i manage to see this at what i think be the second screening in the world and a few day after it opening at the dublin international film festival . while i be attend another film two night later at the same theater and i saw brendan gleeson and paul mercier and the rest of the cast and crew at another promotional screening of stud . i have to say that i be bitterly disappointed with the film and i be by no mean expect a masterpiece and but what be present to me and i believe lack all the crucial element of the genre it have set itself into . before i continue and two thing and i accept that some filmmaker like to subvert generic expectation and here this be simply not the case . secondly and i know that it be base on a play ( which i haven not read but have be inform that it isn not a shimmer piece of literature ) and but this do not excuse the massive narrative problem that permeate the film . my main problem with the film be the script and forget that it be base on a play and a a sport comedy it simply doesn not work and the down and out team be try to win a football cup and few of the game be show ( when they be and it be very short ) and we be not give any satisfaction due to any of their sporting achievement . have read so far and you might assume that it be not a strict sport film but a psychological study of the relation between a charlatan of a manager and his hopeless team . it certainly do not achieve this and i be not even sure if it be aim to . any attempt to shed light on the history of any of the character be hackneyed and peripheral . overall and i find the script lack in many respect . i do think the performance and the music be good and technically and the film be well make . but aside from those point and which should be expect from any irish film at this stage and i leave the theater feel very disappointed . my judgment may seem harsh but i do think there be some hope for a strong national irish cinema in the near future and this simply do not back that argument . a stud have become a recommended dublin cineworld film ( i be part of the audience at that screen ) and most people would seem to be disagree with me and so that mean you should probably make your own judgment of the film .