Futuresport (1998)
Adrian Hughes, Bill Smitrovich, Dean Cain, JR Bourne, Rachel Shane ... (see more) , Valerie Chow , Vanessa L. Williams , Wesley Snipes
In 2025, a revolutionary sport is the only way to stop a revolution.
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R, 91 min.
Directed by:
Ernest R. Dickerson
Release Date: Oct 01, 1998
DVD Release Date: Mar 30, 1999
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Considering it is what it says it is there is little to be disappointed about in futuresport. It delivers the science fiction action and the idea of a new sport call futuresport. The movie has some good moments and Wesley Snipes shows off a couple mo... (read more) Considering it is what it says it is there is little to be disappointed about in futuresport. It delivers the science fiction action and the idea of a new sport call futuresport. The movie has some good moments and Wesley Snipes shows off a couple moves. It is not his movie Dean Cain is the main actor and he does his job well. Valerie Chow is nice too. I felt that the movie is fine escapist fun for sci fi lovers and for me because i love the low budget sci fi genre which usually gets dismissed because people expect every sci fi movie to have big budget special effects. Overall, you know what you get and it entertains well.
Futuresport is a movie set (suprise) in a future where a sport called, ahem, "Futuresport," is the world's most popular pastime. There's also lots of trouble because of Hawaiin terrorists, and the world has been redivided into continental unions for ... (read more) Futuresport is a movie set (suprise) in a future where a sport called, ahem, "Futuresport," is the world's most popular pastime. There's also lots of trouble because of Hawaiin terrorists, and the world has been redivided into continental unions for some reason. It stars Dean Cain as Futuresport's top athelete, Vannessa Williams as a hot reporter and Wesley Snipes as a cool black guy. Vancouver serves once again as futureplace.
It was awful, of course, but that's not what I want to write about.
Here's the thing that bothered me the most; you see, if you're in the future, it is not the future, it is the present. Accordingly, when one invents a game in the future, say a game resembling a cross between handball and basketball, only played on levitating skateboards with an electrified ball, one would not call it "Futuresport" because, again, in the future the future is the present, and they would be no more cognizant of their being in the future from the vantage-point of a person in 2008 then I am cognizant of my futuristic status in comparison to some poor fellow named Kevin Leeson in 1994. I suspect the game's inventor (Wesley Snipes) would call it "lever-ball" or"present-daysport" or something.
Maybe it's a stupid complaint, but I just couldn't get past all these people talking about Futuresport this and Futuresport that and "have you forgotten the true meaning of Futuresport?" And if one can't get past that, one cannot have the necessary level of suspension of disbelief to accept the rest of movie. Oh! And if you're going to get dinged by the ratings board for having nudity in a film, why not go all out, instead of just one brief blurry shot? The film could have held my interest much more effectively if Vanessa Williams had been naked the whole time. She could have been a reporter for, I don't know, "The Future Naked News Broadcasting System."
Speaking of which, I'm hungry. I think I'll have a "Future-sandwich."
Kevin Factor: Since Mr. Leeson was Dean Cain's stunt-double in the skateboarding scenes, he has probably already scene this film.
Well its better than the Rollerball remake but not as good as Rollerball. It should win some sort of award for the worst plot and accents but at least they gave it a go.
so bad its good, superman saves the world again with the help of wesley snipe's jamaican twin!!! all this and vanessa williams in the back ground. what more do you want from a film
this movie is so bad it's good. seriously. you've got wesley snipes as a jamaican gangster, vanessa williams being...vanessa williams, and dean cain who saves the world from wwIII (or IV or...something) by playing the dumbest-named cross between ho... (read more) this movie is so bad it's good. seriously. you've got wesley snipes as a jamaican gangster, vanessa williams being...vanessa williams, and dean cain who saves the world from wwIII (or IV or...something) by playing the dumbest-named cross between hockey and rollerball on skateboards known to man. it's pure brilliance.
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