It's A Good Watch (The Football Factory (DVD))

Member Name: NottsFan

Product:	The Football Factory (DVD)
Date:	16/06/07 (709 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Quite Realistic

Disadvantages: Setting A Bad Example

This film is about football violence other wise known as hooliganism. This film is about Tommy who likes to fight other clubs and has a vicious set of friends. He is part of Chelsea football clubs hooligan firm. The other films of this nature are Green Street and I.D. This was made in 2004 and has a certificate of 18. The fight come towards the end of the film and has a big build up before that. You see them living the hooligan lifestyle of watching football, fighting other fans, getting drunk at the pub, and having a lot sex with girls. This film runs for 87 minutes and has excitement running all the way through it. This film takes a look at the average hooligan on a Saturday. I hope this film doesn’t encourage children to copy the acts. With any luck it will give them the opposite effect and make them fink why would i get involved in fight and get injured, or something along those lines.

Unfortunately this film states just what hooliganism is about. Although it is stating to die down now it still exist. So is a bad thing to make a film on it? I am not sure. It certainly isn’t a film to show your children. One aim in these kinds of films is just to show people what kind of things does go on sometimes and although people will strongly object to this kind of thing they still might find it interesting.

I strongly believe this is a good film. If I rated it out of 10, it would give it around a 6.5 – 7. It is clearly not one of the best films around but is a good one. The fighting scenes can be very realistic under the circumstances, while the settings are very good like under the viaduct near the stadium. One disappointment about this film is the storyline. It is not the best. Green Street, a very similar film to football factory has a much better storyline and therefore maybe a better film but it is very hard to judge. There are some things I do not like in Green street also though.

The Actors
The actors do there job very good. Not many actors could have acted this film out. its a very different film to act. In the cast there is Danny Dyer who has done a lot of work recently on football charity matches and hooligan programs on Bravo and the other main actors are Frank Harper, Tamer Hasan, Roland Manookian and Neil Maskell who are all good actors. Danny Dyer is very convincible in this film and also boasts the perfect face and attitude to play his character. Danny Dyer is very much in interest in Hooliganism. He has created a spin-off series called The real football factories. Danny dyer in this programme goes over to some football teams firm and just has a chat with them and witnesses some things what happen.

Story
The main character Tommy Johnson (Danny dyer) is part of the head-hunters which is Chelsea’s hooligan firm. His best friend is Bob (neil maskell) and Zeberdee (roland manookian). He live for away days at clubs like Cardiff and west ham. But most of all Millwall. His life is full of drinking, sex and fighting while he doesn’t see much of a football being kicked. When they find out they are playing Millwall in a cup-tie they cant wait to go there for a fight. Tommy Johnson eventually takes too much drugs and starts going crazy and seeing things but then by the end he gets all right and goes to fight the Millwall firm. The fight looks realistic and the director should be given credit for that. There are a few fight throughout this film one fight is against spurs another stoke and lastly and the biggest against millwall.

Fans of the film
this is a very popular film but does have a strict target audience. For hooligans them selves they would love it. Its perfect for them but then again any film of this nature would be perfect for them.
Critics have condemned this film saying it will create more and more violence on a Saturday at football matches. I you wouldn't want that with tournaments like the world cup coming up.

Target Audience
Most people I know who like this film are between the age of 15 to 30 and are men. I find women don’t like this film at all and for anyone to watch this film under the age of 15 is wrong and might make them copy this in the future

Personal Thoughts
I really do like this film and i think it is interesting to actually see for sure what hooligans get up to. It give you a good insight into what happens. The fights are very realistic and it is a exciting film from start to finish. I think this film is more of a documentary than a film as there is a narrator. It is different to green Street in many ways. If you watch them both the two main characters are completely different. I want to see more films like this come out. They are good films.

Summary
This film is good but the verdict depends on the audience and what there taste is. I hpoe this doesn't give children ideas as i think there might be more films of this genre

The DVD extras
There are a number of extras to keep you happy there’s a audio commentary to show what the actors/directors think of the scenes, there’s a making of which is good for a film like this, you can see the alternate opening scene which is interesting, you can watch to fight fighting scenes again, deleted scenes are always a good thing to watch and then there’s the normal trailer so the DVD has done well to get all that and make it more worth the money in shop and websites. It might have helped the sales. This also gives you the right to buy and watch this if you haven’t already

Buy It
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Summary: If you are not easily offended you will enjoy this a little