TrueHello Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

SeeQuant Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

Brennan Camacho Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

Cheryl A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

Matt Bouchard Plot is quite good, performances are excellent, even the writing is good. A quick plot summary:1) Boy loves Arsenal 2) Boy meets girl and they hate each other 3) They end up falling in love and accidentally getting pregnant 4) Boy's love of football drives them apart. Girl keeps wanting him to live in the real world. 5) Boy makes pretty solid arguments about how the real world is not really all that interesting and it's good to have something outside of yourself to be emotionally attached to. 6) Arsenal wins the league and the both realize they were equally sort of wrong. 7) Happily ever after.This is a delightful film, and you will enjoy it. Especially if you are a Firth fan. He has delightfully moppy hair and his character is frustratingly endearing. There is very little to say on the positive side as it is all just...really nice! Funny, heartwarming, great pacing, just lovely. Stop reading this review and go and watch it.For the downside, there is really only one: the resolution. In classic, rom-com style, after having a row, she (though it's usually the guy) has a change of heart and seeks him out. She runs to his house in the final minutes of the game, and he tells her to...well...get lost but uses much stronger language. This moment relies on you knowing that most British apartments (at least in the late 80s) didn't have a way for you to buzz people in from inside your home. He realizes it was her and runs down to get her (even though the game is still on!) and she has wandered off. He runs back upstairs to catch the winning goal, and they meet up/make up/make out during the victory celebration in the streets. That all sounds lovely, but for me, it fell a bit flat. First, I felt her wandering away was strange. I don't think the movie was materially improved by delaying their reunion until the party. I suppose it gives a bit of a reason to show the celebration, but it felt strange. The time it took him to run downstairs, after swearing at her, was hardly enough time for her to wander far enough that he couldn't see her. Second, the issues in their relationship remain unresolved. There is a bit of a throwaway where he says, "Their failures are not my failures any more" or something like that. Essentially, his life/happiness is less connected to Arsenal's success. So, the movie wants you to think that they met in the middle: he changed a little and so did she (evidenced by their cute bickering as the movie closes). However, it's a trick. He gives up something deeply meaningful to him and becomes less connected to football and his fellow fans. She likes football a little more. That's it. She doesn't think the "real world" is any less real. She learns no lessons about the beauty of loving something you have no control over. That's her whole character: preparing, lesson plans, organization. It's all about control. She doesn't give that up or even question it. You could argue that she feels it a little in the street celebration, but that's unconvincing to me. I've been in those celebrations, and they're fun even if you don't care a whit for the team or even the sport. All it would have taken would have been a single line suggesting that she might be rethinking her priorities. But no, the conclusion is that sports are still juvenile and silly, and we should all really focus on more important things and not be so affected by them.In conclusion, I liked it, but for my personal tastes (as a lover of sport), the resolution could have been more satisfying.

Leftbanker This movie is laugh-out-loud funny, romantic in an anti-romance sort of way (I don't know what that means either) and has something to say about why men love sports. I'm a converted football fan after living in football crazy Spain now for almost 5 years. This is the best movie about football (soccer) that I have ever seen (the best movies are about baseball).I read the book years ago and liked it very much without knowing much about the game. To return to both the book and this fine film with my new fanaticism for the game (Valencia CF is my adopted team) has been a true pleasure.Colin Firth proves once again that he is funny, likable, and a fine actor. I believed his passion for Arsenal, and furthermore, I totally understand it. The Spanish have a lot of respect for the UK fans because they are so nutty about the game.I also learned a bit about the history of the Premier League. What a season that must have been! Here it's been Barça or Real Madrid (mostly Barça lately) winning almost everything.

MySportsComplex A London football-obsessed school teacher has spent the last 20-some years, and every day going forward, viewing life through the one lens: his favorite team, The Arsenal Football Club. Having sublimated the grief of his parents' divorce through English Football, he views every week of his life as another football match in pursuit of fortunes always hiding.Colin Firth, who usually plays the archetypical sullen Brit, is resounding as author Nick Hornby's autobiographical noncommittal single man who's really just a lad grown up. Hornby's character then grows smitten a prim and proper English teacher who dislikes him at first but warms up to him and his enthusiasm for sport and life in general.Fever Pitch is a nice portrayal of the struggles of an irrational sports lover reluctantly coming to terms with the fact that, to the rest of the world, there are more important things than Saturday's game.written by Andy Frye, MySportsComplex.blogspot.com

polkatronixx The movie was weak at best. It is unbelievable as a romantic comedy, and the main character's obsession with Ar5ena1 is just annoying. There are no really likable characters in the movie, and the story just isn't very compelling. The courtship between the two main characters is jarringly short... they go from meeting (and disliking each other) to snogging in a manner of minutes. You never get a good picture of why, exactly, they like each other.This movie may, however, appeal to people who like Ar5ena1; especially all of them who claim to be lifelong supporters of the team, all of them who claim to have watched the match in question, and even all of them who (like most Ar5ena1 fans) turn off the telly when 'their' team is losing in order to go to the pub. Now that's loyalty! COYS!