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02/09/06
Green Street Hooligans (2005)
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Reviews Counted: 57 Fresh: 26 Rotten:31 Average Rating: 5.5/10
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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.
Runtime: 1 hr 49 mins
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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09/12/05
Charlie Hunnam turns in an utterly dreadful, line-mangling, squirm-inducing performance (reputedly redubbed, but still atrocious), whilst the voice-over narration is staggeringly appalling.
09/12/05
A well-intentioned but ultimately calamitous attempt to analyse the so-called 'English disease.'
09/06/05
Top Critic
A colossal misstep at every turn; the sort of film bound to appeal more to one who knows not a thing about football and the UK than one with even the slightest knowledge.
09/04/05
Authenticity lends a sharp edge to what would otherwise be yet another gritty drama about British yob culture.
08/03/05
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06/03/06
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
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
[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
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
Top Critic
Approaches the sociologically poetic sloganeering of the Smiths at Morrissey's most hooligan-lovestruck.
10/15/05
We learn that violence is bad, except when it feels good, or helps solve our problems.
10/14/05
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