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53 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 19 Critics What's this?

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7.1 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 22 Ratings

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  • Starring: Alessandro Nivola, Kuno Becker
  • Summary: How far would you go to live your dream? When Santiago Munez (Becker) is given the chance of a lifetime, he must leave his family, his life in Los Angeles and everything that he knows to travel halfway around the globe to England and into a completely foreign world -- the exciting, fast-paced and glamorous world of international soccer. Goal! takes audiences into the electrifying, heart-pounding action of the world's most popular sport and features cameos from soccer's hottest superstars. (Buena Vista Pictures)… Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 19
  3. Negative: 1 out of 19
  1. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: G. Allen Johnson
    100
    Goal! hits the back of the net and is an early candidate for the funnest movie of the summer.
  2. Variety
    Reviewed by: Derek Elley
    60
    A slickly mounted slice of can-do nonsense.
  3. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Ty Burr
    38
    Handsomely shot and with a likable lead in Kuno Becker, it also suffers from a script so outrageously generic you could buy it at Costco.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 10
  3. Negative: 2 out of 10
  1. YolyR.
    10
    I loved this movie, Kuno is a great actor I would see him in spanish Soaps and I loved him. I love soccer too its a fun sport to watch. I cant wait for Goal! 2… Expand
    • 1 of 1 users said yes
  2. davidvillanueva
    9
    good
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  3. MichaelW.
    3
    This movie is ridiculous – it’s overflowing with clichés, painfully predictable, AND Becker doesn’t even look like he’s seen a soccer ball his entire life. Each time he kicks the ball his form is so poor it is laughable. Another thing that got me was the reoccurring theme of Becker shooting at an empty goal for practice. IF someone were as good as they make him out to be, you would think he would want a bit more of a challenge than an empty goal. I don’t know what that nonsense was about only 4 soccer movies, because there are plenty out there. I do take sympathy for the film makers because when making a movie that has such a simplistic plot about a sport there is very little room for creativity. And seeing how there are professional football teams that playing for most of the year it seems ridiculous to watch a formulaic film when you could be watching football with genuine pressure instead of prefabricated apprehension. Movies should be written more about the social aspects of sports not painting out a fantasy. I recommend: Football Factory or Joyeux Noël.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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