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Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

Please don't spend money on this.

Let's be realistic.

This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

If you like football as much a me and you always dreamed of making it but never did, Then this is how i would of hoped it had happened, This movie covers everything you want in a rags to riches football movie the movie is a joy to watch. The performance by Shaun Bean was great (as usual) and Pete Postlewaite puts in a great performance again, the story just flows nicely and easy to watch. Its a movie i watched again and again when i was a kid and have it on DVD. Even now i watch it and something inside me wants to get on to a football pitch and get spotted just like Jimmy does here. To Jimmy life was just a game... Until the game became his life! 10/10

Despite myself being an avid fan of the predominant obsession held by Sean Bean in the film which should've given me leverage to compliment this film, I can't say it encapsulated my attention and imagination to the levels of quality that I've come to expect from a film through years of maturity and film studying.From the outset, you could tell the dialogue was poor (despite myself speaking in the same accents) and not even the great Pete Postlethwaite could salvage this film from it's inevitable trip to the "could've been" and perhaps "should've been" pile. This is sad because the age-old story line of "young, poor bloke with a dream hits it big and becomes a star" has often produced such outstanding films, one British film following this genre when recalled to memory is "The Full Monty" which managed to achieve this better than When Saturday Comes though only with limited international success. However, this film is not all bad, there are some (rarely) memorable scenes and Bean himself puts in a sure-footed and confident performance which would later win him parts in Goldeneye and more prominently, Lord of The Rings.Although it pains me to say it, this film is hardly a classic, but more of a film which had the makings of a good movie which were sadly missed through poor directing and poor dialogue although the acting (from most) was stout and confident.

If my opening sentence isn't clear enough, I must reiterate that this is without doubt one of the worst films I have ever seen. SEAN BEAN a trainee? He is clearly older than Gar McAllister. SEAN BEAN having casual sex with a stripper? Sean always appears to have spent the day down a coal mine being sprayed with acid. The man was in Sharpe people, I'll accept no half measures.

The film was pretty good, and it portrayed Sheffield life fairly well. Sean Bean's a great actor and looks good in the "Sharpe" series of films. Being a Sheffield United supporter and having seen many sports-based films before, it's almost always the same plot."An unknown nobody rises from the gutters of society to become an idolised hero(ine) of whichever sport they play."Also, when writers make films following a sports career, the team/player will win almost all their games/matches/fights, but struggle in the final match/game/bout. The team will fail, fail again and so on, until some psychological breakthrough/substitution allows them to trounce the opposition by maybe one or two points/goals. Afterwards they become league/series/championship winners until the sequel/rematch, right? Yeah, I enjoyed the ups and downs of Jimmy's new life, but I've seen it all before really. "The Full Monty" is a similar, better film I recommend. Cheers, Dom (14)