The Damned United | Full Movie | Movies Anywhere

It's entertaining even if you don't quite follow all of the intricacies of the game, mostly thanks to the boisterous cast.

The Damned United is a populist - at times, almost cartoonish - attempt to make comprehensible the story behind Brian Clough's ill-fated 44-day tenure at Leeds United.

For once we have a movie in which learning humility --learning that ambition can be as self-defeating a force as laziness given faulty motivation -- is the point of the film and not some short stop on the way to a thunderous comeback.

Moves along crisply with, mercifully, very little on-pitch football and many beautifully crafted, touching moments.

The story should have added up to an interesting and exciting movie, but it didn't for me. It was not due to Sheen's acting, but rather to a boring and confusing script.