The Rise and Fall of a White Collar Hooligan 2 (2013) User Reviews

Pretty Average! 4/10

[leonblackwood · 4/10 · 4 August 2013]

Review: I thought that this storyline wasn't as good as the first movie, but they obviously had a bigger budget to play with because it was shot in different countries which is never cheap. The movie starts from the 1st movie in the franchise and it does a recap of everything that has happen since. It then goes a bit wishy washy and then its starts picking up and they cut out a lot of the unnecessary swearing which is not a good way to portray English movies. Anyway, I liked some of the wit from Simon Phillips but it still seems average.

Round-Up: No doubt, they will be releasing another movie in this franchise, which is actually not a bad idea because they might have enough money to make a half decent movie. They might need to reboot the franchise with a different leading character because his acting is way to stiff, but I don't that many people will be that bothered with people's performances.

I recommend this movie to people who were fans of the first movie. 4/10

Time to get tasty in Spain my son......

[FlashCallahan · 5/10 · 10 December 2013]

So I saw this straight after the first movie, and I was intrigued with just where the makers could take this film, and to be fair, it's not the greatest movie ever made, but it's an improvement on the first.

This time, the film feels more like a caper than anything else. We still have the awful narrative, but the film feels more confident, and the sectors do a lot better this time around.

The titular character has been relocated to Spain, after grassing on his colleagues. Think Buster with out Phil Collins and more swearing. He goes to a football match, and is spotted by two really poor actors pretending to be hard men.

They apprehend him and kidnap his girlfriend.

He has just four days to pay back 2 million pounds (see the first film), or she gets it.

So its a race against time, and desperation, as the cast and crew try and find somewhere that looks like a New York street in England.

Its a lot more lighter than the first film, no scams or winks to the camera, just a man trying to get money.

It has all the typecast characters from these types of film, most evidently the two henchmen, one is old and calm, the other, a little rat who thinks he's hard.

It's pretty short, and it ends with a load of football hooligans invading a stately home, think Looking For Eric, without Eric and More swearing.

And it promises a third, which no doubt I'll watch because it leaves you with a Cliffhanger...

Average

[richie_efc · 2/10 · 12 December 2013]

OK, its better than the first one (which is appalling), i'm so intrigued as to why Simon Phillips is appearing in so many films with the same group of actors, its like a little clique, very odd! This film could be OK with better actors, the main guy Mike, is embarrassingly trying to be like Danny Dyer, in look, and in dialogue, the football hooligan who has only ever been to one match (in his expensive Slazenger cut off shorts) in 2 movies of this crap collection of 3.

Rita Ramnani is about the only good thing to come out of these group of actors, it seems they are making movies by the truckload, Simon Phillips has the irritating lisp, Peter Barrett is the ugly one with the gap in his teeth, they are responsible for the worst movie ever made in 'Alien Uprising' i hate these films with a passion, a passion which seems to drive me to watch them (sadistically), just to see how much worse they can get..

More awful English hard man stuff.

[iamtherobotman · 1/10 · 19 October 2020]

Embarrassing. Before the film had even properly started i could guess what this was going to be like. I haven't seen the first film and i feel blessed by that. This is a mess. It seems like when they had the idea for this, they had Danny Dyer in mind as this guy tries like a bear to mimic him all the way. The narration is akin to 'The Football Factory' but this guy tries even harder than Dyer to act the tough guy and i'm afraid he is in no way convincing at it. Screwing his face up and swearing viciously at his box of Cornflakes because two too many went in the bowl. Who is arguably less convincing is the support cast. His bud in New York is attrocious and the two heavies holding his Mrs are more like a Morcambe and Wise tribute than gangsters. Theres some truly awful moments in this, none more so than perhaps the scene where his mate is 'beaten up' by two heavies in NYC to whom he owes money. Our 'hero' who is walking away(slowly), turns to help his buddy and rummages through some bin bags at the side of the road where, lo and behold he finds a crow bar which someone has decided to put out with the rubbish... The main villain looks as manacing as an Ice Cream seller in a Disney film, but he has stubble, so we know he's the 'bad man'. This truly is a horrible mess of a film, which really looks like high school students made it. Laughably awful with an equally brutal soundtrack.

Total garbage

[deloudelouvain · 2/10 · 8 April 2015]

After seeing the first movie of White Collar Hooligan I already knew it wasn't going to be about football hooligans at all. I'm fine with that because this time I knew about it. But if the first movie was okay to watch this one on the contrary is total garbage. It was really painful to watch. About everything in this movie is wrong. The story is so weak and predictable you are kind of glad you are not playing in that movie. I would have been so ashamed of myself if I was in that movie. This time there were two "hooligan" scenes and they were so bad I could not help myself laughing out loud. I heard there is a third movie about it. Well let me tell you that I for sure won't watch that one. What a waste of time.

Poor story, poor film

[garyjamesford · 2/10 · 9 March 2021]

The whole film seems like an excuse for a bunch of cockney sounding 3rd rate actors to spend some time site seeing international locations and playing at being 'ard. We'll I'm sorry, but it was just rubbish.

If 'Snatch' be the definition of the best in cockney gangster flicks - this is the very opposite end of the spectrum.