The Firm

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Daniel Mays
Yeti

Camille Coduri
Shel

Calum MacNab
Dom

Paul Anderson
Bex

Ebony Gilbert
Justine

Doug Allen
Trigger

Joanne Matthews
Suze

Ben Shockley

Eddie Webber
Bob

Richie Campbell
Snowy

Nick Love
Director

Nick Love
Screenwriter

Allan Niblo
Producer

Rupert Preston
Executive Producer

James Richardson
Producer

Nigel Williams
Executive Producer

Laura Rossi
Original Music

Matt Gray
Cinematographer

Stuart Gazzard
Film Editor

Des Hamilton
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• Nov 16, 2012

  Expected allot more from this film, I was expecting a better version of The Football Factory after better reviews but it was bland and boring and never has any plot to keep the film going forward.
  Jamie C Super Reviewer
• Aug 21, 2010

  20/08/2010 I enjoyed the hard-knock dialogue, it was quite entertaining to listen to. Well, the fact is it's not good morally, but it's a good flick to see why it's not good to do what it is they did, you know wha' I mean? Another one of those "done before" films but hey, same drink different bottle and label. All I know is that it's a brutal flick with maybe a message, maybe, who knows what they're really trying to teach and encourage. Full of violence and wit, dudes with no care in the world may give it a fiver, but I still have my screws. Not a fiver for me but a definite alright watch. With witty dialogues that pack as much of a punch as the brutality in the story.
  EightThirty . Super Reviewer
• Mar 05, 2010

  It feels really disappointed after watching this movie.. what i aspect to be a great movie like its predecessor Green Street Hooligan melt like an ice cream.. green street hooligan far more interesting than this,the plot cover every way,from life ,pride, conflict, fight, brave and humor.. i think the main plot here was about the football fan life but its failed as it was too straight forward,directly into some kind of hooligan-wannabe but in immature way.. the fight was interesting but other than that its awful,no 'soul' in this movie that make it interesting.. it doesn't focus on what a football fan for even about hooligan-wannabe but more into gang fight, territory,revenge and power.. In Gary Oldman's Clive 'Bex' Bissell, Clarke's 1988 original features one of the all-time great screen villains: an upwardly mobile Loadsamoney with a sociology A-level and a Stanley knife. Reaping the benefits of the Lawson boom, this sociopathic estate agent and family man is seen to be a breed apart from the stereotyped bovver boy of the previous decade But The Firm isn't only a superb character study. Above all, it's a damning indictment of grass roots Thatcherism turned brutal, tribal and nationalistic. Bex's baseball bat-wielding Inter City Firm is just the flip side of an altogether more ruthless and democratically elected 'firm'. For Bex, Trigger and Snowy read Thatcher, Tebbit and Hesseltine. So, given the class, calibre and integrity of Clarke's output - and given Nick Love's - we haven't felt such a sinking feeling about a remake since Neil LaBute released The Wicker Man Mark II. A reaction the director himself anticipates: "I know there is an element of cynical people who are taking issue with the fact I've remade The Firm." It's a fair cop, Nick. "But I'm hoping there's enough of a different angle and that we've taken this into different territory." You mean a territory that isn't populated by geezers, gangsters and a string of 1980s club hits? Ah. Love's version backdates the action to 1984, a few years earlier than the original. So out go the quiffs and stripy yuppie shirts, and in come wedge-cuts and sportswear: a day-glo riot of Fila tracksuits, Adidas trainers, Pringle jumpers and Tacchini tops. The kind of clobber 17-year-old Dominic (Calum McNab) eagerly sports in his infatuated attempts to please West Ham firm leader Bex (Paul Anderson). The hapless lad is soon pitched into the violent world of Saturday turf wars with old rivals Millwall, discovering the hard way that what might look exciting on telly is acutely painful in real life. Love has dutifully re-staged a few key scenes from the original. The rest is fat; less a remake of Alan Clarke even, than a Football Factory rematch. Certainly, the entire point of Clarke's drama is anathema to the director. "I think if you get bogged down in the politics behind it all, it would play less as entertainment," he says. Instead, to please multiplex audiences, "which is what I'm aiming this at, you've got to have big fight scenes and lots of loud music". Thus, deliberately shorn of any socio-political context (although the West Ham-Millwall kick-up of August 2009 has been an unfortunately well-timed gift, promotion-wise), this shallow and pointless remake settles for rehashing Love's single idea, familiar from his previous three pictures, in which a young, weedy, working-class guy gets sucked into a violently glamorous world led by a charismatic father figure who eventually turns round and bites him, before our hero escapes with a few scrapes and bruises. Whatever demons the former middle-class rude boy is trying to exorcise, he clearly hasn't achieved catharsis yet. This is less The Firm than 'The Formula'. Set in the 1980s, Dom is a teenager who finds himself drawn into the charismatic world of football 'casuals,influenced by the firm's top boy, Bex. Accepted by the gang for his fast mouth and sense of humor, Dom soon becomes one the boys. But as Bex and his gang clash with rival firms across the country and the violence spirals out of control, Dom realizes he wants out - until he learns it's not that easy to simply walk away.
  Sergio E Super Reviewer
• Sep 20, 2009

  nick love tackles football hooligism once again after the interesting football factory, and based on the 1988 tv movie of the same name starring gary oldman, taking a bit of a diferent aproach,as that charactor is still a focus,but mainly focusing ona young lad getting in with the gang, superb 80s setting, where bright coloured, tracksuits were the rage. andthe dresssenceis a major part of the story, bex the leader, being guy who sees it as a statement, dom sees this, a young lad being taken in and following his ways, a engageing story following doms rise and the crews dealings with a rival firm, all told nicely the80s faithfully recreated,and a superb 80s soundtrack, all actors give it there best,and, when violence urupts its engageing, not the most violent of the football hooligism films to come from the u.k,but for me overall one of the best
  scott g Super Reviewer

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