This drama purports to take us inside the world of West Ham football rowdies, but its plot is contrived.

| Jun 28, 2022

All this film succeeds in doing is glorifying violence.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 26, 2019

One reads books about football hooligans and sees films without expecting much in the way of truth or verisimilitude. But this one made a good honest stab at it.

| Feb 1, 2018

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 7, 2007

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 21, 2006

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 3, 2006

Hunnam e Wood exibem imensa segurana ao carregarem o filme, que tambm desperta nosso interesse atravs da anlise dos motivos que levam pessoas comuns violncia das torcidas organizadas.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 2, 2006

Green Street Hooligans loses any credibility it might have had the minute it tries to pass off Elijah Wood as a tough guy.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Dec 16, 2005

Nothing hits harder, or with less tact, than the overriding message, that Matt is really looking for a surrogate family.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 1, 2005

At least three writers collaborated on a script that drums out loudly its themes of loyalty, honor and revenge, and the finished product dances quickly enough between cliches to make for passable entertainment.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Nov 18, 2005

It swims and sinks in melodrama.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Oct 29, 2005

[Alexander] is a better anthropologist than dramatist and her snapshot of this culture is more revealing than the story crafted around it.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 27, 2005

There's a good movie to be made about the violent world of British soccer, or football, as it's called on the other side of the pond. This isn't it.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 21, 2005

German kickboxer-turned-director Lexi Alexander's brutal, unsparing portrait of disaffected youth running rampant amid the football stands and terraces of jolly old England.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 20, 2005

Approaches the sociologically poetic sloganeering of the Smiths at Morrissey's most hooligan-lovestruck.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 15, 2005

The script is a jumble of caricatures and cliches.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 14, 2005

We learn that violence is bad, except when it feels good, or helps solve our problems.

Full Review | Oct 14, 2005

Soccer needs this movie like Georgia needed Deliverance.

| Oct 13, 2005

It's what you thought Fight Club was going to be, before it went in a whole other (and far more interesting) direction.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 13, 2005

Pic amply demonstrates that Alexander -- director of Johnny Flynton, 2003 Oscar nominee for dramatic short -- has the chops to bring a fresh take to onscreen rough stuff.

Full Review | Oct 11, 2005