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"It's Not Just About Football, It's About Pride Inside!"
- Director: Barry Skolnick
- Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sports Film
- Studio: SKA Films
- Subtitled | Widescreen | Duration: 110 Mins
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Overview:
Vinnie Jones doesn't stray too far from home for his first leading role, working with several of Guy Ritchie's Lock, Stock company including Snatch producer Matthew Vaughn and an ex-footballer-turned-jailbird role. But what this remake of Robert Aldrich's 1974 movie The Mean Machine - remember, ex-football pro Burt Reynolds trained his fellow convicts to take on the guards - really misses is the creativity and vitality of Ritchie himself, since it's first-time director Barry Skolnick who's in charge here. That said, if you can overlook the rather thin characters and simplistic plot, the film's final third - an ill-tempered soccer match between warders and inmates - is very well filmed and highly entertaining. Jones isn't bad in a made-to-measure role, though the movie's best moments involve Jason Statham's maverick keeper and Jason Flemyng's unconventional commentator. Definitely one for the boys.
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