Goal! III (2009)

User Rating:

3.8/10   

Director:

Andrew Morahan

Writers:

Mike Jefferies (screenplay) and
Piers Ashworth (writer)

Genre:

Drama | Romance | Sport

Plot:

The heroes compete on the greatest stage of all, the FIFA World Cup Finals. |

Plot Keywords:

World Cup | Sports Team | Soccer Match | Sequel | Wedding Ceremony

Cast

JJ Feild	...	Liam Adams
Leo Gregory	...	Charlie Braithwaite
Kuno Becker	...	Santiago Munez
Nick Moran	...	Nick Ashworth
Kasia Smutniak	...	Sophia Rossi
Anya Lahiri	...	June
Tamer Hassan	...	Ronnie
Craig Heaney	...	Phil
Jack McBride	...	Walter
Christopher Fairbank	...	Foghorn
Mike Elliot	...	Gordon
Antonia Bernath	...	Britt
Gary Lewis	...	Mal Braithwaite
Ori Pfeffer	...	Mad Director
John Salthouse	...	Manager

Also Known As:

Goal 3 - Das Finale (Germany) (DVD title)
Goal! 3: Taking on the World (UK) (DVD title)

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for sexual content, brief strong language and some drug use.

Country:

Germany

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Certification:

USA:PG-13

Filming Locations:

England, UK

Company:

Milkshake Films

Goofs:

Continuity: In England's first game in the knockout rounds of the World Cup, Joe Cole is substituted for Charlie Braithwaite. Later on in the game when David Beckham scores from a free kick, Joe Cole is seen celebrating on the pitch with Beckham.

Movie Connections:

Follows Goal! (2005)

What happened to the munez story ?

I went into this film thinking that it would carry on from the first 2 goal films and be about the story of the brilliant mexian footballer santiago munez reaching the ultimate dream of playing in the world cup. Unfortunately he played very little part in this film. Not even kicking a ball in the world cup. This is hard to understand considering the first two movies were about him. Overall I thought the script for this movie was terrible compared to the first two which I enjoyed. There were so many times in which the story here just did not relate to what was seen in the first two movies and you ended up asking yourself " hold on what about munez wife or , who is he I have never seen him before etc etc" and you never really get a full explanation to these questions. There are some parts which are completely absurd, for instance, adams gets a taxi to see an ex girlfriend, he goes to pay the taxi driver and the taxi drivers says no it alright mate its for free. Adams says great I'll sort you out for tickets to see england in the world cup after the knockout stage. This sounds a reasonable thing to do. However you see the taxi driver and his friends 1) get into the VIP areas of the world cup games, 2)invited to Braithwaite funeral, 3) invited to adams wedding. I mean come it was a free taxi ride for god sake and suddenly your best man at the wedding. All in all I found the story boring and had no relation to the first two movies. The writers for this movie should be ashamed that they strayed so far away from the munez story of the first two movies. So my advice is if you think goal 3 will be anything like the first two movies then you will be bitterly disappointed as I was. With a script this bad It is no wonder some of the actors who played big parts in Goal 1 and 2 did not sign up for Goal 3. Verdit ----> miss at all costs