Violent waste of time

Who ever thought that Rollerball was a good idea? I suppose there is sound logic to not wanting to remake a genuine classic, but aren’t there better, more adventurous properties lying around film producers’ vaults than Rollerball?

The Norman Jewison original was a meagre hit back in 1975, and hardly presented a very prescient vision of the future, even if it did successfully foreshadow the lingering cultural obsession with reality television and (God help us) WWF wrestling.