Futuresport Reviews

This hard-driving, made-for-TV action picture with political undertones favors bone-crushing solutions to global unrest. Though impossible to take seriously on any level, it does boast flashier special effects and crisper editing than most made-for-TV movies. In the year 2025, the world's most popular spectator event is Futuresport, a combination of hockey and skateboarding started in the ghetto by Obike Fixx (Wesley Snipes). Fixx's protegee, Tre Ramzey (Dean Cain), commercialized the game and now it's so prominent that HLO terrorists, who support the secession of Hawaii from the USA, try unsuccessfully to assassinate former Hawaiian resident Ramzey, who opposes their cause. Humbled by losing a match, the apolitical Ramzey is willing to listen to his ex-girlfriend, newscaster Alex Torres (Vanessa L. Williams), who predicts that the Hawaiian separatists will take increasingly desperate action to get what they want. Stirred by Alex's patriotism, Ramzey convinces the US government to let him challenge the HLO to a Futuresport competition that will determine the fate of the Hawaiian Islands. The averting-civil-war-through-athletics scenario is so ludicrous that it falls to this ROLLERBALL (1977) rip-off's sporting sequences carry the day.