Leofwine_draca THE RISE AND FALL OF A WHITE COLLAR HOOLIGAN is an odd attempt to mix two popular straight-to-DVD sub-genres: the London gangster flick and the London football hooligan flick. The resultant film is an entire mess of a production, with little discernible story, more clichés than you can shake a stick at, and an almost entire lack of coherence.The narrative involves a thuggish football hooligan type - a knuckle-dragger with zero charisma and yes, he's the protagonist - who finds himself involved in a new job as a courier, delivering computer technology around the city. His boss is played by Simon Phillips, who still hasn't got any more charisma than he had in JACK FALLS. Everyone's favourite Cockney stereotype Billy Murray appears in support as some kind of crime kingpin.The story is a never-ending mess of random street fights and violence mixed out with some excruciating melodrama involving various love interests. There's a trip to France and a spell in prison, and a twist ending of sorts, but it's all completely horrible, of course, and almost entirely without merit.

FlashCallahan When unemployed soccer hooligan Mike Jacobs encounters an old friend during a bloody pre-match brawl, he finds the answer to his problems .But its a job involving credit card fraud. Before long, the fast paced world of easy money and beautiful women descends into a violent struggle for survival...If you are expecting anything subtle, or classy, look at the title again. It explains what the content of the film will be, but surprisingly, football has very little to do with the actual narrative.Yes, there are a couple of football matches that take place in the film, and the head honcho was ex-firm, but the film centres around a bloke who's voice sounds like he'd make a good narrator for a 'Britains Toughest....' DVD, and the japes his mates get up to.If your used to Danny Dyer movies, various films about Essex Boys, and just typical Brit movies with lots of Effin and Jeffin in, you've come to the right place.It tries to be something clever, something different, but comes full circle to the curse of Lock, Stock. Always trying to better that blueprint.Its watchable guff though, and it looks good, but you've seen it so many times before, you'll feel like you've already seen it....

daworldismine im a huge fan of British gangster movies, especially the gritty one's like 'rise of the footsoldier' 'bonded by blood' 'the crew' 'clubbed' and 'the take', and although this movie isn't as good as any of them, its still a well made, and very enjoyable gangster movie, now anybody expecting a football hooligan film, will be very disappointed, as there is none here, a couple of scenes at the beginning, this is really more like 'rise of the footsoldier' in that it's one man's descent into the murky life of gangland, and the bad that comes with that. at 80 minutes long, its certainly not an epic, but the story is well told and the film well made, the cast are good enough, and the soundtrack is good too, the movie is quite violent at times, but nothing that compares to 'footsoldier' and 'bonded by blood'. i cant wait for there new film ' the fall of the essex boys' as they certainly know how to craft a good gangland thriller.

David O'Brien My God. Another year, and another sloppy gangster flick comes our way. You are given the impression that this is on a level with Rise Of The Footsoldier because it also stars Billy Murray, Ricci Harnett and Roland Manookian, but you'd be very much mistaken. This is a very insulting film. It's only 75 minutes long, and the plot and level of violence in it are very slight indeed. The plot revolves around a team of pass card skimmers making big money for a Mr Big. When the main protagonist gets arrested in France, it sets in motion a series of events that lead to him wanting to quit the gang. However, it's never that simple. By the end of this film when the credits are going up, you are left asking yourself "Is that it ?". It must have been filmed in one afternoon. It's just not good enough. Lord knows if it went straight to video or appeared in a cinema. I'd feel conned if I paid a tenner to see this rubbish