Rotten
Unlike Rollerball or Death Race 2000, it serves up the carnage with Biblical solemnity.
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
The Blood of Heroes
When juggers play there is only one way to live - THE HARD WAY!
1989 · 1h 40m · R
Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
Directed by
David Webb Peoples
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The Blood of Heroes
Overview
Set in a futuristic world where the only sport that has survived in a wasted society is the brutal game known as jugging. Sallow, the leader of a rag-tag team, has played in the main Leagues before, but was cast out because of indiscretions with a lady. Now joined by a talented newcomer, Kidda, an ambitious young peasant girl, he and his team find they have one last chance for glory.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
13%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Plot development is slim. Much of running time is given over to the game itself, which seems to have no rules except that the winning team places the skull of a dog atop a pointed stick.
Variety Staff, Variety
Fresh
An unusually successful film of its kind, a good, lean variation on the post-apocalypse adventure-thriller that looks into the future to see the Dark Ages of the past.
Vincent Canby, New York Times
Rotten
The Blood of Heroes is a multimillion-dollar movie with about as much plot and depth as your average arcade game, but it's never quite as involving.
Richard Harrington, Washington Post
Rotten
There's little to look at and nothing worth hearing. Even the game itself is a drag.
Time Out
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