Boring

Absolutely the worst movie.

It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Well, it's not only for football fans (sorry, American mates, it's not "soccer"!). It's not only if you are a proud "RED-MAN" (like myself), a supporter of the MIGHTY LIVERPOOL FC.!!!... ...It's a family movie. You can watch it, no matter what.It's not perfect film, no question about it. But is emotional, is dramatic, is good to watch it.Obviously... if you're a football fan... and even more, if you are a LIVERPOOL FC supporter... you won't stop crying, at the end of the film - I couldn't. I remember every single second of these MAGNIFICENT three days in Istanbul; these days that changed my life for ever... ...I understood that except my true family (parents, sister, etc), I have also A HUGE "RED family", so proud, so magnificent, so magic.I remember all... And I do remember the long way back (from stadium, many-many miles away from the city), by foot (!) - because we've lost the bus - and arrived in Istanbul early hours of next morning... without feeling tired, without any thought of sleep... just a remarkable joy, like we have conquered the universe!!!...You'll taste a bit of it, in this film. You'll taste a bit of OUR PRIDE, OUR "RED" ONE!"YNWA"... as always, my Liverpool!

Will is an odd film of a 11 year old boy called Will (Perry Eggleton), whose father has died and he attempts to make his way to Istanbul to watch Liverpool play AC Milan in the 2005 Champions League final.Damien Lewis and Bob Hoskins make cameo appearances although the thought of a 11 year old boy setting out for a journey across Europe alone rather fills one with horror.Of course before long he loses his tickets to crooks in Paris but meets an ex Yugoslavian footballer and together they set out to Istanbul.Liverpool legends Kenny Dalglish, Steven Gerrard and Jamie Carragher also make cameo appearances.Now the 2005 Champions League final will go down in history as one of the all time great finals, yet the film finishes before the match starts so we are deprived of the footage of Liverpool's comeback as they secured their fifth European Cup and getting to keep the actual trophy with their victory in penalties.It is essentially a road movie, slightly sentimental, even a bit surreal, it leads to a feel good climax unless you are an AC Milan fan but it is still a slight film.

I have no idea why some reviewers are saying this is awful, it is not! This is a British film in the mode of 'They don't make em like that anymore.' FROM HERE THIS FILM CONTAINS Spoilers: The film deals with the father bringing his son tickets to a football match in Istanbul in 2005. If those who are decrying this film actually watched it they would see that Alek explains to Will, when he finds out that the tickets are fake, that the father had been taken in by whoever sold them to him - he did not deliberately buy fake tickets to give to the child! The film is a really good and takes Will on a journey after his fathers sudden and therefore unexpected death to Istanbul via Dover and Paris in the company of Alek, someone who tried out for Liverpool and didn't make it, to watch Liverpool win the EUFA Champions League Final in 2005. There are a lot of recognisable characters in the film, Damian Lewis (the father) from Homeland, Bob Hoskins and Neil Fitzmaurice who plays Fergus in the TV series Mount Pleasant and cameos from Liverpool legends Steven Gerrard, Jamie Carragher and Kenny Dalglish. Add to this the amazing countryside and scenery of France and Turkey as well as the beautiful Nether Wynchendon House in Oxfordshire - it is a movie that will pull at the heartstrings and the final dedication once you sit through the end credits will bring a lump to the throat.And for those wondering (if indeed you were ) I am an ex-pat scouser and a Liverpool fan. Not surprisingly I loved it ... as did my husband who is not a scouser or a Liverpool fan! I loved it rather more for the story telling, the acting, the scenery and the emotions throughout, not just because I am from Liverpool - that it was about a Liverpool fan added to the enjoyment, it is a really good film - those criticising it, although they are entitled to their opinions, have maybe missed the more subtle explanations for the things happening in the film, I don't know. I loved it and I think you will too. Liverpool fan or not!

I have just seen this film at the Kerala Film Festival in India and I am still amazed! It might be very well the best football feature film of the year 2011. The story about a boy who tackles his great trauma with the potential healing power of football and who is helped wherever he goes by the solidarity of football fans from different nations brought me at different moments very very close to tears. It didn't surprised me that a female director got this deep understanding of the very soul of football, but when two American scriptwriter-producer prove to be so close at the heart of what they have to call "soccer" in their own country - then there is hope for more good football films to come out of Hollywood...