JUST when you thought that the World Cup was over and done with, you have a World Cup movie as a bonus.
You can still feel it as a bonus
Title: Goal! 3
Director: Andrew Morahan
Screenwriters: Mike Jefferies and Piers Ashworth
Cast: Kuno Becker, JJ Feild, Leo Gregory, Nick Moran, Tamer Hassan, Gary Lewis, Kasia Smutniak and Anya Lahiri
I'm serious. It's called Goal! 3. Yes, the exclamation mark is not a mistake and it completes the action-packed title to suit a goal frenzy and action-packed event - the World Cup.
But releasing a World Cup film two weeks after the whole shebang is almost dead on people's lips and psyches borders on bad planning and forecasting.
It would have made perfect sense to release Goal! 3, a trilogy, two months ago to rev soccer lovers up so that by the time the gone-by 2010 spectacle hit our shores everyone would have watched the movie.
And the fact that the story revolves around the previous World Cup in Germany in 2006 goes to show that it should have been screened much earlier.
The nations of the world have gathered in Germany in the quest to lift the World Cup statuette. Santiago Munez (Kuno Becker) of Mexico faces his Real Madrid English teammates, Charlie Braithwaite (Leo Gregory) and Liam Adams who are representing England.
Munez - you must have seen him in Goal! 1 and Goal! 2 - wants to win the Cup in memory of his late father and family in Madrid, Spain, and Los Angeles, US. The English fellows would love to clinch the trophy to end their country's "forty years of pain" of having tried in vain to win the Cup.
As usual, as happens in TV dramas like Footballers' Wives, there's some drama on and away from the pitch, which is influenced by personal problems and destructive secrets.
And what would a football story be without the footballers' wives and girlfriends, the so-called WAGS?
Yep, they are here too in the form of Sophia Tardelli (Kasia Smutniak), an Italian actress, and one June (Anya Lahiri), an "ex" of one of the soccer players. Of course, there could be no colourful World Cup without colourful fans.
Movie review - Goal! 3
JUST when you thought that the World Cup was over and done with, you have a World Cup movie as a bonus.
You can still feel it as a bonus
Title: Goal! 3
Director: Andrew Morahan
Screenwriters: Mike Jefferies and Piers Ashworth
Cast: Kuno Becker, JJ Feild, Leo Gregory, Nick Moran, Tamer Hassan, Gary Lewis, Kasia Smutniak and Anya Lahiri
I'm serious. It's called Goal! 3. Yes, the exclamation mark is not a mistake and it completes the action-packed title to suit a goal frenzy and action-packed event - the World Cup.
But releasing a World Cup film two weeks after the whole shebang is almost dead on people's lips and psyches borders on bad planning and forecasting.
It would have made perfect sense to release Goal! 3, a trilogy, two months ago to rev soccer lovers up so that by the time the gone-by 2010 spectacle hit our shores everyone would have watched the movie.
And the fact that the story revolves around the previous World Cup in Germany in 2006 goes to show that it should have been screened much earlier.
The nations of the world have gathered in Germany in the quest to lift the World Cup statuette. Santiago Munez (Kuno Becker) of Mexico faces his Real Madrid English teammates, Charlie Braithwaite (Leo Gregory) and Liam Adams who are representing England.
Munez - you must have seen him in Goal! 1 and Goal! 2 - wants to win the Cup in memory of his late father and family in Madrid, Spain, and Los Angeles, US. The English fellows would love to clinch the trophy to end their country's "forty years of pain" of having tried in vain to win the Cup.
As usual, as happens in TV dramas like Footballers' Wives, there's some drama on and away from the pitch, which is influenced by personal problems and destructive secrets.
And what would a football story be without the footballers' wives and girlfriends, the so-called WAGS?
Yep, they are here too in the form of Sophia Tardelli (Kasia Smutniak), an Italian actress, and one June (Anya Lahiri), an "ex" of one of the soccer players. Of course, there could be no colourful World Cup without colourful fans.
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