Rollerball

This film (drama)Also known asRollerball，is aUnited KingdomProducerwomen sex，At1975Released in year 。The dialogue language isEnglish，Current Douban rating6.3(For reference only)。

In the near future of 2005, an emerging competitive sport called "Rollerball" attracts public attention with its extraordinary thrills and excitement, becoming a major sports entertainment hotspot. When the season arrives, tens of thousands of fervent fans bet wildly on their favorite teams and then stay glued to their screens to watch the tense live broadcasts. However, behind this sport lies a dark and brutal reality. Rollerball combines the characteristics of ice hockey and polo, based on individual skill and team collaboration, with loose rules that encourage vigorous competition. Moreover, motorcycles are also one of the sporting equipment in this sport, allowing competitors to perform any maneuvers, even permitting a player to ride over an opponent with a motorcycle, making Rollerball not just thrilling and exciting but increasingly violent and barbaric—on the field, players can die in clashes at any moment. Consequently, international sports organizations strictly limit the development of this sport, confining it to underground status primarily in countries like Turkey and Kazakhstan, but this limitation fails to restrain the brutality of the sport from growing more terrifying and widespread. Alexei Patowick (Jean Reno) is a Russian tycoon who not only owns his own Rollerball team—the Knights—but also has acquired the organization rights for the entire Rollerball sport. To ensure the sport brings him substantial profits, the ambitious Patowick has made a series of reforms to the competition rules and organizational structure, making Rollerball competitions resemble the gladiatorial games of ancient Rome, becoming even more brutal and bloody, thereby increasing its appeal and "spectacle"; at the same time, under Patowick's management, Rollerball's scale continues to expand, with more and more professional teams and players from various countries joining the league, and the overall level of competition rising. Among the many teams in the league, Patowick's Knights are a highly skilled, unbeatable, almost mythical team. With the efforts of captain Jonathan Cross (Chris Klein) and soul players Marcus Ridley (LL Cool J) and Aurora (Rebecca Romijn-Stamos), the Knights have amassed unmatched points in the league, winning a multitude of fans. However, none of this can bring joy to the team owner, as he only cares about whether the team can advance and bring him a steady stream of revenue—he is willing to pay any price for this, including the lives of players. Witnessing the continuous tragedies on the field and Patowick's ruthless indifference, Cross and his teammates gradually feel a pang of conscience. Perhaps they should do something to expose the evil behind this barbaric sport—even if it might lead to their own demise...