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Green Street Hooligans
Freestyle Releasing
MPAA RATING: R for brutal violence, pervasive language and some drug use
Starring
Elijah Wood,
Charlie Hunnam,
Claire Forlani,
Marc Warren,
Leo Gregory,
Henry Goodman,
Geoff Bell,
and
Rafe Spall
When American Matt Buckner (Wood) is expelled unfairly from Harvard, he flees to England and is draw into the underworld of British football hooliganism. Green Street Hooligans is a story of loyalty, trust, and the sometimes brutal consequences of living close to the edge. (Freestyle Releasing)
| GENRE(S): |
Crime
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Drama
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Lexi Alexander
Dougie Brimson
Josh Shelov
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Lexi Alexander
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: June 13, 2006
Theatrical: September 9, 2005
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| RUNNING TIME: |
109 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA / UK |
Best of the Fest, 2005 Malibu Film Festival

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88
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Then I realized the movie's point is that someone like this nerdy Harvard boy might be transformed in a fairly short time into a bloodthirsty gang fighter. The message is that violence is hard-wired into men, if only the connection is made.

80
Film Threat
Don R. Lewis
A great film because of it's realism and the ability to show viewers a world that exists even today, but not everyone knows about.

75
New York Post
Kyle Smith
Director and co-writer Lexi Alexander choreographs the fight scenes with thrilling chaos, and the plot unfolds expertly if melodramatically.

75
San Francisco Chronicle
G. Allen Johnson
Terrific.

75
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
The movie, though, is nonsense. At its most credible, the story evokes fond memories of the adult drug narcs hiding among American high schoolers on ''21 Jump Street."

70
Variety
Joe Leydon
Unvarnished verisimilitude, visceral impact and vividly evoked emotional and physical extremes distinguish Hooligans, the impressive debut feature by German-born helmer Lexi Alexander.

70
LA Weekly
Scott Foundas
Playing something of a cipher who reinvents himself as the occasion demands, Wood is unusually well cast, but it's Hunnam, with a psychotic twinkle in his eye, who turns the movie on whenever he's onscreen.

67
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
At its best when it goes down to the pub and captures, quite flawlessly, the grotty intoxication of these mad, bad, dangerous-to-know Hammers fans hoisting incalculable pints.

67
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
It's a handsome and spry movie, and it might even have managed to be a good one if there were even the least chance of believing that Wood, who can't weigh 145 pounds dripping wet, had the slightest chance of hurting anyone with one of his wee fists.

63
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
Wood is compelling, but Charlie Hunnam ("Nicholas Nickleby") is the one to watch.

50
Chicago Reader
J.R. Jones
The gentle Wood isn't very convincing as a bare-knuckle brawler (which bodes ill for his forthcoming role as Iggy Pop), and the movie settles into a payback soap opera reminiscent of "West Side Story."

50
Dallas Observer
Luke Y. Thompson
The world of football riots seems rife with potential for the big screen, but Green Street Hooligans only periodically rises to it.

50
The New York Times
Manohla Dargis
Green Street Hooligans, an accidental advertisement for Alcoholics Anonymous and the somnolent pleasures of cricket that, in the end, is mostly about the pleasures, both visceral and visual, of violence.

50
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
Serves up a lot of bone-crushing violence in an offbeat context with considerable style and energy, but the steady diet of brutal street fighting makes it all but impossible to connect with this picture, despite whatever visceral appeal it may offer.

50
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Nathan Rabin
It loses its superficial charm during a labored third act that gets bogged down in tired, groan-inducing subplots.

50
Village Voice
Peter L'Official
Hunnam, whose cockney ranges from dodgy to downright Caine-ian, mutes Gary Oldman's bestial mouth-froth (in Clarke's 1988 The Firm), becoming the prettiest, most articulate, bloodthirsty thug ever to put lip to lager.

50
The Hollywood Reporter
John DeFore
Viewers hoping to understand the senseless phenomenon of football hooliganism would do better to rent Alan Clarke's nearly 20-year-old "The Firm."

50
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
A silly melodrama.

42
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
It becomes simply another banal gang film so familiar and predictable you have to wonder why so much potential is wasted on such a confused dramatic mess.

40
Empire
Chris Hewitt
A surprisingly rose-tinted look at a subculture that really should have been stamped out some time ago.

38
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
This is "Fight Club" without the irony or the metaphysical gaming.

30
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Soccer needs this movie like Georgia needed "Deliverance."


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