Absolutely brilliant

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

I reckon this film shows the world of the football hooligan. Football fans were a bit different in Ireland where hurling is the national sport and so garners most of the excitement. I like this film for the humanity, not being at all a sports fan myself.

This movie has a lot of thrilling action scenes, which get your pulse up and make you want to join a firm yourself, but then it reminds you too, why you shouldn't. The whole atmosphere of a fan-group is well transported to the viewer and the chants will be stuck in your head for at least the next couple of days, even if you are no supporter of West Ham United.Although the movie has its weak points story-wise and doesn't show the whole picture of its subject - the hooligans, I really enjoyed it and can only recommend it to every football fan or person with a high threshold for violence.I also liked the performances of almost all actors in the movie. Especially Charlie Hunnam as Pete Dunham, who stood out for me because his way of speech, his body language and his movements suited the whole scenery. He reminded me a lot of his later performance as Jax Teller in Sons of Anarchy, which I can suggest you if you liked him in this movie. + Powerful action + Great atmosphere + Believable characters One sided take on fandom and ultraismThe end felt a bit too constructedA lot about Bovver feels very unreasonable and not like a real person (No native speaker, excuse my mistakes)

There must be something redeeming about British football, but I have yet to find it. Media representations, both factual and fictional, seem largely concerned with bad behavior by young (and not so young) males. (To be fair, male American football fans aren't a whole lot better, just less violent.} Elijah Wood portrays Matt, a young American student at Harvard who is falsely accused of drug-dealing and expelled. That plot gets lost early on, but it does get him to London, where he bunks with his sister (Claire Forlani, a Brit, herself playing an American), now married to a Brit. Her brother-in-law, Pete (Charlie Hunnam), a football hooligan, is also on the scene. He is delegated to help Matt adjust to life in London, an assignment Pete is initially not thrilled about. Events spiral downhill from there. Wood is well-cast as the straight arrow Harvard boy who (for whatever reason) takes the fall for his well-connected, politically ambitious, drug dealer roommate. He is thrust into the violent Hooligan culture of London and takes to it. Hunnam, who has been criticized for his accent, realizes that film is an international commodity, and English is the language of commercially successful films. Actors have to be understood everywhere, not just locally. Most of his mates don't get that, and it makes much of the dialogue problematic. Forlani is given little to do and does little with it. This could have been a brilliant film; Wood always has the potential to make his vehicles be so. But it does not achieve that goal, and British football is the culprit. It is hard to sympathize with anything which finds its inspiration in a sport typified by the unruly behavior of its advocates.

Green Street is a 2005 British-American independent drama film about football hooliganism. It was directed by Lexi Alexander and stars Elijah Wood and Charlie Hunnam. In the United Kingdom, it is called Green Street. In the United States, Australia and South Africa, the film is called Green Street Hooligans.After being wrongfully expelled from Harvard University, American Matt Buckner flees to his sister's home in England. Once there, he is befriended by her charming and dangerous brother-in-law, Pete Dunham, and introduced to the underworld of British football hooliganism. Matt learns to stand his ground through a friendship that develops against the backdrop of this secret and often violent world. 'Green Street Hooligans' is a story of loyalty, trust and the sometimes brutal consequences of living close to the edge.