Green Street Hooligans (2005)
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.
Average Rating: 5.5/10
Critic Reviews: 20
Fresh: 10 | 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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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
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Cast
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Elijah Wood
Matt Buckner -
Charlie Hunnam
Pete Dunham -
Claire Forlani
Shannon Dunham -
Marc Warren
Steve Dunham -
Leo Gregory
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Henry Goodman
Carl Buckner -
Geoff Bell
Tommy Hatcher -
Rafe Spall
Swill -
Kieran Bew
Ike -
Ross McCall
Dave -
Francis Pope
Ned -
Christopher Hehir
Keith -
Terence Jay
VanHolden Jeremy
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All Critics (69) | Top Critics (22) | Fresh (28) | Rotten (34) | DVD (10)
It swims and sinks in melodrama.
Top CriticThere'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.
The script is a jumble of caricatures and cliches.
Soccer needs this movie like Georgia needed Deliverance.
It's what you thought Fight Club was going to be, before it went in a whole other (and far more interesting) direction.
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.
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.
Green Street Hooligans loses any credibility it might have had the minute it tries to pass off Elijah Wood as a tough guy.
Nothing hits harder, or with less tact, than the overriding message, that Matt is really looking for a surrogate family.
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.
[Alexander] is a better anthropologist than dramatist and her snapshot of this culture is more revealing than the story crafted around it.
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.
Approaches the sociologically poetic sloganeering of the Smiths at Morrissey's most hooligan-lovestruck.
We learn that violence is bad, except when it feels good, or helps solve our problems.
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Super Reviewer
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 the film all have rather hokey cockney accents which are rather forced, some not all.
The film centres around West Ham United Firm 'GSE: Green Street Elite' although the real firm is called 'ICF: Inner City Firm' and follows the guys around as they go to matches and plan on fights with rival firms. Nothing much different from other 'firm' flicks but the added plot of Yankee Wood who slowly fits in against his UK based sisters wishes and grows to enjoy the lifestyle.
No one really that well known in the film accept Wood who is TOTALLY out of place in this type of flick but I guess that's the idea right. Only thing is you simply can't see Wood ever getting tough enough to do what he does in the film, never in a month of Sundays.
Good entertainment but using allot of artistic license and second best to 'The Football Factory' and 'The Firm'....if your into these types of films.
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- Pete Dunham: And for fuck's sake, stop sayin' soccer.
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- Matt Buckner: I was studying history.
- Pete Dunham: I teach history!
- Matt Buckner: You teach?
- Pete Dunham: Yes, cheeky slag.
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- Steve Dunham: There's more to life than all this.
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- Matt Buckner: What are you talkin' about, baseball is a girl's game? The Red Sox has a guy that pitches the ball over 90 miles per hour!
- Pete Dunham: Who cares? All that means is that he can have a wank faster than you.
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- Matt Buckner: You know the best part? It isn't knowing that your friends have your back. It's knowing that you have your friends' back.
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Foreign Titles
- Green Street (UK)
- Hooligans (FR)
