This is a decently made film about the beginnings of the Mexican mafia that is based on a true story but takes a number of liberties with its source material. Some aspects aren't completely fleshed out either and I don't think you get the enormity of the mafia once Montoya is on the outside. It's never boring and features some noteworthy scenes, but at times I couldn't get past the characters ending every sentence with "esé" or "homes". It just got annoying. I also feel some of the actors were trying too hard, including with their Latino accents. William Forsythe being one of the main culprits.

With each Goal movie that has come, the focus off the pitch has increased from the director and writers. In this instalment, there really isn't a huge amount of football that we see (for a football movie), and when we do it rarely features the actors - most of it is just real footage from the 2006 FIFA World Cup. The story itself centres largely around Charlie Braithwaite and Liam Adams (he cracks a strange expression on the DVD cover if you ask me) who play in the FIFA World Cup for England. While Mexican Santiago Munez is only able to watch from the box as the three were involved in a car accident a week or so out from the World Cup and Santi came out of it with a broken arm. While sports films have the tendency to be predictable there were moments in this you don't quite expect. Such as when Charlie starts going into convulsions and dies, and as I mentioned earlier not seeing the star from the previous Goal movies get to kick a ball was also surprising and disappointing. As I mentioned the lack of the actors being involved in the actual play to me seemed possibly like a cost-cutting procedure. The first two were released on the big screen with this only being a DVD release so that adds to my feelings. Furthermore, when they do actually green screen the actors into the real footage, it doesn't look as crisply done as before. Another thing about the story is when it ends, which is when England lose to Portugal in a penalty shoot out which is of course what exactly happened in reality. So I guess if they won the tournament then that would have been the plot. Maybe that is part of the reason as to why they went with the England and not the Mexico based storyline as they thought they would get more out of England in the tournament. Lastly, the message this film sends in many ways is that while important, a game of football isn't the end of the world, with friends and family and so forth being the key to happiness. An enjoyable football trilogy if not anything spectacular.

This turned into a different movie compared to what I thought it would be based on the first 20-25 minutes. The fact that Jennifer Lopez's character, Sharon, is a police officer is a prominent aspect of the film for the first third or so, featuring arrests, criminal scum, chases and a drive-by, but some of that seems unresolved. It feels like a romantic comedy in parts that doesn't really fit but in other areas it's melodramatic. At times I also thought it was going to have supernatural themes with the way James Caviezel's character, Catch, was acting, who is quite odd. He just seems weird a lot of the time and if I was Sharon I would've been running away as quickly as I could a number of times throughout this. The whole thing just doesn't gel together very well. The acting is good, Jennifer is a joy to look at and I can't say I was ever bored but this isn't one I'd recommend. 2.5-2.

Looking at the plot and the theme of this movie it is very clichéd and nothing much will/should surprise you. A gangster in the drug game (Stick) after finding out his girl is pregnant tries to get out of the game and plans to lead a clean life. Obviously this isn't going to be as simple as it sounds. What is unique about this movie is that everything is rapped. Every scene is backed by a beat and the actors all have rhyming conversations - It is like a live concept album. Maybe there is/are other films like this but I haven't come across any. Some songs/rhymes are quite nice and others, along with some of the voices of the cast leave a lil' to be desired, but I felt most worked. Worth checking out if you're a fan of hip hop and are looking for something different.

There is some okay stuff here, with the members of the parody rap group 'Gangsta Rap' offering some occasional good lines and parody tunes. However, the whole thing feels fairly cheap, is poorly cutup-seems to get worse the further the film goes on-and from the word go Damon Coke Daniels-who plays the director-rubbed me the wrong way and made it hard to enjoy scenes where he has a part in. The part of the manager isn't played brilliantly either. It also borrows a few aspects from the movies mentioned below such as a story about all their previous DJ's dying whereas it was managers in 'Fear of a Black Hat', but doesn't do anything as well. You're better off checking out 'Fear of a Black Hat' or CP4' for better similar films.