British film at its best

Rating: 8/10 (2 June 2006)

Football Factory is with out exception one of the best British films for years. As always the acting, down to the smallest character is spot on. Danny Dyer shows he is the cream of British talent playing yet another diverse role while an appearance from Frank Harper adds the needed 'grit' to the film.
Now as a football fan (an English one at that) I have grown up through the 80's and 90's when all the trouble was at its height. As a kid I also went to hundreds of football matched and witnessed the violence first hand. What football factory sets out to show is that these 'firms' don't set out to randomly beat up people in the street, they attend pre-arranged fights between like minded people who might even work together the rest of the time. These are people that love a row, it's not about football, that's just what brings them together and gives them an identity. This film shows the real side of things, not the one portrayed by a clueless media.
Even if you don't like football you must watch this film, its manages to portray things in a way only British film can, it doesn't glamorise anything it just tells it as it is.