Anthony Denham, Calum McNab, Danny Dyer

The Football Factory is more than just a study of the English obsession with football violence, its about men looking for armies to join, wars to fight and places to belong. A forgotten culture of Ang...( read more  read more... )lo Saxon males fed up with being told they're not good enough and using thier fists as a drug they describe as being more potent than sex and drugs put together. Shot in documentery style with the energy and vibrancy of handheld, The Football Factory is frightingly real yet full of painful humour as the four characters extreme thoughts and actions unfold before us.

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R, 88 min.

Directed by: Nick Love

Release Date: January 1, 2004

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DVD Release Date: December 26, 2005

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  • October 1, 2009
    Not a bad film but Nick Love isn't as good a director as he thinks he is. The Business is still his best work but I'm starting to think it was just luck. It?s not that I didn't enjoy this film, it?s just that the characters, as entertaining as they are, are too stereotypical. The...( read more)re's too many 'Leave it outs' & 'Shut up you mugs' in it for me. Good that they make the point that Football hooliganism has nothing to do with football though. The three things us Brits do well are, Queuing, complaining and football hooliganism but I guess a film about the first two would be rubbish. Still, leave it out Mr Love, ain't you seen the firm? You tart! **Interesting how I wrote this review a couple of years ago and now he?s actually remade The Firm! Ha!**
  • June 6, 2009
    Hooligan firm movie £10. Ticket to the game £30. Ticket to Wembley £120. Seeing Danny Dyers head kicked in every ten minutes PRICELESS. For everything else there the 6.37
  • January 18, 2009
    "What else are you gonna do on a Saturday? Sit in your fuckin' armchair wankin' off to Pop Idols? Then try and avoid your wife's gaze as you struggle to come to terms with your sexless marriage? Then go and spunk your wages on kebabs, fruit machines and brasses? Fuck that for ...( read more)a laugh! I know what I'd rather do. Tottenham away, love it!"

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    The most realistic, focused look at football hooliganism since Alan Clarke's The Firm. Very unlikely to be enjoyed by anyone who doesn't appreciate football (and I mean, Football, the most popular sport in the globe, not that thing with fucking helmets) and doesn't understand the hooliganism phenom. The point wasn't to glorify it (how could anyone?), it was to show it for what it really is: working class lads who have nothing to look forward to in their lives but a football match on the weekends. Rough, dirty, and ugly. And Danny Dyer is one of the coolest mothherfuckers around.
  • January 15, 2009
    If I?m honest (and this will sound like I am stating the obvious here) Football hooliganism is very much all this film is about. It offers no moral to the story, like many of the films in this genre, but a very realistic view of what goes on behind the scenes of the game.

    We...( read more)?re used to seeing Danny Dyer in films containing violence and paired up again with Director Nick Love, this film had the potential to be the film of all Football Hooligan films to me. Now I know I'm a Woman and not quite in my teens any more, but anyone who knows me, knows that I prefer lad movies and don't shy away from the violent ones, it was a watchable film, but didn't haven't anything great about it.
  • August 9, 2007
    This movie is very crazy...high testosterone. But, I enjoyed it...I covered my eyes on some violent scenes.
  • October 30, 2009
    great film!!and true to life
  • September 23, 2009
    What else you gonna do on a Saturday? well this movie is about what to do when you are raised in this kind of life of a firm and football!! and I do like this football about firm movies but this one was a little dodgy!! we have the main guy going thru a life stage in front of us...( read more) and in the end he decides he likes it the way it is and keep it at it!! Bollocks!!

    The Football Factory is more than just a study of the English obsession with football violence, its about men looking for armies to join, wars to fight and places to belong. A forgotten culture of Anglo Saxon males fed up with being told they're not good enough and using thier fists as a drug they describe as being more potent than sex and drugs put together. Shot in documentery style with the energy and vibrancy of handheld, The Football Factory is frightingly real yet full of painful humour as the four characters extreme thoughts and actions unfold before us.
  • September 21, 2009
    If Green Street is West Ham - polished and Premier League, this film is Millwall: a lower division that can still pull punches but doesn't learn from its mistakes. Dyer plays the same cockney wide-boy he always seems to play and even after having the shit kicked out of him he doe...( read more)sn't change. Green Street showed how pointless this kind of violence is, this film seems to revel in it. It's still watchable and the fights are more brutal, but Green Street comes out of this battle the winner.
  • September 14, 2009
    brutal footballl hooliganism.. good show¬
  • August 3, 2009
    realy need to see it neva knew there waz a movie like dis

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  • shortpantsromance
    July 19, 2007
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  • hayleyovbhall
    May 25, 2007
    Definately better than Green Street dont care wot any1 says. Danny Dyer is a legend. Fuckin Class.
  • xOliverx
    April 18, 2007
    Best hooligan film,of all time,much better then GSE
    Danny dyer makes this film a classic,Ruins GSE to shits,chelsea Fc all the way mates,to u americans i doubt u even get the meaning of it,well considering u are yanks yea,just a brilliant film id say,sex,drugs,alcohol,cigarettes and violence cant get any better then that bruv's
  • rostron8
    April 18, 2007
    this were proper good. us brits doin what we're best at...fightin
  • samjohnstone
    April 17, 2007
    totaly fukin awesome-I dont think yanks will get it tho
  • JoshTownsend
    February 19, 2007
    Brilliant! great film, better than green street which is the shit virsion of football factory! it aint bad tho. The directer Nick love is brilliant
  • villaman1976
    January 3, 2007
    good movie but not as good as id and the firm not the stupid tom cruise movie either the football film from the 80s starring gary oldman
  • JINJANINJASXC
    January 3, 2007
    ive got a big nob for all da ladies who wish to use it as they please..... THAT IS MY COMMENT Kris x
  • rachmanc06
    December 29, 2006
    i love this film wiv sxc danny dyer but this is not as gd as green street charlie hunnam makes that film n it so sad wen he dies:'(
  • adamrandle
    December 22, 2006
    this film is not as good as greenstreet but it is mint film , apart that its about chelsea scum hu think there hard but apart from that wot a film !!

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