Bjork Video:

		List Price: $24.95		Label: Here Salesrank: 46255 Released: March 4, 2008
		Our Price: $15.48
		Used Price: $9.25
		MPAA Rating: R (Restricted) Media: DVD

Editorial Review:
The star player of Iceland’s top soccer team causes controversy when he admits to being gay to his teammates. He soon finds himself ostracized by his team and decides to call it quits to join a small amateur league made up of gay men trying to play football in a straight, macho world of sports.

Eleven Men Out Reviews:
this thing is crap
2009-10-07 - I have to say I have a relatively low expectation for most gay-oriented films but this one came in even under those standards...I couldn't relist this on Amazon fast enough...I keep dropping the price and no one wants it...I should have known.

Lousy story line, lousy acting, no suspense and even the gratuitous sex sucked...I have now spent more of my life on this movie than it deserves...Peace Out

Remarkably, consistently, ridiculously bad.
2009-09-09 - We did watch it all the way through... but it was along the lines of watching a car wreck. We kept thinking that at some point there would be a single scene that makes sense. We have a main character who doesn't talk much and who quickly appears to be a self involved jerk. Lots of scenes where people are talking in circles and the plot is not carried forward... there are virtually no scenes involving two characters actually communicating and listening. It seemed that events all happened off screen and we just jump from aftermath to aftermath in a confusing jumbled pattern of meaningless editing. And... nothing happens... I suspect the actors are not footballers as we never see any football actually played. GUYS AND BALLS has the same exact plot and is a much better film. ELEVEN MEN OUT is useful in the sense that it shows what not to do as a film maker. Good films are about character and character development- which means that you have to let us actually meet the characters in the story.

Bad to worse
2009-03-16 - "A hilarious comedy?" "A crowd pleaser?" That's what it says on the box. Ah, no. Was it Rocky? Kramer VS Kramer? Funny? NO! Another tired attempt at a 'gay' movie. Forget romance. There's none. Oh, except, 'Blow me," uttered by the star during one scene. After his gay boyfriend does, our 'gay' soccer star, who came out in the first scene just to be on the cover of a magazine? Err okay, why? He, for no reason...sleeps with his --beastly-- alchy trophy wife. Gag. Has a son who seems more gay than he does, and is certainly old enough to get a clue, mopes around more than a cartoon parody of something from South Park. A film filled with cliche' parents, soccer coaches, teammates and more homophobia than is believable in a 2005 release. And it even had an ending that was not worth the agony of the 84 excruciating minutes of 2 dimensional characters. Not one character was explored in depth. Not even the beauty of the leading man could hold me for this one. Why can't anyone make a decent gay movie about love, pride, romance and leave out the pathetic done again and again sappy BS? Another waste of good income. Skip it!

Realistic but very feel good
2008-10-22 - This seems to be a film that people either love or hate, judging by some of the reviews here. I fell for the "feel" of the movie, it's sometimes slow but always has a gentle and feel good rhythm to it. I thought most of the situations were handled realistically, situations regarding the main characters family and teenage son. I enjoyed the fact that although this film is very much about football, you don't actually see any footage of the game itself. The film centers more on the background of sports and what it is like to "come out" as a pro-footballer. The soundtrack of the film is also excellent, a throwback to 80's glam metal. This is one of the best foreign language films I've seen in a long time.

Somewhat pleasant, but lacks substance to be really good.
2008-08-11 - With the Olympic Games grabbing their share of the headlines these days, let's look at a film about an athlete "coming out" in another country ... Iceland.

"Eleven Men Out" (Iceland, 2005) is about a soccer star on one of the best amateur teams in that country, who abruptly decides to "come out" as gay, much to the surprise and complete shock of his teammates, father (who is apparently the head coach of the team), mother, siblings, ex-wife and teenage son. It doesn't go well, with his son ashamed of him, his ex-wife using it as an excuse to relapse with an alcohol problem, and the team trustees benching him until they eventually decide he can no longer play there. A friend who coaches a lesser-known (and apparently much more diverse, with several openly gay members) team invites him to join, and the "Pride" - which becomes almost 100% gay as others hear about it - starts to rack up victories, eventually taking on his old team, in a sold-out game on Gay Pride Day in Iceland.

It's a pleasant coming-out story, but seems more like a documentary than a film with characters and a plot. We never really get to know Ottar (the player who "outs" himself) beyond the facts that he has a past and is somewhat self-centered in not considering (and preparing others for) the possible implications of his announcement to the press, as well as in dealing with a teammate he starts dating. Some of the dialogue seems ad-libbed and frivilous, but that could be due to the fact that I was following English subtitles (The film is in Icelandic). Several seemingly gratuitious shots of the players in the shower make this seem almost like a "Full Monty" remake at times, and the ending - though perhaps realistic - is too abrupt. Similar stories have been told better, and this could have been too.

DVD includes several featurettes about gay amateur athletes. I give it three stars out of five.