Matcollis
This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.
BroadcastChic
Excellent, a Must See
AutCuddly
Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,
rbalon
There are several other people out there calling it a masterpiece. It's not. Many other sports films like Creed and Rocky Balboa are examples of masterpieces.
Something's very wrong here. Don't fall into the bait people. This movie is terrible. Positive reviews are from fake profiles. This movie is an utter pile of lies from a fraudulent French company which does not look into history and even they're lacking total lore in United Passions. This doesn't even deserve to win a single Oscar award. Why would it win any? Such a stupid idea one reviewer on this movie on Metacritic said. Poor quality of the drama and the script looks like it was written by an unprofessional script writer. Plotholes, yes they are there. Watch outUnnecessary blushed romance? What? Really? As a fan of football, I can surely tell that I am so disappointed with this work. Do not be swayed by positive criticism. They are just leading you to a dangerous end.
Just a box office bomb just for the laughs
United Passions: A Football Story of Lies, Unread History and Lore. I can tell you now that it SUCKS. Ignore the spammers of the love button.
Faisal Sabawi
Where do I even begin with this movie? I guess I'll start with the cinematography. The camera remains in focus for most of the time and I'd say the authenticity of the players in the on set shots seemed convincing enough. Everything else was complete tripe.Let's just forget for a second that FIFA as an organization have numerous times over the course of their history proved to be heavily corrupted and excessively money greedy and their portrayal as saints is essentially down to the fact that FIFA funded this movie. Let's forget all the controversy and allegations Mr Blatter faced for match fixing, bribery and inappropriate conduct for a second and take this movie at face value. This movie is a boring drawn out muddled up tale about how everyone who likes FIFA is god himself and everyone who doesn't is a racist, misogynist. No really, even the subtly in the antagonists cant be found a single bit.That man that Rimet's daughter was talking to a good 20 minutes into the movie only had one scene and in that scene of course it is revealed that he can't fathom the "Negroes" playing the sport because he LITERALLY STATES THEY ARE TOO STUPID. WAY TO GO FOR SUBTLETY GUYS. Not to mention how the only real crutch in the entire movie are the people against FIFA, who I assume we're supposed to see as bad people, but in all seriousness, they voice a lot of opinions us the football loving general public share. Wilcox questions Blatter numerous times about money laundering and why Blatter felt the need to protect such corrupt officials. ARE WE MEANT TO HATE WILCOX FOR UPSETTING OUR 'PRECIOUS BLATTER? If anything I begin to sympathize with Wilcox much more than any other 'protagonist' in this confusing story.And if you think these harsh opinions were shared only by myself this film holds the record for the worst grossing film in US history on it's opening night, making a measly 980 dollars and overall losing the production company 26 million dollars. Even the man who played Blatter went online to apologize for his role as the infamous chairman. When you have actors literally going out of their own way to apologize for the disgrace of a movie they took part in, you know you've messed up.All in all this movie was doomed to fail from the start. A pointless 2 hour dare I say "movie" surrounding the creation and formation of FIFA doesn't even sound like a bad idea, but when the organization itself is funding this project, there's only one real direction it's gonna be heading in. Dry and stale acting and a script stuffed with ranting like dialogue made this movie experience for me and for many others. Shameful propaganda.
elijaprice
Why on earth was this film ever made? Who did they think would care? Apparently 90% of the budget was supplied by FIFA, which just leaves me wondering who the hell put up the other 10%.By turns hilarious and nauseating, this shining great turd of a self-congratulatory vanity project is so ridiculous that if someone had told me it was a parody, I would have believed them. It's the kind of movie that makes you want to hurt members of your own family just to give you an excuse to stop watching. It tells the 'story' of those unsung heroes of the world, FOOTBALL FAT CATS. Who, apparently, are all saints. Why? Just because. Don't argue. And they're ENTITLED to luxury goddammit, because they're making dreams come true. It just so happens that the dreams are their own, and those dreams consist of drinking champagne and private jets and staying in luxury hotels - yes, in a multi-million dollar movie starring famous and respected actors, this film literally has the cheek to include not one, but many lines of dialogue attempting to justify football officials indulging themselves. Sepp Blatter, cast as a sort of modern day crusader (presumably by himself, I can't imagine why anyone else would have), played by Tim Roth, is given close-ups and swelling emotional incidental music as if he is some kind of hero, but nobody, least of all the filmmakers, seems to have any idea why. It's honestly like a propaganda film biography of el presidente designed to encourage the cult of personality in some tinpot banana republic. ('Look, he pays the wages out of his own pocket when all others around him are corrupt! He is such a man of the people that he knows the cleaning lady's name!')It ends up just being bizarre, and you feel sorry for pretty much everyone involved with it. Also, weirdly, this film portrays all English people as racist, sexist, stuck-up tossers. Why? Is it coz they wouldn't join FIFA's gentleman's club 100 years ago? Seems a little petty.
bdhman77
Too many people writing a review here are just simply trolling to destroy the film & are allowing their biases & passions about FIFA to stand in the way of seeing a really good film. Given that the film was financed by FIFA, I wasn't exactly expecting to get any objective story about FIFA anymore than I was expecting films like "Zero-Minus-Thirty", "American Sniper" & "Act of Valor" to objective about US military adventurism abroad. I saw those other 3 films and not only where they PENTAGON & US DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE PROPAGANDA but they were not very good films in terms of acting, script cinematography or anything else. Just like "1492 Conquest For Paradise" wasn't exactly the most historically accurate & objective film ever made by Christopher Columbus & his voyages in the Americas, this is not going to be a an objective film about FIFA. But one thing it does have in common with "1492 Conquest For Paradise" is IT'S A GOOD FILM. If you just pay attention to film for what it is, as a film, and pay attention to the costumes, acting (great performances by 3 great all-stars_, directing, cinematography & everything else that people usually judge a film by -- it's a good film. You time will not be wasted watching this women, you will learn a few things, and I'm pretty sure everyone is smart enough to pick-up propaganda when they see one, but the point is appreciating this film for what it is -- a good film.Just pretend it's based on a fiction story for a couple of hours & believe me you will appreciate this film a lot more. Otherwise you passions & biases about FIFA will not allow you to see this film for what it is. Good Film, great acting, great cinematography, great costumes, interesting takes on Football history & you will appreciate Tim Gerard & the Jurrasic Park Fellow. It's worth to watch it -- Even if you have to use your Student ID to get a discount card or go during a matinée time so you don't have to full price, I'd say do it! Because the Film was too well made to simply dismissed because how some of us may feel about FIFA.
