Without being entirely ignorant, there are always certain films that I anticipate seeing more than others. After the pretty dreadful Green Street, I'd be lying if I said hearing the rumours about a straight-to-dvd sequel had me, in any way, twitching in extreme anticipation.
Green Street 2 tracks the members of rival firms West Ham United and Millwall, who are now serving time in a tough prison for their fighting in the previous film.
After wasting an hour and half of my life to watch this pathetic attempt at filmmaking, I can conclude that my instincts were indeed right.
Firstly, how they can even call it a "sequel" is way beyond me, as it contains just one actor from the first film- Dave (and no, I can't remember him either). The violence is explicit, but poorly choreographed; never exciting or partly intriguing. The acting I wouldn't say is laughable, rather, it's so irritably bad that it's really made me wonder whether I have a life at all, after managing to sit through the entirety of the film and then even bother to write this review.
Oh, and get this: the prison guards decide that it's a great idea for the hooligan inmates to take part in a rival football match, with each of the winners being granted freedom to the outside world.
I shit you not.
Even more unbelievable is the way the film attempts to portray the GSE firm as a group of innocent, young men, that we're suppose to root for. "We just wanna do our time, with no trouble," says Dave. Give me a break.
There's a reason films like this go straight to DVD. But, I think Green Street 2 should, indeed, be very grateful that it got a release in that sense at all. Appalling.
[note: I wanted to give this less than one star, but Ciao wouldn't let me.] http://ww.andycarrington.co.uk
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Production Year: 2002 - Action/Adventure - Director: Vincenzo Natali - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring:Lucy Liu, David Hewlett, Anne Marie Scheffler, Joseph Scoren, Matthew Sharp, Jeremy Northam
Production Year: 1964 - Action/Adventure - Director: Cyril Endfield - Original Language: English - Classification: Parental Guidance - Starring:Stanley Baker, Jack Hawkins, Ulla Jacobsson, James Booth, Michael Caine, Nigel Green
The only thing good about the first one was the sound track! I havent seen this yet x
GJRendall 11.04.2009 17:20
Sounds pretty appalling. Wow at that football match idea. Was the writer an eight foot tall body builder or something? Someone should have voiced concerns at least.
midpikyrozziy 08.04.2009 14:03
Nice review, I thought the first film was pretty good but this was just too unbelievable and stupid to be any good. Some films just shouldn't have sequels, and I'm not looking forward to the sequel of Donnie Darko that comes out soon
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