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The movie follows Matt Buckner, a wrongfully expelled Harvard undergrad who moves to London, where he is introduced West Ham football firm run by his brother-in-law's younger brother and is morally transformed by their commitment to each other.
The script is a jumble of caricatures and cliches.
October 14, 2005
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
[Alexander] is a better anthropologist than dramatist and her snapshot of this culture is more revealing than the story crafted around it.
October 27, 2005
Cinema em Cena
Hunnam e Wood exibem imensa segurança ao carregarem o filme, que também desperta nosso interesse através da análise dos motivos que levam pessoas comuns à violência das torcidas organizadas.
April 02, 2006
Detroit Free Press
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.
October 21, 2005
Oregonian
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.
November 18, 2005
Variety
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.
October 11, 2005
Arizona Daily Star
Nothing hits harder, or with less tact, than the overriding message, that Matt is really looking for a surrogate family.
It's what you thought Fight Club was going to be, before it went in a whole other (and far more interesting) direction.
October 13, 2005
rec.arts.movies.reviews
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.