Vardy v Rooney: A Courtroom Drama (2022) User Reviews

Strangely entertaining.

[Sleepin_Dragon · 7/10 · 26 December 2022]

Fed up of her personal information being leaked to The Sun, Coleen Rooney sets an online trap, to share the culprit who's been selling her information, one Rebekah Vardy.

As crazy a drama as the real life story was. I wasn't going to watch it, but having seen the involvement of Sheen, both in front of and behind the camera, I gave it a go. I'm glad I did, it was entertaining.

Sheen, Creswell and Tena are all excellent.

It is exactly as expected, it's nonsense, it's outrageous, it's over the top, but did it serve as an escape from the troubles of everyday life, Covid, cost of living etc.

You couldn't turn on the news, or a chat show without mention of the trial, it was a huge story, and let's be fair, it was crazy. A storm in a teacup, as everyday people battled the cost of living crisis?

It's well made, it's well acted, approach it knowing what it is, fluff.

7/10.

First rate courtroom drama

[malcolmgsw · 7/10 · 23 December 2022]

As a retired lawyer i took a professional interest in this drama. I most enjoyed the first half where the excellent Michael Sheen was testing Vardys evidence to shreds. The court procedures were familiar to me,though I understand that they could have put off some viewers. The performances were excellent,with the exception of the actor playing Wayne Rooney.

It is difficult to understand how this case came to court. Would be interesting to know the advice she received from her legal team. Surely they must have realised that Barry was on a hiding to nothing Having previously read accounts via the Law Society Gazette,this brought it to life for me.

Rehash of the trial transcripts that brings nothing new to the party

[JRB-NorthernSoul · 5/10 · 22 December 2022]

Given that the whole planet probably knows the outcome of the trial this dramatisation needed to be super smart to be more entertaining than the orginal story as it played out. Sadly it fell short.

Essentially its a two part re-enactment of the trial without any new information or behind the scenes drama. Instead we got a lot of irritating cutaways to WhatsApp messages being sent and journalists news reports from the time.

Production values were OK, Michael Sheen was the star of the show and the plinky-plonky soundtrack didn't help.

If you're somehow not familiar with the ins and outs of the case it could be a fun watch, otherwise I'd give it a miss as there is no dramatic tension. The docs about the saga are better value.

Embarrassed to be British

[chris_rowe-881-168820 · 1/10 · 6 January 2023]

There's such a low bar to be considered a celebrity nowadays yet even though the bar is lower and worse and worse people are getting status, importance put on these people is for some reason getting raised and they have more and more impact on society, it won't be long till we see a celeb influence politics whilst still struggling with Velcro shoes.

This kinda thing makes me embarrassed to be British, leaks are bad when it's stuff that's important, Colleen doesn't have or do anything that equals the level of importance that a court needs to be wasted and even more embarrassingly that a tv show needs creating to glamorise these simpletons.

It's embarrassing for both ladies as women and mothers, you'd think in an age when equality is so important stuff like this sets women back. I think the true moral of this story is one people are missing, we need to appreciate the famous no doubt, but only ones who add something to the world, I don't mean they have no worth but they have a talent that brings joy, days of influencers or posers should end. The importance should be knocked down massively.

There's almost an acceptance that both attractive and famous people get an easier ride in Britain whilst hard working people continually have their lives stretched and attacked until they're borderline untenable. This needs to stop. Someone value should only be decided on the good they do, I'd much rather a minimum wage mom of 3 who does charity work gets treated as important over a girl who alters her pictures till she's pretty.

There's a spate of movies or tv shows that glamorise the pointless, are just documentaries that amount to someone reading Wikipedia, from she said to the Whitney movie to this, it'll have cost so much to make yet serves no purpose to society or even adds any detail that's new!

Shame on Sheen to. That dude used to have credibility.

Two hours of my life I will never get back

[the_venetian · 2/10 · 25 December 2022]

I had been vaguely aware of this trial, and the principals in it -- hard to avoid. But as someone who does not use social media, I was not much interested. However I like a courtroom drama and decided to watch.

I agree that it added nothing to my knowledge, sketchy as that was, nor to the sum of human understanding. I suppose the performances were fine. But the people being portrayed live in such a tawdry little world. I believe the outcome was correct, but, really, who cares? Coleen Rooney shares the trivia of her essentially meaningless life on Instagram to hundreds if not thousands of "followers," who for some obscure reason give a damn what a trophy wife with a hideous accent and pots of dosh does with her day. Rebekah Vardy, who apparently aspires to Rooney's eminence in the footballers' wives circuit -- something that presumably devolves from her husband's eminence in the game -- is so anxious to be a celebrity that she leaks information to a tabloid. If, as she stated, she wished to attain financial independence from these snippets, then The Sun is paying far too much for trash they could acquire by signing on to "follow" Rooney themselves.

The only thing I took from this worthless use of talent was to thank my lucky stars that I had resisted any temptation, not that I ever had one, to use social media. By the trivial for the trivial, and nasty with it. And if anything showed the vacuity of celebrity culture it is this. An adult woman sat in a court of law and could not recognise the term Davy Jones' locker. While throwing her employee, who for some obscure reason was not subpoenaed, under a bus.

Ridiculous amount of texts and alert sounds!!!

[blueskystyling · 4/10 · 13 January 2023]

I couldn't get past 10 minutes of this because of the constant text and tweet alert sounds going on. Then there were the rapid fire visuals on tweets, Facebook posts and texts that we we're supposed to read to understand the content- forget it! I watch streaming content to get away from all of that irritation!

I couldn't even begin to discern what the plot line and character portraits were.

I suppose the whole series was targeted to those who grew up with those constant pings and beeps and texts and tweets and posts. Granted the story was about how social media use affects people's lives but, well, the form was as irritating as the function.

I'm rethinking all of my movie choices from now on....

[ourelbi · 1/10 · 22 October 2023]

I watched this because of Michael Sheen. I'm not British, so I didn't even realise when I started that this was based on actual events, and have no idea about these people. I wish I had chosen differently, because this was terrible.

I continued watching because, well, I couldn't be bothered choosing anything else, and it was too early for bed. This "movie" definitely made me ready for sleep, because, again, this was terrible.

I can only imagine what it must have been like for the people of Great Britain to have to endure day after day "news" coverage of this first-world-problem story - thankfully this only went for 90 minutes or something, but still, this was long enough. What was Michael Sheen thinking, because this was terrible.