There is not much to admire here. It's all pretty implausable, with no firm in England ever going to have a fresh face American within their ranks, particuarly a firm so clearly based upon the ICF. Along with the well faaaaking overplayed cockney accents, the acting is generally awful, with Wood completely unwatchable. There are just so many inaccuracies here that as a West Ham fan and a football fan it hard to sit through this silly, nasty, overly polished hooligan melodrama and enjoy it.

This movie is actually pro hooliganism, and for such stupidity alone, it really ought to rank high amongst my guilty pleasures. Sadly it doesn't mean to be politically incorrect, it's just _that_ stupid. Football violence becomes a gimmick in a clumsily handled coming-of-age story, about standing your ground and brotherhood for life. You start wondering if the director has ever even been to England. Also I want to meet the man from preproduction, who came up with casting a hobbit as a hooligan.

Loved the film, save for last 2-3 minutes when Buckner sets that rich Harvard creep straight. If it ended a bit earlier with everybody broken and crying, it would've made for a much stronger statement.

Frodo is pretty good, and for the most part so is the movie.

A pretty solid film actually, though nothing particulary memorable or remarkable about it. Well, maybe the ending, which despite being a sappy tearjerker was carried out quite smoothly I believe, at least it stands out from the rest. I guess I just can't live with seeing Elijah Wood every two seconds. Nothing against the guy, he just annoys the fuck out of me. Where was I? Oh, Hooligans. What was it all about again?

I think ultimately it's heart is in the right place, but like it's characters it can't let go of the glorification of thuggishness and feels like someone saying "do as I say, not as I do." It's pretty well made and engaging, though, so it's still worth a look.

Really enjoyable. Never though that Hooligans had this other side.

There's much more in it than the fighting only. A good, solid, fast and deeper story than I expected from this one. Wood's performance is great, just as others's and the camerawork is great in some scenes. Really liked it.

It was ok, not great, not bad. Not a fan of celebrating violence which there seemed to be a hint of.