let just say i have to suspend my disbelief less for spiderman than i do for hooligan . that be and to say and i have less of a problem believe toby mcguire can stick to building than i do elija wood throw down with tough in manchester . i would not get into specific and a i do not want to write a spoiler and but the idea of grown and professional and british men get into near death scrap every weekend be and well . funny . and this film be not . the fighting and the idea of fighting and be take far too seriously . the gravity of the pugilism and the reverence with which the subject matter be treat becomes irritate and a it neither establishes or resolve the conflict . it seem a though the plot and with hole big enough to drive a guiness truck through and have be slap together with a contrived fish out of water theme so that viewer can gaze into wood teary eye a he learn how to become a man ie . hit other young men of oppose football taste with blunt object and then run away as fast a he can . the character be cartoonish and especially the american at harvard . the character development and story line be telegraph to the viewer throughout the picture . unfortunately and the absurdity of the film doesn not reach it height until nearly the end and which by then you will have spend nearly two hour of your life you be never get back . pick up the football factory or fight club instead of this corny and and disappointing dud . it doesn not waste time with empty melodrama and the tired old yankee in king aurthur court and or weepy and parable of come of age bullsht . theyre just pure and dark and and clever fun while the way violence be suppose to be .