Rollerball
Dir: John McTiernan
2002
*
Probably one of the worst films I've ever seen. Is this really the same John McTiernan that brought us Die Hard and Predator? To be fair, he also brought us Last Action Hero and the awful The Thomas Crown Affair remake (What's next in the Norman Jewson remake list Fiddler on the Roof staring Arnold Schwarzenegger as Tevye?). And after all that it looks like he's going to jail for his troubles. Still, it doesn't make sense, he made The 13th Warrior 3 years before Rollerball and Basic a year later and both are good films that show a talented director, Rollerball looks like it was directed by a drunk child and edited by a Parkinsons sufferer with no arms and no eyes. The most annoying thing is that instead of recording both this and the original that were on TV the other day, I recorded this and its repeat an hour later. Still, like my Wife said, "Look on the bright side, you get to delete it twice".