Clevercell Very disappointing...

Voxitype Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Kimball Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

onisim-ferche I had troubles watching this movie from the beginning to the end. For anyone that knows a thing or two about soccer, it's so mindbogglingly idiotic that there is no way in hell to appreciate it. They call free kicks penalties, illegal tackles are called fair and the other way around, the sports part of the movie is beyond horrible. I doubt the makers of the movie watched more than say... two soccer games in all their lives. And even if they did, they definitely didn't understand it. Which, for a soccer movie, is a fatal flaw.But even ignoring the sports part, the movie is still very bad. Even making a movie about a rather unimportant game (they didn't win anything, didn't reach any final... they just won a game against the odds, happens all the time). Trying to display that as a heroic deed is rather hilarious... Any soccer fan knows that a very bad team can sometimes cause problems to a strong team, due to excessive enthusiasm (usually translated into aggressiveness) and the tendency to destroy the play.Also, the movie is one big cliché, a sports team nobody knew about rising above its status to defeat the main contenders for the title. And there were some movies based on the same structure, which I happened to enjoy. But everything about this specific movie is so irrational and / or meaningless that there's simply no way someone with a bit of movie and sports culture could enjoy it.A total failure, both from a cinematic point of view, and a sportive one.Gave it 2, because i've seen worse movies. Not many though.

greek_samurai69 First of all I'm not American that does not mean i hate Americans or their movies. I was raised with movies that showed that the underdog could win just once and be proud of it.My own country won the European championship.They were the #1 underdog of the whole championship.So am just saying thats OK to make movies about such great victories but in every sport movie i have watched the team always made to the finals and either won (the most cases were like this ) or lost (a new trend that i first saw in Coach Carter).But here this is just a waste of film and time, the U.S. team won 1 match in the 1950 world cup, that was against England who was a superpower i give you that but lost the other two against Spain and Chille.For further information England never made it to the finals,but Spain did(they won against England 1-0).In my opinion this victory is great but not a reason to make a movie out of it.And just a final reflection there have been many underdogs that accomplished something extraordinary in football history none of them made a movie ,this movie is just the American attitude on film "we are the best in everything"

Erinn Graves This is such an awesome movie! I can't believe that it didn't get the PR it deserved, the only way I found it was being a fan of Gerard Butler and having two free tickets to an AMC theater so I perused the NOW Playing list and found ONE theater in Denver with it. The movie chronicles a then unheard of situation- An American Team playing in the World Cup. The cast is all-star including Patrick Stewart, John Rhys-Davies, Bill Smitrovich, Jimmy Jean-Louis, Louis Mandylor, Zachary Ty Brian, and of course the Phantom of the Opera Gerard Butler. America has always been considered the Youngster of the World Powers, but an American World Cup Competitor? Watch this kick butt band of rebels take on the European Pros with passion, determination, and heart. This movie is on par with such immortal classics as "Rudy," "The Air Up There," "The Replacements," and "Field of Dreams."

crystallopez80 It was a good movie, but it just didn't have the same heart and push as "Remember the Titans" or "Rudy", etc to me. All the ingredients were there: underdogs, struggling to come together as a team, lots of raw talent but somehow, when it all was put together...it just didn't really get it done. The soccer scenes are done well and are exciting - coming from someone who doesn't know anything about soccer other than you can't touch the ball with your hands and you have to get it into net. It just left me thinking "that's it?" If Gerard Butler wasn't in it, I wouldn't watch it again. Incidentally, this is the only "underdogs beating all the odds" sports movie I've seen about adults...I wonder if that's the "missing" piece to this film? We root more for kids, and get more unbridled emotion from kids than adults, so we feel more?