I Am Hooligan

Not a lot to say apart from truly awful in every way.

I don't know why people make trash like this.

The funniest stuff in this film are the fight scenes, hilarious. The so called top boy in this tiny little limp crew is about as threatening, convincing and intimidating as rag doll.

Going to Manchester 6 handed, they would have been eaten, chewed up and spat out onto the 57 in 10 seconds. The whole thing truly laughable.

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.

If you get past the first 15 mins you have clearly no respect for yourself and enjoy being tortured by shoddy filmmaking and acting so bad a pre school nativity play would put it to shame.

Wanna see a movie made for a few hundred quid and them getting their mates to act in it for free? Then watch this

Whoever edited this was on gear because it was all over the place and he couldn't keep it still on one shot for more than a few seconds. Even during the slow talking scenes it's all over the place. Chopping to another useless angle speaking of useless angles, Guess it could have been the camera mans Fault as well because i'm pretty sure they employed a kid with A,D,D to film the thing. There were some very dodgy dutch angles and points where the camera was zoomed right in on peoples faces for no reason, i'm guessing his past experience before making crappy football hooligan films was making the erotic kind of movies my dad used to hide in his sock drawer. There's no reason for close ups that are that close to the actors face.

The colour correction was all over the place, one shot it was dark the next really bright even in the same room they couldn't keep consistency

Same with the sound editing. In some points i could hear the background better than the cast. Then again with the awful acting this might have been done on purpose.. It all felt very unnatural and uncomfortable to watch.

The plot is just another box standard hooligan movie but its done so bad..is so bad it's not even "so bad it's good bad" kinda thing it's just bad .

The acting is beyond terrible, the production is a complete mess and it feels cheap dirty and not very well made.

Also Who ever directed this tried to pay homage to (or copy parts of ) clockwork orange. There were a few scenes that stood out where you could see this. One when they are walking by the river and another when they are having a fight in a barn and classical music is playing amongst a few others in the film. I'm sure if stanley kubrick would have still been alive he would have been very impressed with the directors shoddy cheap nasty shots that showed no talent whatsoever behind them and completely b@stardized his work.

Poor sod was probably rolling in his grave when this was being made. If you are gonna copy or pay homage to someone do it right and put some effort into it. Sticking on some random classical music on while they fight another gang or playing the music from the clockwork orange film while they walk down the river footpath is just being lazy and cringy seeing though the rest of your film looks like it was made on special offer for £19.99

Should you watch this online ... no. Save your bandwidth and watch something good.

If your friend gives you the dvd you'll get more fun out of it using it as a frisbee and he's probably not a friend at all for lending it to you.

Best off just binning it.

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?

Terrible slow boring predicable. Dubbed in places the film jumps all over place never placing any meaning to the scenes or characters none of which hold your attention.The fight scenes are laughable guys rolling on top of each other. Plenty of laughs sadly none of which were intentional a film study in amateur dramatics and poor film making.2/10 for the acting of the lead lad someday with a better cast he could shine.Indie films still deliver very little for it's viewers, this film is just one more on the ever growing scrap heap.Terrible slow boring predicable rubbish with yet another tired old British gangster yarn but told badly,acted badly,and written poorly.