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Unbeknownst to many, this film is actually a remake and according to Norman Jewison, the director of the original Rollerball, not a very good one. In comparison to the original, which was released in 1975 and starred James Caan (The Godfather ), this new version is far more violent and, as a result, far less meaningful. According to Jewison, the film is meant to condemn violence and the actions of the corporate world, yet the new Rollerball, as he says, “[embraces] the violence [that] I used in the original to comment on the activities of multinational corporations...
STARRING: Denzel Washington DIRECTOR: Norman Jewison OPENS: limited Dec. 29; wide...
...austerity of Carter's prison life does not offer many opportunities for electrifying moviemaking, but The Hurricane is nevertheless a thoughtful and even inspiring film. That's not just because of the way it celebrates Carter's self-discipline, but because the director, Norman Jewison, enforces the contrast between his stoicism and the efforts of the unlikely team of '60s activists that eventually came to his rescue...
...something else altogether: a critique of the American judicial system even up to the 1990's, where the hand-in-hand complicity of police and the justice system prevents Carter's release from prison in order to cover up police corruption in New Jersey. With dizzying rapidity, Jewison now whips up righteous lawyers who passionately rail against the judicial system as well as shady police officers who threaten the three Canadians who decide to rally to Carter's cause. And as if we weren't more than inundated with inspirational themes, we even have a parallel story of another poor...
...while all four possibilities for this movie were certainly interesting, put them together and you get a movie that just tries too hard to accomplish too much. And what suffers the most? Explanations and motives for half of the movie, which, Jewison, in trying to incorporate every Oscar-worthy theme in filmmaking, has no choice but to leave out in a movie that is already very long. So we're never given a real reason as to why the ridiculously sinister Depalowski goes out of his way to persecute (and believe me, he really goes...