I Am Hooligan

Before I get to critical, let me just say the story isn't BAD! It could be a decent story if it was executed in any way better. Anyways,

The audio was amazing. Sometimes you couldn't hear the dialogue at ALLLLL because the actors just whisper. Sometimes you can't hear cause the music is at the same level as the dialogue. And sometimes you can't hear because they forgot to add music. "How do you know they meant to add music?" Well, my friends and I had to watch with subtitles because it's British. Deep British. That plus the bad audio means you can't understand a thing.

The acting was stale. What more do you want me to say?

The cinematography was excellent. We'd go through like 5 different shots for each scene. Half of them would be so saturated and edited, that it genuinely looked like it was out of the matrix. The other half you ask? Not edited at all. In one scene we'd go from the matrix, to something absolutely overexposed.

Well, this was pretty awful, a cheaper-than-ever hooligan drama obviously put on the video shelves to rip-off the success of the GREEN STREET films among others. It's a tough watch and the only good thing I can say about it is that it takes place in a wide variety of different real-world locations which at least gives it more realism than some of these no-budgeters. The story is about an annoying kid who is manipulated into becoming a violent hooligan by some of his dodgy friends, and the violence that ensues. THE BILL star Mark Wingett plays the lad's dad in many drawn-out domestic violence scenes that do nothing aside from pad out the running time.

Shot on someone's video camera, shocking actor choices, terrible acting, the lighting and sound is shocking. Doesn't make sense. Unrealistic interpretation of football hooligans. Would not recommend but it was worth watching for entertainment purposes.

One of the worst films I've ever seen. To compare it with Clockwork Orange is beyond ridiculous

Absolute rubbish

Steven M Smith's second feature I Am Hooligan is miles away in quality from his debut effort Hooligans at War, which would be like comparing a smack to the face to a kick in the fellas.

However, I liked this one, genuinely. It starts off slow and predictable, but it then begins to have something. A interesting'ish' story develops and we have a decent, if clichéd, troubled youth picture it seems. Passable, but then something batty happens in the third act and I'm suddenly starting to think, hey, some passion was put into this one. It might not work, but they tried, and usually that's all I ask from this kind of Asda shelf fodder.

The Kubrick references were cute as well and there were some good performances overall. Could have had more violence, more of da humping and a finer tuned sense of humour, but all in due time son.

I mean, how well did your last film do?