![]() MacNab plays Dom with the sort of juvenility one would expect of a teenager: he's taken by Bex's outward displays of power and authority, which are usually handled through head butting, kicking, and punching. Here, the story revolves around Dom (Callum MacNab), a working-class teen who, after a chance encounter with the notorious Bex (Paul Anderson), begins walking a fine line between admiration and worship, as he attempts to first ingratiate himself with the violent hooligan and his firm, and then through outright mimicry of his newfound idol. It's not altogether unlike Lexi Alexander's 2005 film 'Green Street Hooligans,' where loyalty to one's club can lead to the kind of devotion that inevitably ends a young man's life. ![]() This is the story of rival "firms" of football (fĂștbol, soccer, what have you) fans who express their fandom through acts of brutal violence against one another, which, as the film depicts has practically devolved into a cohort of criminal syndicates. This is essentially the problem facing Nick Love's 2009 remake of 'The Firm,' based on the 1989 Gary Oldman-starring episode of 'Screen Two' that was directed by Alan Clarke. And when that level of distraction is combined with the problems and concerns inherent in any remake, the new iteration may feel pressured to outdo the evocative symbols and musical cues that came so naturally the first time around. ![]() One of the many pitfalls for filmmakers attempting to depict a particular decade or era is that the film will become too focused on the details of the period, or the irrelevant minutia that makes for terrific nostalgia but ultimately distracts from the narrative at hand. ![]()
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