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Green Street Hooligans (2005)

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Average Rating: 5.5/10
Reviews Counted: 61
Fresh: 28 | Rotten: 33

When it comes to the subculture of soccer thugs, Green Street Hooligans lacks sufficient insight, and instead comes off as a Fight Club knock-off.

47

Average Rating: 5.4/10
Critic Reviews: 19
Fresh: 9 | Rotten: 10

When it comes to the subculture of soccer thugs, Green Street Hooligans lacks sufficient insight, and instead comes off as a Fight Club knock-off.

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Average Rating: 3.9/5
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Movie Info

An American abroad is introduced to the heady but dangerous pleasures of violence in this powerful drama from Great Britain. Matt Buckner (Elijah Wood) is a journalism student from America who is expelled from college when his roommate sets him to take the fall after drugs are found in their dorm room. Needing time to sort out what his next move should be, Matt travels to London to visit his sister Shannon (Claire Forlani), who has married British Steve Dunham (Marc Warren). As it happens, Matt

R, 1 hr. 46 min.

Drama

Lexi Alexander, Dougie Brimson, Josh Shelov

Jun 13, 2006

$0.1M

Freestyle Releasing

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All Critics (69) | Top Critics (20) | Fresh (28) | Rotten (34) | DVD (10)

It swims and sinks in melodrama.

October 29, 2005 Full Review Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution | Comment
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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There's a good movie to be made about the violent world of British soccer, or football, as it's called on the other side of the pond. This isn't it.

October 21, 2005 Comment
Detroit Free Press
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The script is a jumble of caricatures and cliches.

October 14, 2005 Comment
Philadelphia Inquirer
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Soccer needs this movie like Georgia needed Deliverance.

October 13, 2005 Full Review Source: Washington Post | Comment
Washington Post
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It's what you thought Fight Club was going to be, before it went in a whole other (and far more interesting) direction.

October 13, 2005 Full Review Source: Arizona Republic | Comment
Arizona Republic
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Pic amply demonstrates that Alexander -- director of Johnny Flynton, 2003 Oscar nominee for dramatic short -- has the chops to bring a fresh take to onscreen rough stuff.

October 11, 2005 Full Review Source: Variety | Comment
Variety
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Hunnam e Wood exibem imensa segurança ao carregarem o filme, que também desperta nosso interesse através da análise dos motivos que levam pessoas comuns à violência das torcidas organizadas.

April 2, 2006 Comment
Cinema em Cena

Green Street Hooligans loses any credibility it might have had the minute it tries to pass off Elijah Wood as a tough guy.

December 16, 2005 Full Review Source: Deseret News, Salt Lake City | Comments (4)
Deseret News, Salt Lake City

Nothing hits harder, or with less tact, than the overriding message, that Matt is really looking for a surrogate family.

December 1, 2005 Full Review Source: Arizona Daily Star | Comment
Arizona Daily Star

At least three writers collaborated on a script that drums out loudly its themes of loyalty, honor and revenge, and the finished product dances quickly enough between cliches to make for passable entertainment.

November 18, 2005 Full Review Source: Oregonian | Comment
Oregonian

[Alexander] is a better anthropologist than dramatist and her snapshot of this culture is more revealing than the story crafted around it.

October 27, 2005 Comment
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

German kickboxer-turned-director Lexi Alexander's brutal, unsparing portrait of disaffected youth running rampant amid the football stands and terraces of jolly old England.

October 20, 2005 Full Review Source: rec.arts.movies.reviews | Comment
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Approaches the sociologically poetic sloganeering of the Smiths at Morrissey's most hooligan-lovestruck.

October 15, 2005 Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | Comment
Austin Chronicle

We learn that violence is bad, except when it feels good, or helps solve our problems.

October 14, 2005 Comment
Philadelphia Daily News
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Audience Reviews for Green Street Hooligans

Superb acting and very emotional drama. You immediately get sucked into the story. Additionally, it also has great pacing and a highly intriguing storyline. Final rating: a weak "4" from me.

July 10, 2007
CloudStrife84
Mike S

Super Reviewer

Along the same kinda lines as 'The Football Factory' but nowhere near as gritty and in your face, this film suffers from a slight case of Hollywood glitz. Not just because Elijah Wood is in it, that is one reason of course, but the violence just seems more coordinated and setup haha whilst the many British actors in

September 5, 2011
phubbs1

Super Reviewer

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