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22 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 88Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThen I realized the movie's point is that someone like this nerdy Harvard boy might be transformed in a fairly short time into a bloodthirsty gang fighter. The message is that violence is hard-wired into men, if only the connection is made.
- 80Film ThreatFilm ThreatA great film because of it's realism and the ability to show viewers a world that exists even today, but not everyone knows about.
- 70VarietyJoe LeydonVarietyJoe LeydonUnvarnished verisimilitude, visceral impact and vividly evoked emotional and physical extremes distinguish Hooligans, the impressive debut feature by German-born helmer Lexi Alexander.
- 70L.A. WeeklyScott FoundasL.A. WeeklyScott FoundasPlaying something of a cipher who reinvents himself as the occasion demands, Wood is unusually well cast, but it's Hunnam, with a psychotic twinkle in his eye, who turns the movie on whenever he's onscreen.
- 50The Hollywood ReporterThe Hollywood ReporterViewers hoping to understand the senseless phenomenon of football hooliganism would do better to rent Alan Clarke's nearly 20-year-old "The Firm."
- 50The A.V. ClubNathan RabinThe A.V. ClubNathan RabinIt loses its superficial charm during a labored third act that gets bogged down in tired, groan-inducing subplots.
- 50Village VoiceVillage VoiceHunnam, whose cockney ranges from dodgy to downright Caine-ian, mutes Gary Oldman's bestial mouth-froth (in Clarke's 1988 The Firm), becoming the prettiest, most articulate, bloodthirsty thug ever to put lip to lager.
- 50The New York TimesManohla DargisThe New York TimesManohla DargisGreen Street Hooligans, an accidental advertisement for Alcoholics Anonymous and the somnolent pleasures of cricket that, in the end, is mostly about the pleasures, both visceral and visual, of violence.
- 40EmpireChris Hewitt (1)EmpireChris Hewitt (1)A surprisingly rose-tinted look at a subculture that really should have been stamped out some time ago.
- 38Chicago TribuneChicago TribuneThis is "Fight Club" without the irony or the metaphysical gaming.