Goal!

Average movie with a cliche "story of success". The good part is, story is all about football.

There's nothing remotely compelling about this predictable, cliché-ridden sports movie; scenes both on and off the field are uniformly dull, the representation of modern professional football is embarrassingly naïve and the lead actor has all the charisma of a wet flannel.

So so formulaic, but there was something I liked about it.

More enjoyable that I thought a film about football would be although I can't see myself watching more than once. The acting is pretty good but the plot is full of cliches

Passable. And I am not into soccer at all.

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cliched, but enjoyable.

One big cliche. But a pretty good one.

Its a wonderful feel good movie about hope, determination and a dream.

If I wasn't a fan of the sport I'm sure I would've found it very uninteresting. The association with Newcastle adds a certain comical aspect to proceedings.

As a movie, and a story, it's rather shit, yet it's hard to not enjoy it if you're even the least bit interested in football.

Cliche. Nothing else. Just one thing seen before after another with cheesy music in the background. Not completely un-watchable though.

If you've seen The Rookie, you've seen a slightly better film than this one. The thing that irked me the most is Santiago was given so many fucking opportunities, and they try to make it look like he's had a hard life...come on.

Entertaining and compared to the miserable sequel a real good Movie about Soccer and Dreams...

Only for a football fan.

Good soccer movie with some great cameos. If you like soccer you'll enjoy this.

Actual football footage seems just weird alongside the clumsy staged material -- come on, the lead clearly can't shoot lol --, and the whole thing is a bunch of daddy issues + Fifa, Adidas ads promoting the Premier League. But this still's got some silly, naive charm and the cameos are just awesome -- young Milner 🐐 and, Jesus, there is even room for Eriksson hanging around at a party.

One of the most predictable movies ever. Completely awful.

A sports drama I actually quite enjoyed.

It seems impossible to make a good football movie.

well... if you're in love with football; the love that comes without question and criticism; you will enjoy goal. it recreates the moments why we love the good game with a wee bit of over-reliance on clichés. had it not used football as its base material; goal would not have been as enjoyable, but with things as it is, and because the fact that it's always the most beautiful thing when the ball gets entangled in those nets; goal is a good watch.

OH GOD NOT THIS AGAIN... A story, that has been told atleast 1bilion times, boring actors... Do not watch this, even if you are the biggest football fan ever.

#00s#, popcorn, story

"With any luck its sequels will fail to garner a stateside release due to that most dependable of domestic attitudes: American apathy toward soccer." - Nick Schager

Likable enough, but awfully thin and predictable underdog sports saga is written and performed in a flat, perfunctory way, and can’t even get any life out of the fish-out-of-water “Yank in England” tension. Comes to low-level life during the football scenes, but even then the ungainly mix of archive footage and recreation sucks most of the life out of proceedings.