Prayer of the Rollerboys Director: Rick King Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Product Group: DVD Release Date: 1999-06-22 Buy from Amazon

Customer Reviews: Total numer of reviews: 16 Average rating: 4.0 "Unwittingly relevant" Rick King's 1991 juvenile delinquent flick unwittingly became relevant following the Columbine massacre. I don't know if it was an influence on those disturbed minds, but the Rollerboys gang wears trenchcoats and threaten the "day of the rope", when revenge will be at hand. This eerie quality aside, King's pulp teenage thriller shoots above the mark and deserves a second look. King has made a career of making thrillers that step beyond the studio-approved formulaic scripts. In Hard Choices ('84) the director brought together the unlikely combination of John Sayles, J.T. Walsh and Spalding Gray for a satisfying low-profile crime drama. The Killing Time ('87) and A Passion to Kill ('94) are further examples of his use of psychological motivation to drive the characters beyond the scripts' pale description. In Forced March ('90) King delved deeper into his preoccupation with identity with the Hungarian production wherein an actor's life and the part he plays- a poet/victim of the holocaust- begin to blur. Released in 1991, Prayer of the Rollerboys documents a pause in american life between the lotus eating 80's and the come-down of the 90's-- the information blitz of the internet and the no-one-is-safe fear of domestic terrorism. However, beyond the analysis, Roller Boys is simply a lot of fun. Even Pauline Kael was said to have quietly admired it. "This Movie Rocks" Prayer of the Rollerboys was one of the best movies. The movie all around is about (Haim) an undercover cop, trying to make a better life for his little brother. Also trying to bust the Rollerboys for drugs (mist). This movie kept me very entertained. great soundtrack, great actors, and the plot line was good. It wasn't like all the rest of the movies out there. It was a different story and I think thats what I liked best about it. ITs different. I could watch this movie everyday for the rest of my life, and never get sick of it. "Very Fun Movie!" despite some nasty reviews i've read so far, i think that this is a great movie. It's fun, has an original storyline, and the actors performed very well, particularly Morgan Weisser (Bullwinkle) and Christopher Collet (Gary Lee)....The movie has some great skating sequences and they make you want to skate along with them.... "Please stop the pain, but buy this film" Well well well, how do you review a film which has obviously been written and directed by a chimp. And not one of those cool rollerskate chimps who smoke cigars, but a stinky Gregory chimp. This film is amazing you have to buy it. The premise of the story revolves around a caravan that mixes stuff. Enter Haim who skates around for a bit, followed by his friends whom all wear the same horrible jackets. The jackets designed to make them look menecing and cool, look as though a blind cat nailed to a skateboard made them. This film is the best. Where else can you see Haim ( quite litrally as he is a wash out ) go around on "ultra cool in 91" roller blades trying to stop a group of mullets and their caravan. No one in this film deserves to win the day, and as the film continues you wish someone would put a stick on the floor so they all fall and break their noses. You must buy this excellent film. Much better than titanic and gladiator "What a film! Better than Star wars and it has Corey Haim in" Well well what an amazing spectical of rubbish. Who wrote this film, probably Greg Hughes, and what a magpie he is. This film is the best film ever for three reasons...first it has Corey Haim in it, remember him? no didnt think so. Well he was big in the eighties and probably the greatest actor ever.Second its about a group of "roller boys" who dont seem to do much except skate around in jackets, which look like they were made by a blind chimp with no arms, (oh except they push drugs). Thirdly it has a fantastic plot involving a caravan filled with machines that mix stuff. This film is the best!!!! Corey if you read this...ohhh what am i thinking you cant afford the internet..P.s greg is a magpie