Review of When Saturday Comes

Well I saw this movie yesterday for the first time and I didn't expect a masterpiece. I wanted to be entertained, nothing more. After sixty minutes I stopped it, because I couldn't stand that bad story. The characters are clichés: The violent and gambling father, the vicious chief in the brewery and poor Jimmy who fights against that circumstances and his own failures. At one point he loses everything: The Woman he loves, his brother and the chance to get part of Sheffield United. But then he turns for 180 degrees, fights hard for his second chance and in the most important game he got in after 45 min beats Manchester United nearly alone. I spend all my admiration for Sean Bean, Emily Lloyd and Pete Postlethwaite. They fight with their acting against this poor script, but they lose against it. It's a pity, because this could have been a really good movie, but therefor you need a more inspiring directing and a better script. You can see in "Billy Elliot" how you can tell a good story with this topic. So "When Saturday Comes" is just a mediocre try to make a good movie.