Green Street Hooligans (2005)
45 %
Reviews Counted: 58 Fresh: 26 Rotten:32 Average Rating: 5.5/10
Consensus:
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.
Runtime: 1 hr 49 mins
Theatrical Release: Sep 9, 2005 Limited
Box Office: $122,300
Synopsis: GREEN STREET HOOLIGANS: In 1988, British director Alan Clarke set a high benchmark for movies about soccer hooliganism with a brutal, unflinching drama called THE FIRM. Few dared follow in Clarke's estimable footsteps. But filmmaker Lexi Alexander, who joined a gang of soccer thugs during... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Elijah Wood, Charlie Hunnam, Claire Forlani, Marc Warren, Henry Goodman
Director: Lexi Alexander
Screenwriter: Lexi Alexander
Producer: Deborah Del Prete, Gigi Pritzker, Donald Zuckerman
Screenwriter: Dougie Brimson, Josh Shelov
Screenwriter: Lexi Alexander
Producer: Deborah Del Prete, Gigi Pritzker, Donald Zuckerman
Screenwriter: Dougie Brimson, Josh Shelov
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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.
04/02/06
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02/09/06
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Green Street Hooligans loses any credibility it might have had the minute it tries to pass off Elijah Wood as a tough guy.
12/16/05
Nothing hits harder, or with less tact, than the overriding message, that Matt is really looking for a surrogate family.
12/01/05
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.
11/18/05
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[Alexander] is a better anthropologist than dramatist and her snapshot of this culture is more revealing than the story crafted around it.
10/27/05
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.
10/21/05
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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.
10/20/05
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10/15/05
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Approaches the sociologically poetic sloganeering of the Smiths at Morrissey's most hooligan-lovestruck.
10/15/05
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We learn that violence is bad, except when it feels good, or helps solve our problems.
10/14/05
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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.
10/13/05
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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.
10/11/05
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Goes soft and mushy in personal terms even as it ratchets up the violence and decibel level.
10/09/05
The world of football riots seems rife with potential for the big screen, but Green Street Hooligans only periodically rises to it.
10/08/05
I wouldn’t exactly say I liked this movie, but I guess you could say they do a good job capturing this element of society. The violence is appalling, extreme, and relentless.
10/08/05
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