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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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It swims and sinks in melodrama. Oct 29, 2005 | Rating: C
It swims and sinks in melodrama.
Bob Longino
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. Oct 21, 2005 | Rating: 2/4
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.
John Monaghan
The script is a jumble of caricatures and cliches. Oct 14, 2005 | Rating: 2/4
The script is a jumble of caricatures and cliches.
Steven Rea
Soccer needs this movie like Georgia needed Deliverance. Oct 13, 2005 | Full Review…
Soccer needs this movie like Georgia needed Deliverance.
Desson Thomson
It's what you thought Fight Club was going to be, before it went in a whole other (and far more interesting) direction. Oct 13, 2005 | Rating: 3/5
It's what you thought Fight Club was going to be, before it went in a whole other (and far more interesting) direction.
Kerry Lengel
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. Oct 11, 2005
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.
Joe Leydon
One reads books about football hooligans and sees films without expecting much in the way of truth or verisimilitude. But this one made a good honest stab at it. Jan 31, 2018 | Full Review…
One reads books about football hooligans and sees films without expecting much in the way of truth or verisimilitude. But this one made a good honest stab at it.
Jeremy Clarke
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. Apr 2, 2006 | Rating: 4/5
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.
Pablo Villaça
Green Street Hooligans loses any credibility it might have had the minute it tries to pass off Elijah Wood as a tough guy. Dec 16, 2005 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review…
Green Street Hooligans loses any credibility it might have had the minute it tries to pass off Elijah Wood as a tough guy.
Jeff Vice
Nothing hits harder, or with less tact, than the overriding message, that Matt is really looking for a surrogate family. Dec 1, 2005 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
Nothing hits harder, or with less tact, than the overriding message, that Matt is really looking for a surrogate family.
Phil Villarreal
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. Nov 18, 2005 | Rating: B-
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.
Shawn Levy
[Alexander] is a better anthropologist than dramatist and her snapshot of this culture is more revealing than the story crafted around it. Oct 27, 2005 | Rating: 2.5/4
[Alexander] is a better anthropologist than dramatist and her snapshot of this culture is more revealing than the story crafted around it.
Duane Dudek
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, whilst the many British actors in the film all have rather hokey cockney accents which seem 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.
Super Reviewer
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.
Green Street Hooligans is one of those rare films where we get are glad we watched it and is probably Elijah Woods best performance (besides LOTR).
Being a FOOTBALL fan, I love this movie; tt's Fight Club meets football. The only flaw of this film is Elijah Wood. His acting skills are very poor and I feel they could have done a better job with casting.
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