Green Street 3: Never Back Down

Plot synopsis:
Danny Harvey was once the leader of the Green Street Elite, a group of hooligans supporting their beloved West Ham United. However, grown tired of the lifestyle, he leaves home and sets up shop as a mixed martial arts gym owner in Northern Ireland. After being confronted by some Irish goons for some protection money, Danny beats the goons up and tells them if their boss ever sends them again, he will find him and handle it. Danny's new life is shattered when he learns his younger brother Joey has been killed in a hooligan match.
Returning home, Danny meets up with Victor, an old friend who has since become a policeman. Victor tells Danny not to get involved and that he will handle the manner of Joey's death. When Danny goes to the Abbey, the local pub the Green Street Elite hang out at, he finds himself infatuated with barkeep Molly and meets up with GSE members Gilly and Big John. Danny wants answers as to who killed Joey. When they tell him that Joey had become somewhat of a rebel hooligan and challenged the wrong team out of spite, he was killed. Danny decides to rejoin the GSE much to the chagrin on Victor. However, Victor and Danny make a deal to cooperate with each other to find out who killed Joey, but they keep it on the down low.
Danny soon learns that the rules of hooliganism has changed. He learns the hard way when he arrives with the GSE at a game between West Ham and Tottenham. He breaks a bottle over a Tottenham hooligan's head and is arrested, only to be let go a few miles from the arena. When Gilly informs Danny of the new rules, a fight breaks out outside the Abbey between the GSE and Tottenham hooligans. Danny learns that there are now organized fights between hooligans, in teams of five. Danny decides to use his knowledge of mixed martial arts to train the members of the GSE for the organized fights. Meanwhile, as Victor continues his investigation of Joey's death, he is constantly finding himself being harassed by his superior.
Danny and the GSE one day sees the Millwall team, led by the towering Mason. As Millwall easily destroys their opponents, Mason taunts Danny about Joey on numerous occasions. With a tournament between the teams happening, Danny continues to train the GSE and soon, the GSE begin to take out the competition. As they rise in the rankings, Mason begins to see the GSE as a potential threat. Meanwhile, when Molly catches Danny talking with Victor, she confronts him. Danny tells Molly that Victor is trying to help him find Joey's murderer. Molly, still feeling betrayed, breaks up with Danny. When Danny leaves, Mason tells him to get in. Mason tells Danny that Gilly is the one who killed Joey because of his reckless behavior. When Danny beats up Gilly, it is revealed that Gilly knows who killed Joey. Gilly tells Danny that it was Mason who killed him.
When Victor is forced to meet with his boss, it is revealed that his boss is in fact Mason, who relieves Victor of his duties. The finals in the tournament pits the GSE against Millwall. Hours before the fight, Danny sees a drunk Victor, who tells Danny of him losing his job. Danny tells Victor that he knows who killed Joey and will need his help in taking Millwall on. That night, in a caged arena in the middle of a soccer field, Victor is stunned to learn that his boss is the leader of Millwall and the one who killed Joey. Danny, Victor, and the GSE do their best to take out Millwall with the only ones left being Danny and Mason. Mason's overpowering Danny but Danny gets a second wind and eventually Danny does a flying drop kick sending Mason outside of the cage. The police arrive and arrest Mason while back at the Abbey, the GSE celebrate their victory as the number one hooligan team in the city.

Tags: revenge, flashback

Review:
The truth is that this part of the trilogy Green Street is not like the previous movies.
This film doesn't care about the violence between the football fans and its bad consequences.
The movie is just showing us some people, who are training to compete in an underground fighting tournament.
Of course the leading actor is looking for revenge about his brother's murder, but the viewer doesn't really care about it.I enjoyed a lot Scott Adkins in the movie.
I prefer him with tattoos, beards and more wild style (I'm talking about Yuri Boyka in Undisputed 2, 3) but he was enough good here too.
I like his style of fighting and the way he trains his team in this movie.
Definitely, there is a lot of fighting scenes and that's why this is not a dull movie.If you are looking for an action movie with people kicking some asses all the time, this film is a good choice, without thinking.
But if you want to see a drama like Green Street Hooligans 1, you won't be satisfied..
