The movie opens with Elijah Wood's character (Matt Buckner) being kicked out of Harvard for a drug offense that his roommate committed which Matt took the fall for. He takes this time to visit his sister who lives 'across the pond' in London where he meets her brother in-law Pete (played by Charlie Hunnam). Pete is the leader of a group football fan hooligans known as the Green Street Elite or GSE. There are a handful of violent gang altercations between the rival football gangs. These fights are well shot, believable, and scary and make you cringe. However, by the end of it I actually felt like I was standing right there with them. There is also a great message about loyalty and friendship.
This movie had a great deal of profanity, and probably twice as much if I could translate their British dialect. But I really enjoyed picking up some new terminology. And despite all of the fight scenes, and well, maybe because all of the fight scenes, I really enjoy this film from start to finish.
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