Totally americanised view of football hooliganism and UK sub culture

Rating: 2/10 (18 September 2005)

This film is cringe worthy from beginning to end. It starts off with one of the main heroes Pete and his firm shouting at another firm in the most terrible of cockney accents I've heard in a movie for a long time.
The hilarious violence starts shortly afterward, with Pete crashing over a red telephone box - if you've ever been in a red telephone, which barely exist anymore, you soon realise a tank would find problems pushing one over let alone these two wafers poncing around.
Terrible cheesy lines are rife 'it looks like a terrorist attack around here', 'that's cockney rhyming slang', all give the viewer the impression this was made for simpletons who've no idea.
We then meet the 'terrifying' GSC firm - hardly! They look like they couldn't punch out of a paper bag. That said the opposition firm led by Terry Hatcher are spot on they've got the accents right and aren't a bunch of school kids.
The film did have some good scenes and effects, although the violence tended to be that of people spitting fake blood out of their mouths at any chance.
The plot was like something out the Karate Kid, simple and well trodden. It failed to explore the comedy, whit and cheek of this group in society in anyway, and caricatured many other aspects.
As for the music, what a disaster, this could have had one of the greatest movie sound tracks in years but no they decided to skim over the wealth of brit pop, indie, dance, drum & bass etc etc. The final climax used some god awful Irish folk song which made the whole saga laughable.
Then there's Elijah - what a hard man - lol - the end scene was hilarious.
This whole film competes very well with the likes of David Brent for cringe worthiness but instead of being good in Davids place is absolutely terrible in Green Streets place.