Review of I.D.

I.D. (1995)
6/10
Brilliant
18 August 2000
Warning: Spoilers
This film is easily the best football film ever. The film is based on football violence in the late eighties and is incredibly realistic. I am a football fan myself and can really relate to how easy it was for John to get so caught up in the whole terrace atmosphere. The scene where john chases after the bus full of brummies and then is joined by the rest of the Shadwell army charging behind him is brilliant and so effective as is the part of the film when John and Bob go into the opposing fans stand and start singing "we are shadwell...." then it all kicks off and John charges back in to the Shadwell end to loud cheers, it is so brilliant. Reece Dinsdale as John is incredible and i can't believe he hasn't become more of a star like Sean Pertwee who was also brilliant. The whole cast was brilliant and it was a great movie that i have watched several times and love it more each time i see it. The only criticism of the film that i do have is that when the goals used to go in the terraces went mad and you would end up halfway down the stand bruised and battered (from all the jumping up and down) from the hysteria that followed the goal (God i miss the terraces), whereas in ID they score against their local rivals and its no more than a YES with arms in the air before calmly beginning their next chant. However this doesn't effect the viewing pleasure of this film and if the rest of the film wasn't so perfect i probably wouldn't have picked up on it. I Give ID 10/10 Brilliant and unmissable for all football fans.
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