It's got all the dark cheeky humor of a Guy Ritchie production, but lacks the direction and writing to make it anything more than a cokney comedy with adrenaline.
Definately better than Green Street, but this is a more realistic film. It's humorous and violent. Danny Dyer is great in one of his best film performances. Well worth seeing!!!
This is a good movie,but alot of people say its better then GSH,they are so wrong GSH is way better,but this movie is still worth the buy, If you like these type of movies.
danny dyer in a gentle romantic comedy, playing a surfer from california, ha no heres our danny playing another cockey geezer, whos a football hooligan, we follow hisgang as there aim to be the best and stay the best, looking at the politics and terrace, back street fighting that gives british football a bad name, im not sure if its realistic but seems grimm enough, and gets to its point,
Very raw and its brutality is only surpassed by its surreality. The bandaged man was really something. I loved how it captures the surroundings well, the idea of the firm as heavily more than just a football firm, but a unit as its own, one with an identity separate and linked with the clubs. The humour here is really strange and the dialogue is just badass.
I've always thought of FOOTBALL hooligans as some low, idiotic culture. This movie didn't do much to change my point-of-view.
Danny Dyer does a great job, all the other acting is pretty dry. Other than that the story is pretty surprising.
"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 a laugh! I know what I'd rather do. Tottenham away, love it!"
I've always thought of football/soccer hooligans as some of the most low-brow, idiotic people in the world....and this movie didn't do much to change my mind about that. As pointless as football hooliganism is, it's none-the-less an interesting culture. The Football Factory starts off like most British films....loud techno beats, music video editing and plenty of swearing. But a few things make The Football Factory stand out from the crowd, the main ones being the performances and surprising sense of humor. Danny Dyer owns this movie, but that shouldn't be too much of a surprise since he plays the same character most of the time. He carries the movie extremely well and is helped by a great supporting cast. Director Nick Love surprisingly doesn't go too overboard with the music video style of filmmaking and keeps everything moving along at lightening pace. However, I was expecting the movie to be a lot more violent than it turned out to be. I've seen much, much worse than this. I just don't buy all the brotherhood and belonging shit the story was trying to push. It's an excuse to get piss drunk and fight. Nothing more. Some great performances and nice style can't change the fact that all of this "hooliganism" is over a bunch of men in shorts kicking a little ball around.
The most realistic look at football hooliganism since Gary Oldman's The Firm. Very unlikely to be enjoyed by anyone who doesn't appreciate football 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 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! You've been warned. Danny Dyer is one of the coolest British actors around!
I was not impressed with this movie. Mainly I think it's because this type of movie has been done before and much better. "The Fotball Factory" is another British film about drugs, crime and fights in the style of "Trainspotting" and "Snatch", but "The Fotball Factory" is not as clever, fun, moving or entertaining as the movies I just took up as examples. Skip this one and watch "Trainspotting" again, at least that movie is wort watching over and over again.
There may be a decent film to be made about football violence, but this falls well short. Approaching its subject with little edge or perspective, it merely replicates the mindless yobbery football thugs engage in. At no point are the deeper issues explored, and as a result what transpires is plodding and unimaginative and the film's conclusions add nothing to what is broadly known about the subject already.
a funny, very agressive well acted film about gangs and their obsession with football, beer, women, and rage and thier inability of nort being able to saying anything without swearing all the time.
it is over the top but entertaining none the less.
cautious does contain a lot of verbal language which may offeend some and the dialogue may at time be difcult to understand.
Called Football Factory the actually football content is less than minimal it is more about the needing to belong to something than what they are actually belong to. Typical Nick Love movie in the sense that the emotions are burried and the strong violent top is put on unfortunatly.
It was pretty damn cool actually. I was expecting something kinda shit because these types of movies are starting to get milked. The fighting was awesome, alot more realistic and cooler than Green Street Hooligans. Some very good acting as well, but the dialouge seemed very "script-like". I am guessing that this movie is alot more realistic than your average football hooligan movie.
One of the best movies ever, gives a good look into hooliganism in england and the rest of europe, not for yanks i guess thogh, htey just don't get it. And F*CK GSH with its yankee influence
When you see this movie the next thing you want to do is to punch someone in the face!The fighting combined with awsome music is the icing on the top!I liked Danny Dyer a lot,typical cool english man!lLoved the british accent!GO England!!!
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