The Firm

The Firm (2009)

  • 70% of critics liked it
    (23 reviews)

  • 35% of users liked it
    (2,074 ratings)

Alan Clarke's 1989 movie about British soccer hooligans is ported to the early '80s in this loose remake. The film follows Dom (Callum McNab), a young man caught up in the enticing world of firms -- soccer gangs who make merry and spar with the supporters of rival teams. Bright and funny,… More

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Unrated,
Directed By
Written By
Nick Love
Genres
Drama
In Theaters
Sep 18, 2009 Wide
Warner Bros.

Critic Reviews

  • Nigel Floyd, Time Out

    Love's second movie about hooligans marks a quantum leap forward from the messy, senseless violence of 'The Football Factory'.

  • Don Groves, sbs.com.au

    The tribal violence of the soccer hooligan.

  • Mike Edwards, What Culture

    A watchable, but disappointing, movie that brings nothing new to the serious topic it addresses.

  • Paul Fairclough, Little White Lies

    The Firm is hardly calculated to convert those who find Love's work brash, clichéd and empty, but there's a good deal of warmth and humour here.

  • Wendy Ide, Times [UK]

    While it doesn't exactly break new ground thematically, this is Love's most accomplished film to date. Like the terrace heroes who are its subjects, it's as good-looking and stylish as it is dangerously seductive.

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  • EightThirty .


    20/08/2010 I enjoyed the hard-knock dialogue, it was quite entertaining to listen to. Well, the fact is it's not good morally, but it's a good flick to see why it's not good to do what it is they did, you know wha' I mean? Another one of those "done… More

  • ernest e


    Fish and chips filmmaking. Useless tasteless pointless. It keeps the same pace and tone up to the very end where they have a little fight. There is a little humor in it but even the BBC can give you better than the firm can. The firm uses a theme that has been used so often that you… More

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