Prismark10
Will is an odd film of a 11 year old boy called Will (Perry Eggleton), whose father has died and he attempts to make his way to Istanbul to watch Liverpool play AC Milan in the 2005 Champions League final.Damien Lewis and Bob Hoskins make cameo appearances although the thought of a 11 year old boy setting out for a journey across Europe alone rather fills one with horror.Of course before long he loses his tickets to crooks in Paris but meets an ex Yugoslavian footballer and together they set out to Istanbul.Liverpool legends Kenny Dalglish, Steven Gerrard and Jamie Carragher also make cameo appearances.Now the 2005 Champions League final will go down in history as one of the all time great finals, yet the film finishes before the match starts so we are deprived of the footage of Liverpool's comeback as they secured their fifth European Cup and getting to keep the actual trophy with their victory in penalties.It is essentially a road movie, slightly sentimental, even a bit surreal, it leads to a feel good climax unless you are an AC Milan fan but it is still a slight film.
Joshreynolds-47
The film has this really feel good get you up story about it. It's well written, factually correct in many ways ( Csevinc has you believe in his review it isn't possible in Europe to cross borders without a passport which in actual fact it is) However, the film is weak, very weak. Starts you off with his life as it is, then BOOM his father returns (out of the blue) and you feel great, then tragedy happens, and you feel for little Will. We then follow him on his journey and I myself couldn't help but think this gives the viewer a nice positive image of the world. Well Europe at least. But overall this film is quite literally only for Liverpool fans, I struggle myself to watch it again due to the over use of Liverpool football club. But if your looking for a tear jerker you found it!
Claire
I have no idea why some reviewers are saying this is awful, it is not! This is a British film in the mode of 'They don't make em like that anymore.' FROM HERE THIS FILM CONTAINS Spoilers: The film deals with the father bringing his son tickets to a football match in Istanbul in 2005. If those who are decrying this film actually watched it they would see that Alek explains to Will, when he finds out that the tickets are fake, that the father had been taken in by whoever sold them to him - he did not deliberately buy fake tickets to give to the child! The film is a really good and takes Will on a journey after his fathers sudden and therefore unexpected death to Istanbul via Dover and Paris in the company of Alek, someone who tried out for Liverpool and didn't make it, to watch Liverpool win the EUFA Champions League Final in 2005. There are a lot of recognisable characters in the film, Damian Lewis (the father) from Homeland, Bob Hoskins and Neil Fitzmaurice who plays Fergus in the TV series Mount Pleasant and cameos from Liverpool legends Steven Gerrard, Jamie Carragher and Kenny Dalglish. Add to this the amazing countryside and scenery of France and Turkey as well as the beautiful Nether Wynchendon House in Oxfordshire - it is a movie that will pull at the heartstrings and the final dedication once you sit through the end credits will bring a lump to the throat.And for those wondering (if indeed you were ) I am an ex-pat scouser and a Liverpool fan. Not surprisingly I loved it ... as did my husband who is not a scouser or a Liverpool fan! I loved it rather more for the story telling, the acting, the scenery and the emotions throughout, not just because I am from Liverpool - that it was about a Liverpool fan added to the enjoyment, it is a really good film - those criticising it, although they are entitled to their opinions, have maybe missed the more subtle explanations for the things happening in the film, I don't know. I loved it and I think you will too. Liverpool fan or not!
johnbirch-2
I have to go with the minority on this. Its a workable - even interesting - idea, but surely one major (and very interesting, even dramatic) barrier to an 11 year-old crossing Europe WITHOUT A PASSPORT is how the heck through the borders (Schengen only gets you to Croatia at best!). Its not insurmountable, but pretty significant - significant enough for it to be a pretty major part of a film like this, you'd think. But no.Instead the drama is made up of daft, random, and at times very predictable, events that hang in the air and then get forgotten (like the theft, for instance) along with total fantasy nonsense such as the ending. I was even at a loss to work out who on earth the target audience was - children? Adults? Families? Cannot work it out...Its like a first draft of a script that somehow got made without anyone so much as reading it through. Indeed its worse than that - its like a film that was made up as everyone went along, with every stupid idea thrown in without consideration for anything at all.As for the acting... WTF? Did they rehearse at all?I wonder - was this one of those films made as a tax dodge...?
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