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 enlarge | Director: Philip Davis
Actors: Warren Clarke, Reece Dinsdale, Sean Pertwee, Claire Skinner, Saskia Reeves
Studio: 4 Front Video
Category: Video
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Rating:  18 reviews
Format: Hifi Sound, Pal
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
Media: VHS Tape
Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 103 Minutes
UPC: 044005661637
EAN: 0044005661637
ASIN: B00004RCIH
Theatrical Release Date: January 8, 1997
Release Date: March 9, 1998
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Condition: very good condition Sent within 1 working day by UK seller, available by email for queries.
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Intense, ferocious and deeply unsettling, I.D. is an excellent examination of Britain's unsavoury contribution to global culture: football hooliganism. Whereas Alan Clarke's The Firm showed the violence that lurked behind a seemingly normal facade, I.D. posits football hooliganism as a feral temptation. Dedicated, ambitious undercover policeman John (Reece Dinsdale) becomes seduced by the violence of an East London gang, ultimately becoming lost from his regular life with his wife (Clare Skinner). Dinsdale delivers a measured performance that sees him spiral from committed, right-minded policeman to shaven-headed, Nazi-saluting monster, revelling in the violent impulses he embraces with glee and, alarmingly, becoming a hero amongst those he is infiltrating. Warren Clarke is absolutely monstrous as the leader of the hooligan gang, a paragon of bigoted hatred and the embodiment of John's future. Often unnervingly realistic, director Phil Davis is adept at creating riotous mob scenes that chillingly accentuate the world into which John is drawn. It could be said that I.D.'s premise is too thin, and that hooliganism is not addressed in an effective manner, but it is without doubt a chilling character study of the temptation of violence and the horrific influences that lurk in the heart of society. --Danny Graydon
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 Kids stuff January 12, 2002
8 out of 21 found this review helpful
I've seen this film quite a few times now and personally as an avid football supporter(if you can call Middlesbrough that) I found the film to be pretty unrealistic from start to finish.The scenes of the fans on the terraces for example are shoddy and the chants and goal celebrations look like the producers simply watched a bit of footage from the 70's rather than actually researching it properly.The characters are unbelievable and the acting at times is over the top.Some of the scenes such as the fight in the market or the fact that one of the lads in the firm is a guy called gunbow with mental problems is laughable.Unfortunatly the film dosent actually go into depth about hooliganism at all and basically tarnish's all football supporters as mindless,violent neo-nazi yobs.No wonder the police treat fans badly if this is the general publics opinion of football.Entertaining?Yes I'll grant you that but realistic it is not!
 Excellent film December 29, 2005
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
This film is terrific. It has something for everyone ranging from violence to drama.All in all a great film and well worth watching.
 Underdeveloped undecover cops adventure August 13, 2000
John P O'Connor
6 out of 10 found this review helpful
Four young London Police officers go undercover, posing as football hooligans in order to catch the people who are suspected of masterminding the violence at one particular club. The officers are given a large degree of freedom, even being given their own base to work from away from a police station.One officer, John (Reece Dinsdale) takes to the assignment like a duck to water. He is the most convincing of the four and it is his drive that gets them accepted within their target group. Slowly though, ambiguity creeps into his position. Is he a police officer doing a really fine job of maintaining his cover and following through on a hard mission? Is he becoming one of the people whom the police are out to catch? His moments of violence become more extreme but he continues to be the person who rescues the undercover operation by convincing the hooligan gangs that they are not undercover police. While he is keeping his fellow policemen in the undercover network, they are struggling to keep him inside the force and they begin to have to cover for some of his excesses. Where will it lead? Will John get to the top men and get evidence on them before he goes over the edge or before the operation is closed to pull him out? The film is a fascinating tale of conflicts of loyalty and behaviour under pressure but sadly, the presentation is two dimensional. Nothing ever helps you to get inside the characters and so they all appear to be rather flat. This is really a problem with the script and the supporting cast some of whom just do not pull their weight.
Quailty Blokes film May 15, 2003
N. JOSEPH (Wales)
6 out of 13 found this review helpful
The Britishness errr...... sorry the Englisheness (I'm Welsh and would rather not be painted with the same brush sometimes!) of this film is faultless and the cast great. From start to finish it is captivating and the plot is great. Anyone who thinks this film is bad needs to get their head read. A must see. One of the best British films in the last 10 years for sure
A great choice for any fan of football hooligan films December 5, 2003
Mr. C. R. Bills (UK)
6 out of 16 found this review helpful
This film as evrything a fan of football hooligan films wants, everything form drinking in a smoke filled pub to drunkin hooligan kickin in bus full of another load of hooligan.
But no good film would be with out a story line. I.D does have a good one that involves four coppers goin indercover with a football club call shadwell town but i wont get to much into it as it is well worth a watch.
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