I cannot believe I missed this movie when it came out! It is very fun - really well done. Mainly it's good because it has a hot, charismatic lead in Charlie Hunnam. He is now in Sons of Anarchy and I might need to start watching.
The story is not particularly original, but that's OK. Elijah Wood plays a journalism major who gets kicked out of Harvard for something he didn't do. He walks rather than fight the rich kid and the establishment. He heads to London to visit his sis, and ends up hanging with a gang of soccer thugs. Much stylized violence ensues, with Charlie Hunnam in the lead. He even shows off his six pack, which worked for me. The slight "surprise" is totally predictable, the end of the movie is TOTALLY predictable, but it's still enjoyable. Elijah Wood is miscast, though, as the innocent turned hooligan. He did a credible job re-casting himself as a fighter, but his face moves naturally into pathos or blankness rather than anger, antogonism, etc. He was good, but not quite right. But I would definitely watch this movie again. And I will look for Mr. Hunnam elsewhere.
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