Missed out on some important things

Rating: 5/10 (31 August 2006)

Hooligans has a good way of showing how hooliganism is in Britain. But the movie really lacks of some of the major issues that involves in hooliganism.
It shows a band of friends who will do anything for each other and never desert each other. Who in the name of their football club Westham and their firm GSE, will do anything to protect their rep. The movie shows how the hooligans are not just the typical violent offender, who will attack an old lady if they had the chance. The movie informs that the fights the hooligans have are arranged and only involve those who seek to fight as well.
But there is more to hooliganism than the movie shows. There are a lot of drugs involved in the football violence environment and most hooligan firms are right winged, which this movie has chosen to show. The movie doesn't show what happens on the away trips the GSE have. For example on buses or trains. The British hooligans also listen to a lot of British rock and pop, and many come from the lower working class. I think that the Football Factory gives a better perspective of what happens in the hooligan environment. Football factory has a real British touch to it, where as Hooligans is a bit too Hollywood for my taste.