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Author's product rating:   

Did you enjoy it?	Loved it
Story	Good
Characters / Performances	Outstanding
Special Effects	Standard
How does it compare to similar films?	Good

Advantages:	Very realistic on what happens on a average saturday
Disadvantages:	not setting a good example

Recommend to potential buyers:

yes

Full review

This film is about fooball violance other wise known as hooligansim. This film is about tommy who likes to fight other clubs and has a visious set of friends. He is part of chelsea football clubs hooligan firm. The other films of this nature are green street and I.D. This was made in 2004 and has a certificate of 18. The fights come towards the end of the film and has a big build up before that. You see them living the hooligan lifestyle of watching football, fightning other fans, getting drunk at the pub, and having a lot sex with girls. This film runs for 87 minutes and has exitement running all the the way through it. This film takes a look at the average hooligan on a saturday. I hope this film doesnt encorage children to copy the acts. With any luck it will give them the oppisite effect and make them fink why would i get involved in fight and get injured, or something along those lines

The Actors
The actors do there job very good. Not many actors could have acted this film out. its a very different film to act. In the cast there is Danny Dyer who has done a lot of work recently on football charity matches and hooligan programs on Bravo and the other main actors are Frank Harper, Tamer Hasan, Roland Manookian and Neil Maskell who are all good actors

Story
The main character Tommy johnson (danny dyer) is part of the headhunters which is chelseas hooligan firm. His best friend is Bob (neil maskell) and Zeberdee (roland manookian). He live for away days at clubs like cardiff and west ham. But most of all Millwall. His life is full of drinking, sex and fighting while he dont see much of a football being kicked. When they find out they are playing Millwall in a cup tie they cant wait to go there for a fight. Tommy Johnson eventually takes too much drugs and starts going crazy and seeing things but then by the end he gets alright and goes to fight the Millwall firm. The fight looks realistic and the director should be given credit for that. There are a few fight throughout this film one fight is aginst spurs another stoke and lastly and the biggest against millwall.

Fans of the film
This is a very popular film but does have a strict target audience. For hooligans them selves they would love it. Its perfect for them but then again any film of this nature would be perfect for them.
Critics have condemmed this film syaing it will create more and more violance on a saturday at football matches. I you wouldn't want that with tournaments like the world cup coming up.

Target Audience
Most people i know who like this film are between the age of 15 to 30 and are men. I find women dont like this film at all and for anyone to watch this film under the age of 15 is wrong and might make them copy this in the future

Personal Thoughts
I really do like this film and i think it is interesting to actually see for sure what hooligans get up to. It give you a good insight into what happens. The fights are very realistic and it is a exicing film from start to finish. I think this film is more of a documentary than a film as there is a narrator. It is diiferent to green street in many ways. If youwatch them both the two main characters are completly different. I want to see more films like this come out. They are good films.

Summary
This film is good but the verdict depends on the audience and what there taste is. I hpoe this doesn't give children ideas as i think there might be more films of this genre

The DVD extras
There are a number of extras to keep you happy theres a audio commentry to show what the actors/directors think of the scenes, theres a making of which is good for a film like this, you can see the alternate opening scene which is interesting, you can watch to fight fighting scenes again, deleted scenes are always a good thing to watch and then theres the normal trailer so the DVD has done well to get all that and make it more worth the money in shop and websites. It might have helped the sales. This also give you the right to buy and watch this if you havent already

Buy It
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