I Am Hooligan

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.

I have seen some bad stuff lately, but oh my days this is an absolute atrocity.

I like how people compare it to A Clockwork Orange, I think the comparison was that at some point Stanley Kubrick went for a crap, thus may be what that crap evolved into.

I appreciate low budget films have a struggle, they have to strive to be something, this is just abysmal.

Ruling out pool cue, golf buddy cam, and headboard cam which are without a doubt creative, if not shocking additions to this otherwise pathetic effort at filmmaking, this film offers nothing, nothing of any value to anyone in any way shape or form.

I knew it was going to be bad as soon as it started, the stock effect I AM HOLLIGAN title credit on some sort of slapdash background (like kids wallpaper), then the slow walk through the council estate of its lead, the same walk you will see half a dozen times.

Then the train, oh yes the train seen through the railway fence, you must see this same train going back and forth 100 times, exactly the same footage.

I feel bad reviewing this so harshly, as my good friend has a role in it, and I told then how bad the film was.

The film has not one endearing feature, no message, brings nothing new to the table, it's just a complete dogs abortion all round.

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?

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.

Why Why Why does Smith insist in churning out this rubbish..The dvds al end up in landfill sites he should be prosecuted under the enviromental act.Give it up now Smith, your motto is 'never give up' but PLEASE RECONSIDER. YOU FILMS ARE AWFUL MATE. STOP HUMILIATING YOURSELF AND OTHERS WITH THIS STUFF.