This remake of the 1970s action comedy stars Vinnie Jones as Danny Meehan, the disgraced ex captain of the English football team who ends up in prison, where he is made coach of an unlikely team of convicts who are set to take on the prison officers.
Mean Machine is THE best english film to come out in the past decade! The characters are all fabulously good at their roles and all have their own individual charm. The script is fantastically written and screams out class.
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Ex professional footballer, Danny Mehan, lands in prison on an assault charge and discovers that he is banged up with a few inmates who haven't forgiven him for fixing a game... Can he manage to throw a team together in order to get him on side with the guards and also save his neck with his fellow prisoners?...
Danny Meehan (Vinnie Jones) is a disgraced English football captain who, following some trouble with the law, gets landed with three years in Longmarsh prison. After winning the trust of his fellow inmates, the soccer star begins coaching their football team ready for a big match against the guards. However, as the kick-off approaches, the prison Governer (David Hemmings) orders Danny to throw the game - either that or find himself charged with the murder of fellow inmate Doc.
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