Immer wieder Samstags

One cliché after another. And clichés and maladies from both the genre of sports films and social dramas. Emotions do not come up and the sports aspect is just for the sake of appearance. The film works well only because of Sean Bean's role of a lifetime. It's a role of a lifetime  not because of his performance (although, at the age of almost forty, playing an impertinent adolescent who's almost a generation younger without looking ridiculous is a truly admirable performance), but because of his personality. Bean won't die here, but it's all about getting on the roster of the Sheffield United team. Into a club that he in fact has been passionately supporting since childhood. And who wouldn´t like to make their dream of scoring a winning goal for his beloved club come true, at least on the screen, right? Bean really enjoys it, which can be seen pretty clearly and thanks to which he saves this movie, which otherwise might have been just an average film that is worth seeing only when it is raining and you have nothing else to do. (30.04.2020)