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United Kingdom 2004
Directed by
Nick Love
93 minutes
Rated MA

Reviewed by
Bernard Hemingway
2 stars

The Football Factory

Synopsis: Tommy Johnson (Danny Dyer) lives for the weekend, getting together with his mates at the pub, doing some drugs and partaking in soccer hooliganism - organized battles between gangs who methodically beat each other up on and off the terraces. The up and coming Millwall versus Chelsea FA Cup Final promises to be the punch-up of his life but the drugs and drink are getting to Tommy.

Wot a fkn cracker film about a lotta cunts wot like to av a bit a fun and get pissed and nock the shite out eech uvver on the wee'end. It aint got nuthin to do wiv football but is jest about wot a lot of fkn lads do Souf of the Thames wen they aint got nuffin els to fkn do. God save the fkn Queen in fkn deed.

Theys a lot of smart-arse pansies wot'll compare this film to Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels or Trainspotting and wank on about how "it explores the comradeship and divisions of a violent sub-culture in transition" or sum shite like that but the best fing is to av a few largers wiv yer mates an go an av a larf cos it aint got no nancy boys for the gurls to fkn ogle but is jest about fukn, feeving and fyten as they say.

By the way. It was fkn great to see Dudley Sutton who plays the old geezer Tommy's grandad. I used to see im on the telly when I was a yung'un and he always played a smarmy villin but he's a silly old tosser in this film wots tryin to get to Australia and take Tommy wiv im to save im from is dead-end ways.

 

 

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