Final Score – Review. Rating: 1/5

Watched the Sky Cinema film Final Score. Expected rubbish – and it really was rubbish. Surprisingly though, it gets a fairly high 74% rating on Rotten Tomatoes??? 😕  As a comparison and to check it wasn’t just me, checked the rating elsewhere – Empire gives it 2/5.

The acting is pretty awful – and you could tell they didn’t spend a massive amount on it. The movie was set in the old West Ham stadium, the Boleyn Ground aka Upton Park. Since the stadium was recently knocked down, it was probably a good place to film it as they didn’t really care what damage was done!

(Spoilers ahead)

As well as poor acting and the cheap feel (and dodgy accents), the logic in this movie just goes out the window. Loads of ridiculous things happen – although the most ridiculous is West Ham United being in a European Semi-Final!

List of ridiculousness:

• His niece went “missing” but stupid how worried he was. There was no reason why he should be that worried. I know she is a pain in the ass but she is 15 not 5!
• The niece has gone to meet a boy – who luckily had a spare seat next to him. During a sell out, semi final match?
• Dave Bautista walking around with blood all over him. But no one seems bothered by this at all. He was literally in a toilet so could have clean the blood off his face.
• So the secret code/message for the stadium security is talking about the weather. WTF?! You would potentially use the security code when there is a problem and maybe someone listening – so would arise suspicion if they start talking about how the weather is rubbish – especially if they weather is NOT rubbish!
• WTF was the constant reference to warm beer?? Is that what Americans think our beer is? At least its not like water. (Although the beer he had in the pub looked VERY flat).
• Someone says: “Show him your phone”. Then shows him a laptop?????
• For “comedy” effect, he asks the Chief of police where the mustard is. But its literally right in front of him?!
• No one at all is suspicious/worried/scared about a man covered in blood
• No one notices gunfire, military helicopters and motorbikes jumping on top of the stadium
• The police shooting at people stood on stadium roof. Its lucky the stadium roof of Upton Park/Boleyn Ground was bullet proof!
• The old “its football not soccer” “Joke”
• Dave Bautista falls off the roof on to big screen. People see this – but then no one is bothered about it. Not even when there is a fight on top of the big screen
• Whole corner of stadium blown up. It was sort of cleared but no one seems too worried. Where are the paramedics? And Fasal and that racist old woman are OK even though right in the middle of it??