The first “Green Street” was all about the violent subculture of football firm hooliganism. This movie moves the violence to a prison. Only a supporting actor (Ross McCall) returns from the original movie so don’t expect this to be much of a sequel. As a film by itself, it’s not as bad as I feared it would be.

After the brawl between West Ham and Millwall football firm members, the two groups of convicted men now find themselves in the same prison. They cannot leave their rivalry in the past as they seek to violently confront each other. The warden (Vernon Wells “Commando”) decides to hold a football match to decide which group will be released early.

I didn’t even remember Ross McCall from the original so I didn’t care about his character and his performance is bad anyway. Graham McTavish (“Rambo”) is decent as the main Millwall thug. He is pretty believable as a violent criminal. Marina Sirtis (“Star Trek: First Contact”, “Crash”) steals the show as a corrupt prison guard. Vernon Wells is mediocre as the warden. The rest of the characters are quite forgettable. Most of the men brutally beat each other throughout the movie. They not only punch, kick and headbutt each other but they also weaponise weights and bleach.

Some of the fight sequences are suitably savage but the movie is still not that entertaining. One big problem is that the film is meant to be set in a British prison yet it was clearly filmed at an American one. In some scenes, the inmates have orange jumpsuits just like in U.S. prison. It just makes it very hard to get immersed in what is going on when it’s so blatantly inaccurate. The main characters are also really dull and the idea of the warden releasing people based on a football match is pretty dumb.