Directed by:
Lexi AlexanderScreenplay:
Dougie BrimsonCinematography:
Alexander BuonoComposer:
Christopher FrankeCast:
Elijah Wood, Charlie Hunnam, Claire Forlani, Marc Warren, Leo Gregory, Ross McCall, Henry Goodman, Rafe Spall, Geoff Bell, Jefferson Hall, Kieran Bew (more)Plots(1)
After getting unjustly expelled from Harvard, an aspiring journalist moves to London to live with his sister and brother-in-law. Quickly, he makes friends with a group of violent soccer fans he encounters. But when he becomes desensitized to their brutal ways, he learns the cost of taking sports fandom to the extreme. (official distributor synopsis)
Reviews (7)
It took me ages to finally force myself into watching the Hooligans, but now I must say that it was really worth it. Wood pretty briskly shook off the Baggins’ image and I’m really grateful for that. It would be a shame if he ended up typecast. As a “brawler" he is just perfect. Lexi Alexander, the female director, made a great impression. Maybe unexpectedly great. The fights are excellent, raw and pulsing with necessary energy and at the same time she manages the psychological side of the movie well and keeps good track of the story line. What more to say. I’m glad I saw it and will happily watch it again sometime. W-H-U!
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A simple subject that we’ve seen a hundred times before, set in the unusual environment of rival British football hooligans. The film has ferociousness, the fights are shot briskly and clearly, the dramatic relationships between the characters work and the presence of the more commercial icons Elijah Wood and Claire Forlani freshens up the indie feel of this low-budget production.
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I put this film off unnecessarily, and even I am not a football fan, I enjoyed it. Charlie Hunnam in the prime of his career and Elijah Wood, already known as Frodo, was a fine choice (badass/looser). The movie is fun, gritty, suspenseful. I definitely don't regret watching it. Story****, Action****, Humor***, Violence***, Entertainment****, Music***, Visuals***, Atmosphere****, Suspense***. 8/10.
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Football hooligans are nuts, but they're actually just people too. They have their own dramatic stories, and Green Street Hooligans focuses on one such story. What a prosaic title. Frodo comes to Britain to learn what football is all about. It seems to be a gang of crazy people watching it. Yet the film is not about football at all. The director managed to capture dramatic moments well. On the other hand, it's still just a somewhat classic fairy tale about how sometimes a person has to completely break down to understand how this world really works.
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The most interesting aspect of Green Street Hooligans is how it uses the attractive and emotionally charged world of aggressive football fans and football stadiums as a backdrop for its story. The most appealing factor for many fans is the very well-directed brutal fights. The film does a great job of maintaining its pace and tension in this regard. On the other hand, some films can analyze certain subjects, while others simply exploit them, and unfortunately, Green Street Hooligans belongs to the latter group. The whole touching story about brotherly love and the dedicated relationship of young fans to their club is only superficially connected to the hooligan theme, and the reality of this phenomenon is completely different. Hooligans represent an authentic and very dark criminal structure where football doesn't matter, or rather, it is just an excuse for violence. A film about hooligans could contain a social analysis of the frustration of poor teenagers and unemployed immigrants from the suburbs, it could develop an intriguing criminal plot and much more, but here we have a blatant kitsch that is fundamentally dishonest. Elijah Wood is a good actor, but he is not suitable for the role of a young violent person, and above all, I didn't believe for a moment in his transformation from a cultivated intellectual who graduated from an elite American university to a member of a group of fighters who are surrounded by teenagers with basic education and the IQ of a rocking horse. If it were a 16-year-old teenager, I could believe in his metamorphosis, but here it was an artificial construct. Overall impression: 40%.
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