Green Street

This is basically a cross between Snatch and Fight Club, and it works surprisingly well. Tom (Elijah Wood, The Good Son) has just been booted out of Harvard 2 months short of receiving his diploma. He’s got a very powerful roommate. With his dad covering the war in Afghanistan, he leaves for England to meet his sister, who is married to an Englishman.

What he finds is nothing at all he could have expected. His sisters brother in law is the leader of the East Ham football ‘Firm’. Which is basically a street gang that beats up on other ‘firms’ that support other football clubs. It’s actually quite absurd and ridiculous. But it’s relatively realistic.

So Tom falls in with Pete and his gang of soccer hooligans. He learns how to fight and learns how to make friends. He learns how to fight and make his own reputation. He helps them overcome the odds on several occasions, and they illustrate as a firm the importance of standing firm in the face of adversity.

There’s a great deal of fighting and gruesomeness…it’s all really well done, and the fight-cam action is very varied, and the artistry of the camera is quite noble. The story is rather touching, and there is a redemptive aspect to much of the subtext, and the idea of sacrifice for ultimate importance is a fascinating theme through out. 2. British Fight Club.