There has never been made a good football movie, cause the game is to hard to transform into the big screen, but there has been made some great movies about whats going on outside of the pitch e.g. The Football Factory. The Damned United is all about the charismatic Brian Clough and his rivalry with the legendary Don Revie. Tom Hooper combines fiction with actual footage in a great manner and Michael Sheen is excellent. As we speak Leeds are on their way back where they belong and thank god!

It's debatable how accurate the relationships between the characters are portrayed, but it's still a very entertaining film although a bit too short.

I don't know much of anything about soccer (and honestly don't care to learn), but The Damned United is still a damned fine film. This is more a character study of club manager Brian Clough than your typical underdog sports story, and Clough is a fascinatingly flawed man played to perfection by Michael Sheen. Meaney and Spall make Sheen's job easy, providing strong sparring partners for him to play off of, but the film is built on the back of Sheen's performance. No surprise, they're both great.

This film is so concerned with its main characther, Brian Clough (the brilliant Michael Sheen), and his off-field clashes, arrogance and ego that the feature serves almost as a documentary of his work at Derby County and Leeds United. A perfect movie for sports lovers, like me, a huge fan of english football.

This is a rare sports film. And that would be because it is not actually a sports film. It just uses football as backdrop to tell the story about a man's personal vendetta and how his obsession with revenge almost consumes him. It is at its heart an underdog story without all the unnecessary sentimental crap. And it boasts another terrific performance by the great Michael Sheen. Definitely, a rock solid football drama.

Could have taken a bit more time fleshing out some of the more minor characters. The Leeds Utd. players in particular come across as charicatures. Very entertaining film nonetheless.

Great sports drama that isn't heavy handed on the sport its covering. Nice uses of archival footage are welcome. Casting increased the enjoyment of this feature and Michael Sheen is in particular shines.

Great film about a great football manager. I loved this but then i love football. May not be for everyones taste but i know the mans accomplishments and appreciated this film.

Entertaining. Having built up some expectations for it I found it a little underwhelming, though.

Unlike an actual football match, which is 90+ minutes of nothing, this movie kept me thoroughly entertained from start to finish. I believe the key was removing as much football from the story as possible. Well played.

I'm not a big fan of football... but have to admit Sheen's performance is really good!

It relies fairly heavily on nostalgia and will appeal to people who grew up watching football in the 70s. Mudbath pitches, short shorts, mid-match punch-ups and players with perms. Those were the days. The narrative was a bit simplistic, though. The Leeds players were little more than pantomime villains, and for all of Clough's arrogance to be blamed on one perceived snub by Revie was a bit of a let-down. There was room for a much deeper exploration of what made such a complex character tick.

The best footbal movie I've ever seen!

This film managed to capture the essence of the Beautiful Game, profoundly demonstrated through marvelous acting and screenplay worthy of critical acclaim.

Interesting, even for someone who had never even heard of the protagonists or teams involved before seeing the film.

I praised Moneyball for being a sports film that focused on the people behind the sport rather than re-enacting something you could watch on ESPN. Little did I know a film that does this just as well for another sport came out two years prior. Sheen is excellent - though when is he not? - and I can see why Hooper was given stronger opportunities after this.

I like soccer, and I like Leeds United so this film did interest me outright. Even if you didn't really care for either I think you could appreciate the great character study (it's more about the manager Brian Clough than the actual squads anyway) and the wonderful acting by Michael Sheen and the rest.

Not a film about football but an examination of the relationships that existed between Clough and Taylor, and Clough and Revie and to some extent Clough and his players. Brilliantly acted a film with plenty of truth, even if the portrayals /facts are not always accurate! Only Clough himself would know that.

Liked it at the time but a very different feel to it than the book, which is brilliant and depressing at the same time.

'The Damned United' balances fact and fiction very well. Sheen makes a good Clough, but never quite manages to capture the true extent of the great mans charisma, and Meaney is supurb as Revie, if a little overly bitter! The film lacks a bit of meat in the middle, and actually feels too short, mainly because Hooper does not expand and explore Cloughs time at Leeds enough during the films runtime. None the less, this embellished biopic is still charming and very entertaining.

Much better than most sports movies. I would have liked more focus on Timothy Spall's character, who is more interesting than his megalomaniac partner. I only play the game, I do not follow professional teams or the history of professional teams. And still I thought it was a good film overall though hardcore fans of English football will probably appreciate it more.

Follows typical rise-and-fall-of-the-rebel theme but Sheen kicks it up a notch (in fact, the role was reportedly written for him). More focused on Clough's hyper-competitive personality than the actual sport.

Excellent.

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