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I.D.

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An excellent movie, I.D., sheds light on organized crime and hooliganism in England.
Four policemen go undercover and infiltrate an English football fan club in an effort to bring the leaders to justice. For one of them though, getting back out might be easier said than done...
Reece Dinsdale, Richard Graham, Saskia Reeves and the rest of the cast have truly outdone themselves with their performances, which are outstanding to say the least! All the actors, without exceptions, give it their 100% and it really shows (the chemistry is AMAZING)! Very well written and very well presented, it allows for a highly entertaining movie that can be watched over and over again!
The setting, the plot, the dialogues, and the music, are all very good!
In short, I.D. is a movie definitely worth watching and one to seriously consider adding to your movie collection!

This British movie from 1995 and set in the late 1980s may have perhaps inspired recent inferior efforts like THE FOOTBALL FACTORY and GREEN STREET, but this works more as a police/detective drama. Inspired by a real life undercover op to root out Millwall FC hooligan firms, I.D. tells of four police officers who infiltrate a hooligan firm - that's gangs who start fights at matches, fighting with firms - gangs who follow rival football teams - belonging to the fictional Shadwell Town Football Club, set in east London. Reece Dinsdale(THREADS) plays the officer who becomes a bit too addicted to the thrill of starting rucks with rival football fans at the games as the operation to stop the ringleaders gathers momentum, and it proceeds to tear apart his job, home and marriage . . . when the operation winds down, will he sort himself out? The match scenes don't show a single game of football, they focus more on some shocking fights in the stadium, which, sickeningly, are all too realistic. One wonders if this movie is glorifying football violence in places, and it does from the start, but on the other hand it does show the consequences brutally. Watch out as well for Warren Clarke as a bull-like pub landlord. He is best known as one half of the BBC detective duo Dalziel and Pascoe and was also Malcolm McDowell's sidekick Dim in A CLOCKWORK ORANGE. Sean Pertwee also appears. This movie does have a couple of funny moments - the quiet copper yelling SHADWELL BARMY ARMY and the firm's reaction is a real lulu, and also the impulsive sex scene and backside tattoo on the beach bit appealed to my sicker sense of humor! Overall, brilliantly acted but not for the easily upset.