Green Street Hooligans

A somewhat shallow insight into a world where the ordinary citizen cannot get to and a normal thinking person perhaps does not even want to get to. I am simply not impressed by the issues surrounding football rowdies. I don't understand their caste into clans, their identification with a club that they are willing to defend even at the cost of violence, I don't understand why they are so willing to beat the shit out of each other, why they directly arrange fights with other clans, and this film certainly didn't clarify it for me, even though in the words of one of the main protagonists, Pete, it tried to bring me closer to the mindset of these guys with an excess of testosterone. It's artfully and realistically shot with an impressive atmosphere, it has superb performances (Charlie Hunnam rocks), but it's shallow. And Wood's confession and thank you towards his bully mentor at the very end is tear-jerking (and I don't mean touching). (24/03/2006)

It's billed as a low-budget indie, but it’s packed with interesting acting names that don't disappoint. The straightforward story about wild football fans is entertaining, brisk and properly raw, helped by a good setting and decently filmed brawls. It doesn't have a deeper meaning and the ending is clichéd, but Hooligans does have a certain power of the moment at times. As a directorial debut, OK. (16/05/2022)

Football hooligans are lunatics, but actually they are just people too. They experience their own dramatic stories, and one of those is captured in the film "Hooligans". A prosaic name. Frodo comes to Britain to learn what football is all about. Apparently, it is a gang of crazy people who watch it. Football itself is not the main focus here. The director managed to capture the dramatic moments well, but on the other hand, it is still just a bit of a classic fairy tale about how sometimes a person has to really break themselves to understand how this world truly works. (16/12/2013)

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. (22/01/2006)

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. (18/09/2020)