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Raptole

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Awesome movie! Very good story and everything about the movie is awesome and I like it very much!

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Posted oct 20, 2007 5:35 am pt

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Overall GOAL! is a very enjoyable experience. Yes it is at times cliché and corny as hell, but in the end it works.

If you are a football lover then you will appreciate the filming of the playing scenes. There are some...
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Overall GOAL! is a very enjoyable experience. Yes it is at times cliché and corny as hell, but in the end it works.

If you are a football lover then you will appreciate the filming of the playing scenes. There are some great shots of St James' Park full to capacity. The overall photography of the film is superb. The movie is full of beautiful shots of the various locations, Newcastle and its river Tyne especially.

There still some marging for progression, but GOAL! is certainly the best executed soccer motion picture ever made. 7/10

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Posted feb 6, 2007 6:02 pm pt

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Everyone has dreams. Santiago Munez is no different. His dream is to become a professional football player. However, his greatest obstacles include a stubborn father, a poor family above all else, until one day a coincidence changes his life...
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Everyone has dreams. Santiago Munez is no different. His dream is to become a professional football player. However, his greatest obstacles include a stubborn father, a poor family above all else, until one day a coincidence changes his life forever. There are hardly any flaws in the movie apart from the rather quick end, with respect to the great progressing film. Good movie overall. 8/10

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Posted dec 26, 2006 7:41 pm pt

• [+] San Francisco Chronicle
  
  100
  Goal! hits the back of the net and is an early candidate for the funnest movie of the summer.

  by G. Allen Johnson | Read Full Review »
• [+] New York Post
  
  75
  Has an awful title, a bland hero and a predictable story - but it also has a nice blast of English atmosphere.

  by Kyle Smith | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Sun-Times
  
  75
  The movie works because it is, above all, sincere. It's not sports by the numbers. The starring performance by Kuno Becker is convincing and dimensional and we begin to care for him.

  by Roger Ebert | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Tribune
  
  75
  Most sports films are also fish-out-of-water stories, and this one qualifies as both.

  by Michael Phillips | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Onion (A.V. Club)
  
  67
  How much viewers care about what happens in Goal! is directly proportionate to how much they care about soccer, because decent execution aside, there's an underdog fantasy movie just like this one for every sport.

  by Scott Tobias | Read Full Review »
• [+] Portland Oregonian
  
  67
  There's enough realism to keep a soccer buff like me happy, but the film is aimed at the young at heart, and I think they'll love it.

  by Shawn Levy | Read Full Review »
• [+] USA Today
  
  63
  The film is capably acted and somewhat inspiring.

  by Claudia Puig | Read Full Review »
• [+] TV Guide
  
  63
  A big success in Europe, the film has already spawned two sequels, the first of which is due to be released in the fall.

  by Ethan Alter | Read Full Review »
• [+] Miami Herald
  
  63
  An unknown commodity to anyone who doesn't follow telenovelas, Becker is sure to be a big star and has already signed on for two sequels. Apart from being scorching hot, he's enormously sympathetic in dramatic scenes.

  by Peter Debruge | Read Full Review »
• [+] New York Daily News
  
  63
  A sports movie for people who may not care about sports but can't resist a heart-tugging underdog story.

  by Jack Mathews | Read Full Review »
• [+] Variety
  
  60
  A slickly mounted slice of can-do nonsense.

  by Derek Elley | Read Full Review »
• [+] Entertainment Weekly
  
  58
  The cast, all around, is sterling. There's only one thing they don't need to bring back for the sequels, and that's the movie's appetite for every sports cliché there ever was.

  by Gregory Kirschling | Read Full Review »
• [+] Village Voice
  
  50
  The appealing young man's tribulations are predictable, his triumph inevitable; while he gets respect, we get another Rocky-style dose of emotional uplift, cloaked in the usual game-day clichés.

  by Bill Gallo | Read Full Review »
• [+] Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  
  50
  Goal seems destined to be an ongoing soccer-themed soap opera, but it's one that only the game's biggest enthusiasts likely will find compelling.

  by Winda Benedetti | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Reader
  
  50
  If you can abide booming orchestral punches during verbal confrontations and ubiquitous Adidas product placement, you'll be rewarded by exciting soccer sequences and the joy of watching a likable character triumph on a global stage.

  by Patrick Somerville | Read Full Review »