STAR RATING: ***** Saturday Night **** Friday Night *** Friday Morning ** Sunday Night * Monday MorningDanny (Scott Adkins) turned his back on football violence long ago, and now devotes his life to mixed martial arts fighting, until he learns of the death of his little brother.
But along the way, he finds everything is not as it seems.More 'repellent, brain-numbing bilge' then...obviously the first, direct to DVD sequel to 2005's Green Street did well enough that some bright spark decided a second instalment was needed, with martial arts star Scott Adkins in the lead role.
Directed by James Nunn, who previously helmed the infinitesimally superior Tower Block, there is at least a little more meat on the bones and less of a boorish hooliganism love in here, but it still can't help but feel like a meaningless, decidedly odd way to spend film making money.As others have noted, it seems to have moved away from the original street corner/back alley street fighting and seems to focus more on professional looking fighting (which may explain Adkins in the lead role), with constant references to 'how it's all a lot more organized and sophisticated' now, which further shows how far from the original source material it's strayed.
It's filled, as well, with plenty of laughable slow motion, opera drenched 'men marching in to battle' moments and Rocky wannabe training montages.
Scott Adkins has to be more picky in his choice of movies.
First of all, I have to say that I haven't seen the first two movies, and I don't know if I have missed anything.
I don't think I can even this review as containing a spoiler, because this kind of story has been known and predictable since the good old days of Bruce Lee.But there are many plot holes.
We don't know what's the point of the fight at the beginning of the movie.
and some other "we don't know"s.Scott Adkins' acting is acceptable, though not an Al Pacino.
The saucy girl who is done by Scott wasn't bad either, she was, however, casted for something else as you know, not for her acting.Regarding the fight scenes, we have almost none of them till the middle of the movie (except for the short meaningless fight at the beginning of the film).
The final fight is surely the best one in the whole movie.All in all, it's quite an average flick, but Scott can be very higher than that.
I hope he gets more picky in his choice of movies and makes better ones in the future with all the talent we know of him.
There are more cut scenes of them training than talking about football and fighting.
I had a felling i was watching rocky origins or something like that.
If you would like to watch rocky 4 or 5 with worst acting and less interesting scenes then watch this movie if not don't waste your time.
You cant even compere it to first green street movie its like you are watching something else.
I don't get why didn't they stick with that kind of thing and now when they saw that they did it wrong (talking about 2nd part) they tried to get back on feet, but failed miserably (this movie) so sad.
I enjoyed the film, a lot more than i thought i would.
BUT they could have done this film with no connection to the Green Street name.
I would have respected it a lot more, but none the less it was a fun film.
It had good acting (i was surprised by this, i always expect a load of rubbish with these types of films) The story was solid and got me engaged in the story.
The choreography of the fights were good, not great but it still looked and felt like a fight even with all the spinney tricks that you would not expect in a film about British football hooligans were there main HQ is a pub, My rating would be a 6 because i know many films that are better that i have rated 8's and 9's but 6 seems low so for this i rate a 7.
I think it has earned that extra star for surprising me after i went in to it expecting another rubbish money grab film..
Part 1 was the best but part 2 failed big time now we got a sequel in name only but a worthy reboot in any sense.
the fights were plenty and if u are in to films like "undisputed" franchise and "never back down" movies then this is for you especially if u love scot.
scot is more known for his supporting roles in van damme and stallone films but he has a bunch solo decent films of his own like this one and the undisputed films and "close range" get also to see his latest gem "the accident man" which is one of his best..
When it is being considered about the movie i can clearly point out the fact that this is not totally a bad movie.
But when it is being considered about the actor ( Scott Adkins) I would state the fact that it is some certain waste of talents.
Actually he is one of the best martial artists that i have ever seen in my life who performed mind blowing action in Movies like Undisputed.
Within this movie it does not have that much of action.
When it is being considered about the movie i feel that it is better if the director is has paid some serious attention about the dialog & action sequence of the movies.
The original Green St didn't need a sequel but we got one all the same and to be fair STAND YOUR GROUND was watchable down to the fact it was unintentionally funny .
