This is, in all probability, the most irritating film of all time. The reasons for this sorry state of affairs are threefold. Firstly there is no actual football action in the entire film. The film would have been slightly bearable if they interspersed the "gritty realism" (yeah right) with clips from classic football matches, alas, this isn't the case. Instead we get a bunch of idiots whose message seems to be that if you're not a football hooligan you don't have a life - make of that what you will. Secondly the cast is made up almost entirely of cockneys - scally cockneys at that (Zeberdee's death couldn't come soon enough). Worse, the films release seemed to inspire people to copy them to the nth degree - why? Finally, and perhaps most importantly, the film glorifies football hooliganism as a good thing, and I'm sorry but it just isn't. In conclusion my hatred of this film is matched only by my disappointment at not being allowed to give a film no stars, which is what this film, undoubtedly, deserves.
Review of The Football Factory
