The Football Factory (2004)

• Year: 2004
• Released: 14 May 2004
• Country: United States, United Kingdom
• Adwords: 1 win & 1 nomination
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0385705/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_football_factory
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English
• MPA Rating: R
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Sport
• Runtime: 91 min
• Writer: John King, Nick Love
• Director: Nick Love
• Cast: Danny Dyer, Frank Harper, Tamer Hassan
• Keywords: based on novel or book, sports, london, england, drugs, football (soccer),

6.8/10

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The Football Factory is more than just a study of the English obsession with football violence; it’s about men looking for armies to join, wars to fight and places to belong. A forgotten culture of Anglo-Saxon males fed up with being told they’re not good enough and using their fists as a drug they describe as being more potent than sex and drugs put together. Shot in documentery style with the energy and vibrancy of handheld, The Football Factory is frighteningly real yet full of painful humour as the four characters’ extreme thoughts and actions unfold before us.

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Good movie

The Football Factory is movie about football (soccer) fans. Since they seem to be more interested in fighting than in actually watching the games this is certainly no sports film so don’t let the title fool you. It’s also based upon a novel that I haven’t even heard of, but that could perhaps be because I’m in Sweden.

The Football Factory is a very episodic movie. Mostly it works, but sometimes I felt like I wanted to spend more time with main character Tommy Johnson or that they should at least had focused on fewer characters. Sometimes I felt that a scene was working really well, but the story quickly focused on other things. As I said, more often than not the episodic feel works fine, but not all the time.

As in almost all English movies the acting’s great. From minor characters to main characters… they feel real. I especially think the voice over sounds very authentic: it’s Tommy speaking, not actor Danny Dryer reading.

I think this is a good movie, it’s rather violent and upsetting at times, but also funny and entertaining.

Nick Love’s First And Perhaps Last Great Film

An auteur is regarded as a director who has a running theme throughout their resume . For example Robert Aldrich is considered a ” sadistic ” director and whileis films may be tame compared to the video nasty era the likes of TOO LATE THE HERO and ULZANA’S RAID do still come across as compellingly blood thirsty and violent . The films of Martin Scorsese usually involve protagonists being caught in an existentialist quicksand where the more they try and find their goal in life the more they sink into a problem of their own making . Let’s not get too caught up in the auteur theory however because much of it is simply down to movie studios assigning scripts to well suited directors ” Hey Marty , we’ve got a script here featuring a deranged loner wanting to join the mob . Bob and Leonardo have already signed on the dotted line . You interested ? ” . Nevertheless it’s obvious that Nick Love in the years ahead will be honoured in this fashion if only because his films feature blackly comical stories of working class British males fed up with the state of the nation

In terms of style and execution THE FOOTBALL FACTORY isn’t a million miles away from the likes of TRAINSPOTTING and TWO SMOKING BARALLS . It’s very quirky , rather episodic , fairly violent and oh so bloody entertaining . You could say it contains all the flaws of recent British movies like an overuse of the words ” FAHKIN’ ” and ” KANT ” but we are talking about the notorious Chelsea headhunters football hooligans and there are admittedly some unlikely coincidences involved such as two of the headhunters burgling a house that belongs to… but unlike Love’s later OUTLAW you never feel at how contrived these plot twists are which probably says much of the film’s entertainment factor . It could also be that the original source was strong in the first place since I get the feeling that Love totally fails as a screenwriter of original material , certainly the problem with OUTLAW was an underdeveloped script with very underwritten characters who lacked a recognisable motive . Here it’s obvious but never overstated that the motivation of becoming a hooligan is to belong to something . And unlike in OUTLAW when something funny happens in THE FOOTBALL FACTORY you genuinely do laugh instead of scratching your head wondering if in fact it’s supposed to be funny

I have to confess that I’ve seen the feature films of Love back to front . I saw OUTLAW when it opened in the cinema in March , I saw THE BUSINESS a couple of months after that and saw THE FOOTBALL FACTORY for the first time last week . If Nick Love had released his films in that order then I would have said that here is a film maker who is really hitting his stride as his films just get better and better . Unfortunately what this means in reality is that Love is on a downhill curve and that nothing has come close to matching THE FOOTBALL FACTORY . One can only hope that the big screen remake of THE SWEENEY , a TV show well remembered for its mixture of black comedy and violence , will see a return to form for an underrated auteur

Thug life with Nick Love

Nick Love has to be one of the shoddiest directors working in Britain today. All of his films have a depressing, fatalistic air to them, lacking in decent characters and character intrigue. All of them feel slightly false, in that there’s something hollow about them. When you see somebody acting in a Nick Love film, you always feel that they’re acting rather than believing in the character.

This is my fourth Love film, following on from THE BUSINESS (poor), OUTLAW (hugely disappointing) and THE SWEENEY (acceptable at best). It’s the simplistic story of a football hooligan and the friends and rivals in his life. The film boasts an early, career-making turn from Cockney geezer Danny Dyer, who’s frankly annoying in this one, playing alongside the likes of Dudley Sutton and Tamer Hassan.

Love’s own script is the worst thing about this. Unsurprisingly he has an air for thuggish-sounding dialogue but the dialogue is just random expletive-filled insults throughout. It’s hardly Tarantino, more like a load of juvenile nonsense from somebody with a clear lack of talent. THE FOOTBALL FACTORY is the kind of film that makes you despair for state of the British film industry.