There's no reason what so ever for the words " Green " " Street " or 3 to prefix NEVER BACK DOWN and in reality could easily be a star vehicle for Jean Claude Van Damme since it revolves around martial arts rather than unsophisticated fists and boots The need to showcase martial arts is what the film concentrates on and as other people have pointed out explanation and exposition is sacrificed to show the protagonists fighting skill .
From the outset we get a dialogue free sequence that ends with a couple of heavies getting a good slapping .
In short it's a film of style over substance that won't appeal to anyone who is after a dramatic movie.
I actually liked this a lot better then the second movie......
as this felt more like a REAL sequel to first movie.
(There are still not connections to first or sequel, it just another stand alone movie in the series)This movie about old firm lead who decided come back to his old ways after he get called that younger brother as been killed in one of the fights.
I liked fact the show flashback of him and brother talking in black and white, I thought that good idea and add some thing to movie.There were sometimes, I felt like I was watching bits rocky at times, with all training scenes, which kind of make movie a bit more slower pace in some places.Adkins who back to his firm and get there Firm back on top, as battles everyone which each firm.very weekend.
There some okay fighting, here and there but there were lot high kick and kung fu going on in this movie.
And there were some normal fights, which was decent, some fight don't that long at time and some fights feel end in a blink of a eye.There one or two turns in story that liked, which I thought, it didn't really add much to the rest of the plot/movie5/10.
Scott Adkins brother gets killed by some tasty football hooligan, so he comes home, says bye to him, gives his mum a hug, has a cup of tea, and then enlists some minor British actors to join his firm, and maybe catch the beggars who killed his brother.These Football hooligan films are now being released every week, and even though you shouldn't watch them, you can't help but carry on turning them on, laughing at the poor dialogue and the silly use of swearing.My favourite part of these types of movie is having the old school bloke from a firm ages ago, wearing the brown coat, having the short grey hair, and saying 'tasty' a lot, very realistic.But to be honest, if Adkins wasn't in this, I wouldn't have bothered.
If your not a true action movie fan from the eighties and nineties, you may have recognised him from The Legend Of Hercules, or the on who gets killed by Statham in Expendables 2.To every one else, he's a phenomenal action star, holding his own against Van Damme, and resurrecting the direct to Blu Ray action movie with Ninja.But sadly, it's just another silly football movie badly hiding the fact that it's copying everything from Rocky IV, bar the 'change' speech at the end.The fight scenes are unrealistic, the score is way too jolly, and even Adkins is tolerable, he cannot save this film.A huge disappointment.
This movie rocks, plus it has...get ready for this - SIX training montages!.
Searching for answers about his brother's murder, Danny (Adkins) returns to Green Street and his old Firm (apparently a collection of soccer hooligans who support a certain team) after some time away.
If it's one thing the GSE, or Green Street Elite, like to do, it's brawl.
So he takes second in command, Gilly (Doolan), and whips him and the Firm into shape with a comprehensive training regimen.
Meanwhile, Danny and DCI Jones (Ansah) are at odds with how to deal with murder and hooliganism in the Firm (s).
In order to get close to the truth, Danny has to now fight in brutal, no-holds-barred group Punchfighting free-for-alls with various other UK Firms.
We loved Green Street 3, and we're happy that the franchise was re-purposed from an Elijah Wood drama to a Scott Adkins Punchfighter in two easy steps.
Anyway, GS3 is everything this kind of movie should be, and perhaps just a bit more.
That's just one reason why GS3 delivers the goods in spades.Notably, GS3 would totally work as a drama if all the fighting was taken out.
It has that gray-skies, "kitchen sink"-style drama the British are so good at - what we call Brit Grit - it just so happens that they added Punchfighting and brawling to the mix, to excellent effect.
Fan favorite Scott Adkins is in his element and in top form, and the rest of the cast is top-notch as well.
The movie even ends on a freeze-frame.
We haven't seen this many training montages since Rocky IV (1985).
We love a good training montage, and we give the movie a lot of credit for having the guts to do this and not caring what anybody thinks.
If the music wasn't good and we weren't invested in the story and Scott Adkins wasn't involved, it might not have worked, but it totally does.
Only in the UK, we guess.So wipe away your depression, grab a few pints, and enter the Punch-brawling (yet another new term?) world of Green Street 3.
Scott Adkins the movie?.
This was even worse than Green Street 2 and that was pretty bad.
