Tuesday, October 04, 2005

British Fight Club

Saw Elijah Wood's other movie out now, "Green Street Hooligans," which explores the intense world of English soccer hooligans.

Let's just say these people make the Dodger fans on $2 Tuesdays look absolutely comatose.

Wood plays a young American whose sister lives in London with her British husband and on a visit falls in with the "firm" connected with the local soccer team.

Each team has it's own "firm" -- basically a gang of out of control fanatics who rumble with other firms from other teams. The fighting is over pride and reputation.

Wood's character learns when it's wrong to walk away from a fight and when it's right. Many people die in order for him to learn this lesson.

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