get a beer to put on your black eye

Rating: Null/10 (20 January 2005)

--- i had the pleasure of seeing this film the same week I saw 'Once We Were Warriors'--- which nearly topped the day I saw 'Deliverance' and 'Straw Dogs'--- fortunately this film is the only one without a rape scene among the ones mentioned. Brutal and thuggish ---reminicent of 'Basketball Diaries'--- this movie has nothing to do with football. The only time you see football being played is when it is in the background of a verbal leading to fist fight. This movie confirms my belief that the U.K. is still far from the gun violence of the U.S. I outright laughed when one of the characters brought a starter pistol to a giant mob fight--- what a wuss. The indefatigable nature of many of the characters impressed me--- non-stop trouble making. The film worked pretty well capturing the action--- fairly straightforward and narrative. There is also a great scene of one of the main character's grandfather smoking a fatty---- end.