Laikals The greatest movie ever made..!

Bardlerx Strictly average movie

Curapedi I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

Jenna Walter The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

Claudio Carvalho Wullie Smith (Max Beesley) is a handicapped young man with a serious trauma: his brother Johnny died when they were young while climbing a mountain because of his fault. He works as a milkman in a tiny city in Scotland and has a crush on Rosemary Bailey (Laura Fraser). However, he is too shy to declare his love to her. Every night, Wullie meets his friends in a pub called `Bennys'. This place is the fruit of a bet made one hundred years ago, against another pub, `Le Bistro'. In that time, their owners firmed a stake: Bennys would never win Le Bistro in one hundred soccer games along one hundred years. The winner of the bet would take possession of both pubs. In the present, Bennys has lost the previous ninety-nine games, and needs desperately to win the last game. I bought this DVD maybe two years ago in a sale offer, and I have not paid attention to it until today. I have just seen it, and it is a delightful and exciting movie. The story is indeed a comedy, but has also drama and romance. The cast has a great performance and makes the viewer cheers in many situations. I am Brazilian, land of the soccer (The British invented this game, and we improved it), and five times world champion, and I love soccer. This movie has absurd, such as the couch, who is handicap, decides the game shooting a penalty in the end of the match, but who is caring to that? The important thing is `the good guys' win `the bad guys', and this is achieved. It is a very funny situation, because in Brazil, we soccer fans have a saying, which is: `Penalty is so important that the president of the club should be responsible for shooting it'. Therefore, for us Brazilians, it is very funny the foregoing mentioned situation. Pierce Brosnan has a surprisingly participation in the end of the story. This film is highly recommended for fans of soccer. My vote is eight.Title (Brazil): `A Aposta' (`The Bet')

davidholmesfr Gregory's Girl meets Brassed Off - or Brosnan meets the Channel 4 style of film-making and loses. You probably need to be rural British to appreciate the rigours of amateur football played on pitches utilised (and fertilised) by farm stock for the rest of the week. And it would also help if you understand the dedication to one pub over and above another. The real problem is the total predictability; no-one could possibly deny the inevitable outcome and although there are a few laughs en route it's a journey hardly worth bothering with. If there's nothing else on then switch off brain and press start. It's totally harmless fun and good triumphs over evil. But for really good films about football then try Gregory's Girl or the classic "Ripping Yarn" of Michael Palin's Barnstoneworth United made by BBC TV many years ago.

simon_sparrow Every male character in this movie behaves as if he had the maturity of a ten-year old, or worse. A pub is put on the line for no particular reason. Everything is over-the-top and overplayed to the hilt. Producer Brosnan has a pointless cameo. I found the entire experience an utter waste of my money and time.

smiley pie This is one of the funniest films of teh year it stars Max Beesley and Richard E Grant who both live in a tiny village and Geore Gus (Richard E Grant) owns his own pub and has had pub football team that has an annual match once a year for the past 99 years. When Wullie Smith (Max Beesley) takes over as the manager of "Bennys" another pub he has just 14 days to train a team that may win the match for the first time ever!!! Neil Morrissey as a bloke called "Piss-Off" this is because if any one asks him a question he answers with "Piss Off". He is a former pro but when he found his wife in the team bath with the rest of the team he retired and never played again. Both teams are desperate to get him play and when he turns up at the match in Gus's team colours they may be a bit of trouble for "Benny's"Wullie has lived there all his life and when he childhood sweethart comes back there may be a bit of skills required off the pitch as well.The only think wrong about this film is that it is remarkably similar to John Godber's film Up 'N' Under except this film is about football and nort rugbyThis being Mick Davis first ever film I look forward to seeing more of his presentations and hopes he keeps the same humor in the next film he makes.IMDB members have given this 7.2 out of 10 which I think is better than what the voters have given it. 8.5/10