Summer of '92

Or in other words how the originally unqualified Danish substitute gained great victory during the EURO 1992... I hoped that it would be the Danes who would be brave enough courage to trample on the classic scheme of sports-celebrated films about outsiders who become famous despite the expectations, and take it all at least a little subversively. And at first, surprisingly, these hopes are fulfilled, because it begins in a way of Okresní přebor. However, from the moment Yugoslavia get eliminated due to the conflict, it starts to follow that classic scheme "team made of quarreling individual stars, outsiders who are only makeweights even whose fans don't believe in them, who step by step unite, find their way to themselves and how to play, improve and finally they shock every one with their success so many people will be touched. It couldn't have been more mediocre, even if the creators deliberately had tried to do so. However, it could still work, have emotions (except for moving story of Vilfort's life, they remain sitting on the bench and do not get into the game at all) and the football segments alone could have had the appropriate drive, which they do not have, as they are a disparate mix of archival footage with artificial fiction which is conflicting if together. As a result, it is a mediocre sports standard, which somehow works mainly thanks to Ulrich Thomsen, who handled well the most clichéd possible role of a skilled coach, which goes against the flow. (13/07/2016)