Mean Machine (DVD, 2002, Sensormatic)

In this remake of THE LONGEST YARD Robert Aldrich's 1974 Burt Reynolds prison tale concerning inmates who organize themselves into a football team and compete against the guards British director Barry Skolnick pulls together a ruthlessly funny cast and changes the resident sport to soccer. The leader of the prisoners played by Vinnie Jones (LOCK STOCK AND TWO SMOKING BARRELS) is a former soccer star who is asked by the warden to coach a team of prison guards. Instead he offers to put together a team of inmates who will be able to scrimmage with the guards' team.