A watchable, but disappointing, movie that brings nothing new to the serious topic it addresses.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 1, 2011

The Firm is hardly calculated to convert those who find Love's work brash, clichd and empty, but there's a good deal of warmth and humour here.

Full Review | Sep 18, 2009

Love's second movie about hooligans marks a quantum leap forward from the messy, senseless violence of 'The Football Factory'.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 18, 2009

While it doesn't exactly break new ground thematically, this is Love's most accomplished film to date. Like the terrace heroes who are its subjects, it's as good-looking and stylish as it is dangerously seductive.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 18, 2009

Love's films have, in the past, brought me out in a rash - but this one is watchable. It's well made; there's a persistent and welcome undercurrent of humour in the script that reminded me of Love's sparky debut, Goodbye Charlie Bright,

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 18, 2009

The odd thing is that Love's version feels so bright and breezy, as if he's cosying back up to a wider audience who were turned off by Outlaw's grimy nihilism. If that's the case, it's a wacky choice of subject, but the effort's appreciated.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 18, 2009

The film is covered in talent, including Love's, of the sort that makes you look forward to the next thing they do. Here, you feel they have a lot to climb over, but there are scenes where the attempt to get close to something real is powerfully inspired.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 18, 2009

It's all ridiculously clichd and over the top, yet once you give up taking it seriously and surrender to its relentless blokeishness, The Firm proves to be an enjoyable Shane Meadows-lite ride with a bit of wideboy charm.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 18, 2009

Love's film is ultimately pointless, having nothing new to say on the issues of male bonding, acceptance and tribalism.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 18, 2009

A redundant compendium of blokeish cliches.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 18, 2009

While The Firm is slick, evocative and very violent, Love supplies yet further proof that hooligan movies have gone about as far as they can.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 18, 2009

Putdowns such as "You couldn't hit water if you fell out of a boat" crackle throughout, fun is poked at Eighties fashion and the characters feel real.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 18, 2009

A sleek, if superfluous, remake.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 18, 2009

The best things about this are spanking dialogue and razor-sharp slang and the plethora of new faces it introduces to the screen. But as far as the impact is concerned Love has bottled out.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 18, 2009

Yet another film about football hooliganism that has nothing to say except mindless violence is bad for your health.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 18, 2009

Given that the original's on DVD, Love's done hooliganism, and the plot gets shut down just when it's getting interesting: why?

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 18, 2009

The Firm, a remake of the 1980s footie hooligan 온라인카지노추천 movie, has something Love's previous films have lacked: you could call it finesse, or a preference for character over chaos.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 18, 2009

The Firm is never less than watchable, thanks to some amusing dialogue and strong performances from its two leads, but there's nothing here to mark it out from other hooligan dramas.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 18, 2009

This umpteenth take on the same old story is a pretty polished effort from writer-director Nick Love, you need a lot more than a snazzy soundtrack and Jimmy Savile's tracksuit collection to make it worth an unqualified thumbs-up.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 18, 2009

Love, a visual stylist with nothing original to say, delivers plenty of sickening violence, but softens the outcome - and the point - with a sentimental, redemptive ending.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 18, 2009