The Football Factory

2004 "What else you gonna do on a Saturday?"
6.7| 1h31m| R| en
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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.

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GamerTab That was an excellent one.
Manthast Absolutely amazing
Iseerphia All that we are seeing on the screen is happening with real people, real action sequences in the background, forcing the eye to watch as if we were there.
Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
ljubonni Very funny at the same time and sad movie! Good story, good scenes shots, great humor, good actors.I now imagine what a rivalry in England, in London! Chelsea, Milwall, Tottenham Hotspur, West Ham, Arsenal ... What else to I work on Saturdays at 16 h is my favorite quote from the movie!You may be reading this as you seem funny, but I watched this movie 15 times:)) It is much better than the films on similar topics such as green street hooligans ...All in all, highly recommend this movie football fans, who love beer, action and good old English humor.Enjoy!
wormser bronx In my opinion, it's a shame what the director made with that excellent book. Of course it's a hard task to fulfill expectations making an adaption of a book, however, the movie created here is just awful. The overall message of the novel is simply ignored... what is left are some names of the characters and the titles of the sequences. The movie is superficial and gives only half-as*ed hints at deeper meanings presented in the book... If you have read the book already, DO NOT watch this movie... if you want to see a superficial, flat and wannabe-cool movie then go ahead... It's a abuse of otherwise good devices, on the level of film-making, as well literal meanings.
darkenchantment-1 this is yet another example of why the films made in the UK SUCK a typical British film, full of scum bags, swearing, drugs, violence, football.. it seems this is the only thing British film makers seem to understand and it makes me sick.all characters look the same, sound the same, and swear in almost every sentence... was this written by some scum bag baghead on the dole? seems like it.the sad thing is, this does reflect what people are like in england. But i'll stick to watching American films, a country that actually understands how to make a film.
jmbellin Many will want to know how this compares to Green Street Hooligans. The two stories are handled quite differently. The Football Factory has almost a black comic feel to it. GSH is really the story of one young man's descent into a violent environment and is an emotional drama. TFF has more of the rhythm of a machine gun, with a, great, very high energy music soundtrack keeping it pulsate along the way.Perhaps not as emotionally deeply felt as GSH, TFF keeps you in the thoughts and feelings of those in the gang. It makes it much harder to feel empathy for its characters (as each of them are all aware and enjoy the catharticism of the violent lifestyle), yet incredibly you do. The fact that it also is also very funny in an intended ironic way (much in the way that the protagonist in Sunset Boulevard narrates the story already having already been murdered), this film has that same knowing irony that also keeps the film bubbling.I really enjoyed the ride in this one.