The most comically bad portrayal of English soccer violence ever

Rating: 1/10 (11 September 2005)

'Cor Bloimey Guvner! I've Been Twatted By Frodo!' In a nutshell, Elijah Wood's character, a Harvard journalism undergraduate gets expelled and decides to go to London and immediately gets himself embroilled and accepted into the murky world of East End football violence - and guess what? He likes it.
The clear problem is that you could never envisage in a million years the real West Ham firm ever accepting someone like Wood's American tourist character into their fold.
Even worse is Charlie Hunnam's cockney accent. This is atrocious - and Hunnam hasn't got the excuse of being an American actor - he's English. When he bursts into song at the 'rub-a-dub', I expected him to grasp his lapels and give us a rendition of 'Chim Chimeney'. Even Dick Van Dyke would cringe at Hunnam's dialectically challenged acting.
This film was so bad, I found it hilarious. The entire premise of the movie is comical. No-one will be offended because the plot is so fantastically absurd.
If you want to see a more gritting portrayal of West Ham's least finest, go watch 'The Firm' on DVD.