Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7314 in DVD
• Released on: 2006-11-27
• Rating: Exempt
• Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: Hindi, English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 108 minutes

Synopsis
Features exciting action from the FIFA 2006 World Cup tournament, which was held in Germany and saw 32 countries battle it out to become football champions of the world. Features interviews with Jens Lehmann, Didier Drogba, and Michael Ballack, among others.

Customer Reviews

very poor
This has to be the worst World Cup film I have ever seen. Of all the matches they could have shown they had to focus on boring England's dull draw against Portugal, hardly the best match ever. Why did they think people wanted towatch that? There's so much missing from this over priced and badly edited video that it just isn't worth it. Save your money.

NEITHER SHAKEN NOR STIRRED.
I thought the 2006 World Cup was brilliant, mind you, I am an Italy fan, but this film, although it has it`s good points, such as different camera angles, doesn`t do it for me. Someone else has said that while some games are ignored,( for instance the epic France v Brazil Quarter-Final is merely mentioned in passing,) other poorer games get shown. Where is the dramatic last grasp Totti penalty against Australia? In fact Italy only feature three times in the whole thing! I actually thought the interviews were good and the footage of the preparation for the Final was awesome. Brosnan`s commentary sounded as if he had taken one sleeping tablet too many. A wasted opportunity.

Total Disappointment
Considering how great the 2006 World Cup was you'd think it would be pretty hard to produce a useless video of it. All those hours and hours of great football, the wonderful atmosphere in Germany and, England's poor performance apart, a real treat for football fans all over the world. Well, FIFA have pulled off the impossible here and produced a video that captures none of the excitement, none of the passion and not even that much of the football. Only a fraction of the games are actually covered; some for too long, others for not long enough. So most of the great goals and the best action are missing. And even the matches that are covered are not filmed from the normal angle (i.e. looking down onto the pitch) but instead from the players' view which means you see next to nothing of the overall action. And with the commentary patchy at best there's hardly anything to get excited about - the atmosphere is more funereal rather than a carnival of football. Overall it feels like it was made and edited by people with no idea about nor feeling for the Beautiful Game - even the interviews included are dull. I mean, is the best question to ask Jens Lehman about the world cup really how important concentration is for a goalkeeper? It's pathetic. And all this nonsense doesn't even come cheap. A poor souvenir of a great world cup. My advice would be to save your money and your happy memories of the World Cup and look elsewhere.