Elijah Wood stars as a wrongfully expelled Harvard student who seeks solace with his sister in England, only to fall under the influence of her soccer-hooligan brother-in-law Pete (Charlie Hunnam). The movie tragically traces, and inevitably glorifies, how beating someone’s face in at the behest of your buddies can give a lost soul both pride and a sense of purpose. Even the most benign of scenes among these men throbs with the threat of violence, so that you watch the movie clutched in a defensive position.
