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After the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Elijah Wood could've opted for further big budget epics, but took a sharp left turn with this better-than-average B-movie. Released just after Everything is Illuminated, another offbeat entry, Wood plays journalism student Matt Buckner. In the prologue, he's expelled from Harvard when his over-privileged roommate sets him up to take the fall for his own misdeeds. With nowhere to go, Matt decides to visit his sister, Shannon (Claire Forlani), in London. He's already got a chip on his shoulder when he falls under the sway of Shannon's brother-in-law, Pete (Charlie Hunnam), head of West Ham's football "firm," the Green Street Elite. Matt soon gets caught up in their thuggish antics—to tragic effect. In her feature debut, German-born Lexi Alexander makes a mostly convincing case for the attractions of violence to the emotionally vulnerable, as opposed to the emotionally numb pugilists of the more satirical Fight Club. Unlike David Fincher (by way of Chuck Palahniuk), she plays it straight, except for the stylized fight sequences. Consequently, humor is in short supply, but the young Brit cast, especially Leo Gregory as the surly Bovver, is charismatic and Wood makes his character as believable as possible, i.e. he may seem miscast, but that's the point. Although there's no (direct) correlation between the two, Green Street makes a fine taster for Bill Buford's Among the Thugs, the ultimate dissection of the hooligan mentality. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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Actors: Charlie Hunnam - Claire Forlani - David Alexander - Elijah Wood - Oliver Allison. Director: Lexi Alexander. Format: DVD. Format Size: Widescreen. Runtime: 108 Minutes. Language: English. Subtitle: English Subtitles. Region code: Region 1 (United States Canada Bermuda U.S. territories). Discs: 1. Rating: R. Genre: Action. Subgenre: Drama. Release Year: 2005.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
This is one heck of a film,
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This review is from: Green Street Hooligans (DVD)
This is one strong and compelling film that's probably been hidden from a lot of viewers and lucky enough I wasn't one of them. I also thought it was very interesting to learn about the organization of "The Firms," I never knew such a thing existed either. Before I seen this film I thought of Hooliganism as a bunch of young drunken idiots, who like to pick fights, etc...... but that clearly wasn't the case. As an American, I struggled a bit with the heavy British accents but I pick up on it really fast and this shouldn't be any reason for the film to be held back especially what it entails.Elijah Wood, as Matt, plays a "Yank" in London and gets sucked into a kind of friendship that you just do not walk into lightly. He plays the off centered role very well and is clearly a departure in character that begs Hollywood planning in not playing the nice guy after all that the public knows him for, namely "Lord of the Rings." (Also seen in departure from this role in "Sin City," where he shows his mettle). Elijah has done this role very well at standing back and letting the story unfold around him, and not trying to take the spotlight. The cast is neatly assembled from well known, and not so well known, British actors and most give a five star performance. Claire Forlani's emotional performance rang very true. Leo Gregory was excellent, managing to make me loathe him, and then breaking my heart all in one film! Charlie Hunnam was good, but in that naturalistic way that makes it look as though no actual acting is going on! The fight scenes, while clearly disturbing, did not bother me so much. There is a lot of violence, mostly out of shot and stylized into fast motion photography, but it works well in making you try to hide and, at the same time, face up to the supposed life of part of UK football society. Some have said that they found the end scene in which Matt confronts his college roommate to be gratuitous, but I did not. Matt was demonstrating the he was not to be messed with, while stopping short of physical harm, and it wrapped up the movie's theme nicely for me. This film is worth seeing.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Worth seeing, but not without problems,
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This review is from: Green Street Hooligans (DVD)
Interesting, well made, always interesting, if flawed exploration of the Britishculture of gang warfare based around football teams. These aren't random crazies, but organized `firms' as they call themselves that engage in frequent hand to hand combat for the sheer testosterone/adrenaline rush, and for the feeling of community, of belonging. It's a fascinating world and raises important questions about violence being inherent in men. Case in point - when nerdy Elijah Wood comes to England over to visit his sister after being expelled from Harvard, he quickly falls in with a gang, and much to his shock and ours finds that he is turned on by participating in the violence. The problems: first of all, it's hard to buy that Wood would survive long. Even with enthusiasm he's undersized and under muscled. His moments in the many (and well staged) fight scenes never feel as real as those around him. The Harvard set up that gets Wood to England feels clumsy, hard to believe and over-the-top. The third act has more than it's share of Hollywood-style plot turns for a film that pretends to a semi-documentary feel. Last, I question the film's point of view about the violence, which seems to boil down to `it's OK if it doesn't go too far'. As one character says about another's death, without irony. `It taught me there's a time to stand your ground and a time to walk away.' But is it ever time to stand your ground to kick the crap out of others and have them kick the crap out of you over a football team? If I felt that was the character's perspective and not the film's it wouldn't have bothered me. But by the film's end its clear this violent, sad, pointless brawling has 'made a real man' out of Wood, and that's a hard position for me to endorse.
5.0 out of 5 stars
speedy delivery,
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This review is from: Green Street Hooligans (DVD)
Love the movie impressed with the price, very speedy delivery. I got it like two days after i ordered it.
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