Reptileenbu Did you people see the same film I saw?

DipitySkillful an ambitious but ultimately ineffective debut endeavor.

Kirandeep Yoder The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

Allissa .Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Saiph90 Having followed my team home and away in the 70's and 80's I found the confrontation scenes laughable, not sure how thick you would have to be to want to face people armed with knifes, bottles and baseball bats most fans wanted to know where the pub was when they travelled away. The story is pretty predictable Billy Evans played by Leo Gregory gets in way over his head when he starts a pitch war with Mickey played by Ricci Harnett. The major problem is everyone seems to be trying to out leery everyone else which becomes a bit wearisome, the best actor by a country mile is Vincent Regan who understands less is more. Not the worst Saturday night Sky movie but unfortunately Martin Kemp makes a hash of the film with lack of pace, building up tension, empathy for characters, loved one posters comment "Lorraine Stanley playing Julie appears to have based her character on Waynetta Slob" had me laughing out loud this morning.

Reg Zambonini Apart from this movie being about as cardboard as possible.The vicar at the funeral also played the mortuary technician.There are probably more dual roles for some of the cast to be spotted by sharper eyes than mine.Kemp should have stayed selling sofas instead of a misguided attempt at directing if this production is all he could come up with, I am sure the cast must have took the money and run to leave Kemp to take any comeback flack.As a great believer in the British gritty gangster movies, this is definitely a movie that rates the lowest.I recognised quite a few of the cast who had made previously decent appearances in movies, but with their best attempts could not have made this movie one worth watching.

davideo-2 STAR RATING: ***** Saturday Night **** Friday Night *** Friday Morning ** Sunday Night * Monday MorningBilly Evans (Leo Gregory) used to be the head of the toughest football firm in the East End, but has now settled down to a quiet family life, with a successful car dealership business under his belt. But he is forced to gather his old crew back together when new face on the crime scene Mickey (Ricci Harnett) starts running protection on some old friends of his. This results in a calamitous battle of wills that sets in motion a devastating chain of events that sets him on a collision course with the sinister Watson (Vincent Regan), the shadowy figure controlling Mickey and his mob.These East End gangster/hooligan films are all pretty interchangeable, yet they obviously have a pretty big following, given the volume and momentum with which the new ones appear on the scene. Leo Gregory would be one such genre favourite, who appears with some regularity in these offerings, and here he is in this latest addition directed by Spandau Ballet's Martin Kemp, which seems to have appeared out of nowhere with less than a flurry of publicity. This may not be hard to comprehend, since while it's the latest addition to the genre, it offers nothing new and nothing to inject the field with any substance or quality.Kemp only ever really attained mild success as an actor, and if this is his style as a director, he may get stopped even sooner in his tracks. Somehow, this projects a really cheap, amateurish look about it, like a film student effort, not even up to the standards of a TV movie. In amongst the barrage of mockney slang and clichés, there are some moments of suitably hair raising, shocking violence and the performances are stellar enough. Gregory has a passion and flair in his manner that suggests he's really trying, while as the highest calibre actor on offer, Regan steals the show as the softly spoken, methodical psychopath. But this is still too much of a low grade, dirt cheap effort to be anything more than just the very sum of it's parts. **

Alan Watson I rather like a decent hooligan film....This however was not any shade of decent..Only watched this as Green Strret wasn't the worst football hooligan film(not as good as ID and rise of the foot soldier anyway).But this was poor on every aspect from the acting, storyline and even the fight sequences were unrealistically shown.It will take a sensational film to bring me back round from avoiding Martin Kemp directed films.Terrible.!Wait for it to be on TV ,it really is not worth money nor data.