Unlike Rollerball or Death Race 2000, it serves up the carnage with Biblical solemnity.

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.

There's little to look at and nothing worth hearing. Even the game itself is a drag.

In addition to the lack of water, power and food, this hideous future is desperately short of words and is reduced to recycling plots.