world controlled by an energy corporation; it has justmany imaginative notions, but is funny, exciting, fast-paced entertainment all the way, with vibrant, dynamic characters. Rollerball is an iconic sci-fi classic, but just a little too portentous and self-absorbed for my liking. Written by William Harrison, and remade (badly, by most accounts) in 2002.
In 2018 corporate capitalism has abolished war , sickness and poverty and the masses of the human race watch Rollerball a violent sport . The world's greatest star of the sport Jonathan E finds himself being manipulated by a global corporate company <br/><br/>Believe it or not after THE GODFATHER films were released it wasn't Pacino or DeNiro who was going to be the biggest star from the films but James Caan . As ridiculousit may seem now you can understand that his manly , rugged all American physical features would be ready made for New Hollywood unlike the somewhat ethnic background of Pacino and DeNiro . As it turned those two Italian Americans became two of the greatest actors of their generation while Caan quickly disappeared in obscure forgotten films like FREEBIE AND THE BEAN and THE KILLER ELITE . This film by Norman Jewison ROLLERBALL was probably Caan's career highlight <br/><br/>ROLLERBALL is another dystopian science fiction film popular from the period where the future vision of humanity has seen the upside where war , illness and poverty has been eradicated . The downside is that with it individuality and democracy has effectively become a thing of the past too and world is ruled not by democratically elected governments but by corporate companies who control the population by giving them what they want but on the corporate terms <br/><br/>This is a persuasive idea and one that's not really exaggerated . George Orwell described sport" War without the shooting " andsomeone who grew up in the west of Scotland I can testify that most peoples obsession revolves around two football clubs Rangers and Celtic who attract a lot of sectarian pond life and there's a blackly comical joke that there's only six letters in the West of Scotland alphabet - IRA and UVF , so the idea of corporate companies controlling the masses wasn't a ridiculous idea when this film was made <br/><br/>The problem is that the message is a bit too heavy handed to be entirely credible . It's true that people belong to tribes and this never truer than where sport is concerned but you have to think why would a sport like Rollerball make headway in to Europe or South America where football or soccerit is known in America be the world's most popular game . Likewise would Rollerball be popular in the third world like Africa or Asia or any failed state ? The more you think about the premise collapses that the concept of war and poverty has been abolished <br/><br/>Where the film works best is the scenes of the game itself . I'm not entirely sure what the rules of the game are but it's certainly an exciting sport that might best be described" carnage porn " . Director Jewison tries hard to make the game scenes spontaneous via the use of editing and sound mix and probably tries a bit too hard to make it appear spontaneous but the action scenes are exciting and it's this that makes the film a success . Compare it to the wimpish remake from ten years ago to see what I mean

The players on roller skates can use force against one another but to attack a motorbike rider or a roller skater who has fallen to the ground is a foul and punished by three minutes out of the arena. If injured a player can be rescued by medics and replaced by a substitute.
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