After being wrongfully expelled from Harvard undergrad Matt Buckner moves in with his sister in London where he meets football hooligan Pete Dunham, who introduces him to his rough tribal world of football Hooliganism. Green Street Hooligans' is a story of loyalty, trust and the sometimes brutal consequences of living close to the edge.
The script is a jumble of caricatures and cliches.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
October 27, 2005
[Alexander] is a better anthropologist than dramatist and her snapshot of this culture is more revealing than the story crafted around it.
Cinema em Cena
April 02, 2006
Hunnam e Wood exibem imensa segurança ao carregarem o filme, que também desperta nosso interesse através da análise dos motivos que levam pessoas comuns à violência das torcidas organizadas.
Detroit Free Press
October 21, 2005
There's a good movie to be made about the violent world of British soccer, or football, as it's called on the other side of the pond. This isn't it.
Oregonian
November 18, 2005
At least three writers collaborated on a script that drums out loudly its themes of loyalty, honor and revenge, and the finished product dances quickly enough between cliches to make for passable entertainment.
Variety
October 11, 2005
Pic amply demonstrates that Alexander -- director of Johnny Flynton, 2003 Oscar nominee for dramatic short -- has the chops to bring a fresh take to onscreen rough stuff.
Arizona Daily Star
December 01, 2005
Nothing hits harder, or with less tact, than the overriding message, that Matt is really looking for a surrogate family.
It's what you thought Fight Club was going to be, before it went in a whole other (and far more interesting) direction.
rec.arts.movies.reviews
October 20, 2005
German kickboxer-turned-director Lexi Alexander's brutal, unsparing portrait of disaffected youth running rampant amid the football stands and terraces of jolly old England.