I did however enjoy Scott Adkins in this movie.
I did prefer him as Yuri Boyka (The most complete fighter in the world) and this was nowhere near that performance however a few nifty moves but him at-least a little watchable in the movie.The football is just a tiny background on this movie which was what Green Street was all about.
They should of left Green Street out of this movie and just made one of those low budget fighting movies we see every year..
The astonishing performance of Scott Adkins in Undisputed 3 (2010) solidly established him as the most charismatic of the current group of Seagal/Van Damme wannabees, and "the" one to watch.
Well, there is an exception to every rule, and Green Street 3 is that exception.
Before the credits roll, two thugs walk into a gym and pick a fight with the owner, Adkins, reasons unknown.
The resulting martial arts action lasts about 30 seconds and ends with both hoods on the floor.
It is also the very last time in the entire film the viewer will feel as though anything worthwhile is taking place on screen.
Perhaps the big giveaway was that even die-hard fans of Green Street 1 (actually a very solid movie) were unaware there was ever a "Green Street 2." So, the arrival of GS3, even with the aforementioned Adkins (whose career, we verily believe, will survive this film) was clearly Hubris on the part of the producers, dragging the corpse of an already-dead franchise right onto the outskirts of zombie-town.
Adkin's character learns that his brother died, under mysterious circumstances, in one such fight and sets about finding justice by inserting himself directly into the action.
Even the final fight scene, where Adkins gets to go nuclear on the guy who actually killed his brother, is shot as though the director was still debating whether the film was meant to be action or social satire.
Adkins' Manchester accent is acceptable, but if he had used his wonderful Russian growl (Boyko in Undisputed) the film would have been that much more interesting.
Green Street 3: Never Back Down.
Was there need for a third film in this dreary franchise?
the bigger question is how on earth they got Scott Adkins in it?!
I guess if you like violent rumbles between large groups of moronic football 'fans' then you might get a kick outta this.
Of course I use the word fans in a very loose sense as we all know its about footie hooligans.The plot is merely a replay of the first two films, more excuses for cockney battles in the street.
its actually about one young hooligan getting killed and his brother comes back to London to sort it out.
When I say sort it out...I mean find the culprits and beat the hell outta them with his hooligan buddies (his firm), so yes actually it is the same.So as Adkins is the main character here you may have already guessed that martial arts will be involved...and you'd be right.
Although its not a full on martial arts fest as you'd expect from Adkins, its still mainly a large old school ruck but with the added extra of the odd martial arts moves.
Clearly they have tried to incorporate both styles and alter the plot, we find out that the world of hoodlum fighting has become more organised and turned into an underground tournament with no rules.
It appears the thugs have upgraded their skills with more precision squabbling, actually turning away from booze and becoming lean fit fighting machines.This is all well and good but it kinda removes the whole gritty footie fan battling aspect that made the very first film reasonably fun to watch (aside from seeing Wood getting his head kicked in).
Now you simply have yet another fight tournament flick with semi muscular blokes doing martial arts, the perfect vehicle for Adkins and obviously tailored around him.
Its good they have tried to come up with a fresh idea here but firstly...it ruins the premise of the franchise and secondly, why make a third film anyway only to change it completely?I still can't quite fathom out why Adkins agreed to make this when its clear to see its a low budget go nowhere flick.
The main problem with the film aside from poor acting and hokey cockney accents is the fact the fights aren't even that good, too obvious basically, you can see the punches and kicks aren't connecting.
Had the fights actually looked good then you could forgive all the rest as fighting is the name of the game bottom line.
Unfortunately its all pretty bad truth be told, a football hooligan film without any actual footie hooliganism, not that I'm condoning footie hooliganism of course but that's what you expect here, dagnabbit.3/10.
It shouldn't be called "Green Street Hooligans?.
Not even close to "Green Street Hooligans".
It doesn't show the life of real casuals and firms like second and especially first part.
It's good action movie but it's not the real "Green Street Hooligans" movie.
They all train some kind of martial arts and they have fights similar to this.
But "Green Street" is about UK casuals and their way of life which is not even close like this.
I like the cast and the fighting scenes which are well done.
So my grade is 8 (9 for the movie and 7 because it's not "Green Street")