Watch: Prayer of the Rollerboys 1990 123movies, Full Movie Online – Set in an unspecified time in the future, USA has declined and become a country of violence and racial prejudice. Griffin earns his living delivering pizzas while he tries to take care of his little brother. An old friend of his, Gary Lee, is the leader of a gang with big ambitions, the Rollerboys. Griff joins them to help the police keep track of the gang..
Plot: Griffin, a rollerblader in the not so distant future of an economically wrecked Los Angeles, races against time to save both his younger brother and the city from the fate dealt out by the fascist rollerblading street gang, the Rollerboys.
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Ahhh…c’mon on, guys…it wasn’t *that* bad!
I gave this flick a shame faced 7 (a baseline 6 + 1 because I’ve thoroughly enjoyed it…twice!) I saw it first in 1991, a full 5 years before I learned to roller blade myself (at the ripe old age of 44) and again last night. I think the mistake made by those rating it so lowly was in taking it seriously. It certainly didn’t take itself seriously. Not with lines like (paraphrase) [after a criminal is shot by a cop] “thank God we could take care of him here. I hate court”. Or with newspaper headlines that read “Germany buys Poland”. Or with a radio newscast describing Mexican INS agents rounding up and deporting American fruit pickers who had illegally entered their country to find work. Any sense of reality exited my mind as I watched them do everything in those skates, I, myself, having gotten hopelessly bogged down in the neutral ground trying to cross the street in my blades at City Park in New Orleans. The movie also had a refreshingly original take on the “doomed future” theme. Instead of the grim setting being a post nuclear apocalypse, we have a wasteland created, instead, by the crash of the American stock market. And this well explains the sad state of affairs (no money for police, a greatly weakened government, extensive homelessness, etc.) that is the backdrop for the film. The rollerboys seemed to be a blurry composite of all the evils of mankind since the beginning of time…racial hatred, greed megalomania, anti-semitism…you name it. The visage of the rollerboy gang materializing from the end of a dark tunnel, gliding effortlessly in white trench coats and black rollerblades, their arms swinging mightily in unison immediately called to mind goose stepping Nazis. The two undercover cops, who seemed to literally dwell in their van, making off the cuff quips about the rollerboys were a hoot. True, the acting was, at best mediocre but had it been excellent it would have spoiled the film. Occasional lapses into the melodramatic only added savor to the stew. Much of the dialog was so bad it was not only good but great. I guess this movie will remain one of my guilty pleasures. If it comes on again…I’ll watch it again. I only wish Corey Haim hadn’t grown up so they could make Rollerboys 2.
Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 35 min (95 min)
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Status Released
Rated R
Genre Action, Crime, Drama
Director Rick King
Writer W. Peter Iliff
Actors Corey Haim, Patricia Arquette, Christopher Collet
Country Japan, United States
Awards 2 nominations
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