green street and a it be call in the uk and or hooligan be a bad film . the story be full of fantastical idea and premise that anyone who live in england and have be to a football match or know the first thing about football will spot immediately . my first main gripe with hooligan be the poor casting of the two main character . don not get me wrong and i like elijah wood and have a great respect for his work and but despite his best effort he struggle to pull off this role . the main motivation for his character be anger at the system and anger at betrayal and however he spend much of the film placid and cheery and only display his pent up aggression in one brief scene towards the end of the film . this link with his look and physique make him a thoroughly unconvincing addition to a gang of football hooligan . at no point during the film be i convince that a ) he could handle himself in a fight against such thug and b ) the firm of thug would accept such a person into their fold . the other main character be play by charlie hunnam . charlie look the part and and be fairly convincing a a thug . unfortunately and be a native of newcastle upon tyne in the north of england and he demonstrate the bad east london accent since dick van dyke try to go cock en y in marry poppins . detail such a this probably will not bother an american audience who will be less attuned to regional dialect in the uk and but be from the uk it be a problem i couldn not ignore and it contribute to ruin the movie for me . the support cast all give convincing performance and be well cast and especially the role of bover . the lad playing this character would have be much more suited to the main role that charlie play . with a film like this and you have to convince the audience that your character be plausible and unfortunately and the casting fail . imagine if you make a film like the godfather and have sean hayes ( jack ) from will and grace play michael corleone part . you would not be convince . the story in hooligan be also full in implausibility . i be no football hooligan and but i be a fantatical football fan . i know how cliquey a group of regular football supporter can be and a such it deem it impossible for a non football fan and who be not a fan of the club in question and be not from the area in question and not even of english nationality to be embrace by a firm who equate to a secret organisation in some severe case . my final and and big and problem with this film and be the way it portray football hooligan . i take objection to the film idea that despite be very violent individual and hooligan be excuse a they live by some sort of code of ethic in their own world and should be admire for be brave and loyal to each other . this be complete rubbish . football hooligan be complete scum . they take football and the national sport of england and use it a an excuse to terrorise and frighten and intimidate people . they only represent a tiny percentage of football fan but give the whole game and people of this country a bad reputation . they be not brave or loyal and they be cowardly and evil . if the gse in this film truly love their club and west ham and why would the devote their life to be a stain on it name . hooligan be an embarrassment to football and to english society . football hooligan do for the reputation of football what hitler do to the reputation of german . although this film try or intend to show the gritty side of football violence . it do nothing more than promote it a some kind of excusable activity for extreme fan of the sport . it do not show the poor innocent by stander at football match who have their day ruin by some idiot throw coin or lighter or glass into the crowd . it do not show the innocent home and property owner who have to put up with graffiti and broken window . it do not show the real fan of football club who suffer indignity and embarrassment when their team supporter be ban from travel to away match or abroad to european game because the thug among them ruin it for everyone . if you want to see a good film about football violence and watch the bbc drama the firm .