After the phenomenon that was the Lord Of The Rings trilogy, Elijah Wood made a concerted effort to mix things up. However, while Green Street offered stark contrast to the fantasy world of Middle-earth, it was an "ultimately calamitous" portrait of English football hooligans. It failed to score with critics and, more importantly, the paying public.

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German writer/director Lexi Alexander reveals that her biggest reservation about making the movie was casting Elijah Wood. In the amusingly-titled From Hobbit To Hooligan featurette she explains, "The Lord Of The Rings was so big, I was afraid people would sit in the movie and think about nothing else." Likewise Wood was conscious of the impact the trilogy might have on his career, but this only made him more determined to seek out new challenges. "I've always wanted to move on and be challenged by something different," he says, "And being part of the Lord Of The Rings certainly made that philosophy that much greater."

There's little more to glean from this five-minute featurette and a separate look at the brutal violence of the film is just as fleeting. Alexander lets slip about her misspent youth hanging out with football hooligans and explains her fascination with what turns ordinary men into thugs, but the technical aspects of fight training overshadow the more interesting issues raised.

Dribbling

Other difficulties faced by Alexander are talked about in A Clear Direction, but again it's hardly in-depth at just over four minutes. Alexander expresses a little anxiety about working in a macho-male environment and alludes to the pressures of a small budget - for example shooting against a tight schedule. However, the scantest of all the featurettes is the Making Of, basically a three-minute compilation of clips and dull soundbites to outline the plot.

A couple of trailers and One Blood music video complete this package, which has more gaps in it than a goal net.

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