Review of The Match

The Match (1999)
1/10
Sam fox with a fake Scottish accent-need i say more
20 April 2000
Basically The Match is an hour and a half of your life you'll wish you'd spent chewing glass.

It is based around a bet which has been placed in a small highland village. If Benny's Bar don't win 'the match', the 100th of it's kind, then the bar will be closed down. It is then up to a team of the locals to play against a far superior team encountering a whole heap of problems along the way, throw in a romance, a death to lift team spirit and Neil Morrissey saying 'p**s-off' an awful lot and that's the gist of it.

This film is not funny. I would have had more fun at the dentist. Considering that it is set in the highlands and half the cast aren't scottish but instead choose to talk like characters from The Broons is painful enough for any viewer but with the only real interst taking place in the last 10 mins and a completely predictable story line, I was severely disappointed.

The only redeeming feature of the film is that at times it is so bad it is laughable. Don't get me wrong, I set out determined to give it a chance but only got 10 mins in before I was crying with boredom.

A lot of good talent was wasted in this film and Sam Fox-whoever let her loose on celluloid should be shot.
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