Goal! (2006)
Runtime: 1 hr 58 mins
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Kuno Becker, Stephen Dillane, Anna Friel, Marcel Iures, Sean Pertwee
Story: Mike Jeffries, Adrian Butchart
Producer: Lawrence Bender
Composer: Graeme Revell
DVD Info
Release:
Nov 21, 2006
Blu-ray Disc Features:
- Keep Case
- Widescreen - 2.40
Audio:
- Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround - English, French, Spanish
- Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Uncompresse - English
- Subtitles - English (SDH), French, Spanish - Optional
Additional Release Material:
- Audio Commentary - Danny Cannon - Director; Dick Clement - Writer; Ian La Frenais - Writer
- Featurette - BEHIND THE PITCH - How The Film's Intense Soccer Action Came Together Using Real Premiership Matches And The Actors
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Reviews
It is constructed of sports movie clichés but built on an unshakable foundation of earnestness.
...engaging and fun to watch, thanks mainly to Kuno Becker in the title role (he's such a nice kid, we can't help but root for him).
The action on the field won't be enough to sate the most soccer-crazed viewers.
The combination of button-pushing uplift, sundry sweeping helicopter shots and a bombastic score that sounds like it came on a free transfer from a Tony Scott movie proves as resistibly synthetic as the CGI-enhanced heroics on the pitch.
A predictable mishmash of sports underdog cliches with a domestic release timed to capitalize on anticipation for the World Cup. Accordingly, expect plenty of elbow room at the local multiplex.
The script is about as solid as a penalty kick with a deflated ball.
A soccer-themed soap-opera that misses the net as an insipid, if inspirational, underdog tale.
Each obstacle is brought up and then dealt with in such a rushed and perfunctory manner that you wonder they even bothered to introduce them in the first place.
... loses points for its disjointed script and fumbled field photography.
There isn't one three-dimensional character or convincing line of dialogue, and the plot is simple-minded to the point of imbecility.
Goal! is filled with cringe-inducing scenes we've seen before many, many times.
Heck, we even call soccer by another name, christening it football even though foot actually seems to touch ball maybe a dozen times a match, if that.
While the movie is a thoroughly generic sports movie, there’s no denying that it works as a rousing example of the genre.
The father-son tension comes to a head when -- as must happen in an inspirational sports drama -- Santiago gets his big chance.
... it is good and caring work, with more human detail than we expect.
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