Genre: Dramas
Starring: Kuno Becker, Stephen Dillane, Anna Friel, Marcel Iures, Sean Pertwee
The combination of button-pushing uplift, sundry sweeping helicopter shots and a bombastic score that sounds like it came on a free transfer from a Tony Scott movie proves as resistibly synthetic as the CGI-enhanced heroics on the pitch.
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No points for originality, but Goal! scores three valuable stars for its warmth and wit.
Top Critic As the opening chapter of a franchise it's somewhat disappointing.
Where Goal! really scores, however, is in the impressive football sequences, with shots from Premiership games cleverly spliced together with footage of the actors filmed in close-up.
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Top Critic Fortunately, the direction and performances are good enough to get us through the progressively hackneyed storyline.
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It is constructed of sports movie clichés but built on an unshakable foundation of earnestness.
...engaging and fun to watch, thanks mainly to Kuno Becker in the title role (he's such a nice kid, we can't help but root for him).
The action on the field won't be enough to sate the most soccer-crazed viewers.
A predictable mishmash of sports underdog cliches with a domestic release timed to capitalize on anticipation for the World Cup. Accordingly, expect plenty of elbow room at the local multiplex.
The script is about as solid as a penalty kick with a deflated ball.
A soccer-themed soap-opera that misses the net as an insipid, if inspirational, underdog tale.
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Each obstacle is brought up and then dealt with in such a rushed and perfunctory manner that you wonder they even bothered to introduce them in the first place.
... loses points for its disjointed script and fumbled field photography.
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