It was okay. Just okay. Nothing spectacular, nothing terrible either.

I think the same way _Taika Waititi_'s last movie, _Thor: Love and Thunder_ was flawed with lots and lots of cheesy often even bad jokes, _Next Goal Wins_ is flawed. If you ask me the jokes are better than in _Thor: Love and Thunder_ but still way to much.
The plot it self was a great "idea", if you can say so, as it is of course based on a true story.
The film still had a good entertainment value through it's cheesy jokes. Let's put it like this: I wasn't bored at the theatre.
Acting was okay i guess. The characters were okay as well. There was sadly no real good character development, of course [spoiler] the team's mindset and _Thomas Rongen_'s mindset in perticular were changed throughout the film [/spoiler], but I still wished for a greater/better character developement than this predictable yet fair development.
One of my biggest issues with this flick is the cinematography. I mean there there were almost only medium shots or other "normal" shots in order to convey the dialogue/whats happening. There were nearly no "establishing shots" (extreme wide shots) nor any other interesting shots it was just a really boring shot movie. If _Lachlan Milne_ was responsible for this, then I am really disappointed with his work here. If the comparatively small budget of 14 Million USD was the reason for this, the I will let it slide..

I don't want to shit talk this movie here, but these two aspects really annoyed me throughout the whole movie.
However these two aspects being bad don't mean that the whole movie is bad.
It's an "mid" movie. As I already said, nothing spectacular, nothing terrible either.
Kind of forgettable I believe.


>==My personal rating:==
-Plot (Story Arc and Plausibility): 6/10
-Attraction (Premise & Entertainment Value): 6/10
-Theme (Identity & Depth): 5/10
-Acting (Characters & Performance): 5/10
-Dialogue (Storytelling & Context): 5/10
-Cinematography (Visual Language & Lighting, Setting, and Wardrobe): 4/10
-Editing (Pace & Effects): 4.5/10
-Soundtrack (Sound Design & Film Score): 6/10
-Directing (Vision & Execution): 5/10
-The “It” Factor (One-of-a-Kind & Transcendent): 5/10

>**Overall: 5/10 || 51.5/100**