Lovable Cockney Wideboys beat kick lumps out of each other?

Rating: 2/10 (25 May 2004)

Football Factory shamelessly glorifies violence, and presents its protagonists as some sort of lovable cockney wideboys. If this is what you are looking for from a film then there are many much more watchable and funnier examples. It makes vague pretensions towards characterisation and hints at a moral dilemma within our main character's conscience.
Ultimately, the pretensions towards some sort of plot and perhaps even a moral in the film feel dubiously tacked on in order to counter accusations of glorifying violence. The fact is that the film is quite funny if you go into it expecting (literally) absolutely nothing in terms of a plot, or characterisation. However if you are easily offended, looking for some sort of substance from a film, or on a first date, i would steer well clear.