Fresh
Despite the predictable, cliche-riddled script, the soap-opera hokum that passes for drama, Goal II somehow works.
Linda Barnard, Toronto Star
Goal II: Living the Dream
This time the dream is real.
2007 · 1h 55m · PG-13
Drama
Directed by
Jaume Collet-Serra
Overview
Tempted away from Newcastle United to join Real Madrid, rising star Santiago Munez finds this latest change of fortune the greatest challenge yet - personally as well as professionally. He is reunited with Gavin Harris, though they must compete to be on the team, and estranged from fiancee Roz, whose nursing career keeps her back home.
Director and cast
- Jaume Collet-Serra Director
- Kuno Becker as Santiago Muñez
- Stephen Dillane as Glen Foy
- Anna Friel as Roz Harmison
- Leonor Varela as Jordana Garcia
- Elizabeth Peña as Rosa Maria
- Carmelo Gómez as Burruchaga
- Miriam Colon as Mercedes
- Frances Barber as Carol Harmison
- William Beck as Steve Parr
- Kieran O'Brien as Hughie McGowan
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
39%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Goal II clumsily telegraphs all of its moves far in advance.
Jason Anderson, Globe and Mail
Rotten
A game of two halves, both of them dire.
Trevor Johnston, Time Out
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