Although I might be a little biased here given that I am a citizen I still recommend everyone to watch this. A roller coaster ride of emotions. Although it might be diffcult for people who show little or no interest in football, I still suggest that this a must watch. Blue moon!
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sharmavardhan17 August 2018
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ianhorrabin17 August 2018This isn't the first time there has been a backroom "fly on the wall" documentary of a professional football club. Amazing to see the full access to staff and players from Manchester City. Interesting to see how passionate Guardiola is and how well he works with the team and staff. Excellently produced. Seems however shaun-721-897376might be a Man United fan :)
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This is a fascinating documentary into modern football. I remember watching a similar programme about Neil Warnock's Sheffield Utd years ago and I suppose if you put this side by side with that it would paint a glaring picture of the way the sport, its players and its managers have changed forever. It's obvious from the outset that money drips off every part of the top level of this sport but it's interesting to see how it has been used to shape footballers into almost superhuman athletes with the best marketing in the world. The reason I enjoyed this documentary so much was mainly the insight it gives into Pep Guardiola. I have obviously heard all the cliches about the man before but this was the first time I felt actually understood why he has been so successful. Yes he has great teams and yes he gets huge amounts of financial support but his passion and outstanding man management are undeniable. Every scene featuring Guardiola is hugely watchable and often gripping.
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kduttgod18 August 2018Fans have mostly been kept in the dark regarding what goes behind the scenes at a football club, that too the size of Manchester City and other premier league clubs. This documentary has given unparalleled access to how the team talks, locker room, transfer strategies and daily functionings of the club work. Add to this the raw emotion and the best ever Premier league season for a team in history, this makes for a deeply informative and enthralling view for all football fans, though it is understandable how some rivals will frown upon this as is the culture in world football today. Amazon have done a far better job with Manchester City than Netflix did with Juventus with barely any access other than some different angles of press conferences etc. This is a joyride which takes you through the whole season the club had with every bit of happy, sad, painful and victorious moments as never seen before. This changes your perspective on club football. Amazing.
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abdulla-dashti17 August 2018Greatest season for manchester city portrayed in a beautiful cinematic documentary! Must watch for any fan!
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pob_2219 August 2018I'll start off by saying I'm a Man Utd fan. However, I'm a football fan first and foremost, I appreciate the artistry of football, I love watching teams who play beautifully and attack with creativity. And I take my hat off to Pep and the Man City team, they are wonderful to watch, a special team.
And thats what makes this documentary so good - not only do we get an unprecedented look behind the scenes of a premier league football club, we also get to see the journey Pep and his players took in a record-breaking season. It's a captivating story - if you are a fan of football, watch it. -
syddonnelly20 August 2018I am not a Manchester City supporter, I am however a fan of football, particularly when the game is played with style and panache. Fascinating to watch a renowned manager manage a team of very expensively assembled footballers. Is it possible to generate a team spirit within a group of highly paid sportsmen? Spending huge sums of money guarantees nothing, Hollywood big budget movies don't always hit the mark. Expensively assembled teams don't always perform as collectively as their price tag would imply. This 'fly on the wall' documentary gives outsiders the chance to see how a team is shaped. How a manager driven, almost manically, by if not perfection, at least by the desire to try to achieve perfection. The desire to win however does not come above all else. The club's understanding of David Silva's desire to take time away from the team to be with his wife and prematurely born son is handled with compassion and understanding. Of course we don't get the warts and all version, it's unreasonable to expect that, but we do get more insight into a big time football club than anyone could ever have believed possible. Truly fascinating.
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paulmcann20 August 2018I never write reviews, but felt compelled too after watching this show , I'm a huge Liverpool fan but so didn't know if I would like this , it just shows how hypocritical Jose Mourinho is after his comments about the show, this show is a must watch for any football fan, shows how footballers although they make a large amount of money, really it's all about winning.
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diegogigliani17 August 2018Incredible club, manager, season, access, film-making...
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rnkpatra00717 August 2018This is how documentaries should be!! Kudos to Amazon for providing us, the passionate fans of this beautiful game, a much needed, detailed insight. Aptly depicts how the life is at the zenith of the footballing pyramid. Maybe a difficult one to watch if you don't follow football, otherwise, you will experience every possible emotion. I will just end it with the famous quote of Martin Tylor: "Watch it, drink it in, I swear you'll never see something like this, again!!"
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mikemaclaine3 October 2018I've watched all of the 'All of Nothing' series and am equally interested in NFL, football and rugby but I found this one to be a massive disappointment.
It really doesn't deliver anything of particular interest, you don't get to know any of the players beyond the usual 'scratching the surface' kind of stuff and the episodes became repetitive. Perhaps it is a victim of the very nature of a football season in that there are 60 odd games to weave a story through, whereas the NFL and rugby series get to concentrate on far fewer games.
Hearing from Guardiola was interesting, but the majority of his dressing room and training ground appearances, (which should have been amazing as this is a side of football we never get to see), were indecipherable. I rarely had a clue what he was saying and judging by the looks on their faces, nor did the players.
Caring about the players is what can really make these series tick but you don't get anything from them beyond the kind of mundane stuff you regularly hear on Sky Sports or Match of the Day. I guess it's hard to get interesting sound bites or insights from the players when the majority of them speak English as a 2nd language. I wonder how much they were really allowed to say because they never spoke about anything of interest.
One of the elements of a football match that I have always been keen to see and hear, are the coaches and even the players discussing things on the bench during a game. Why was there almost none of this? The seemingly endless highlights of games would have benefited from having something to break them up and not hearing from anyone during the games felt like a missed opportunity.
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ollieevans17 August 2018Such a great insight into life as a Manchester City player last season. As a City fan, I loved every minute of it as I got to see a different view of how they live, work & play. Would recommend to any football fan.
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nickcantelow20 August 2018This documentary being agreed to by Manchester City is ground breaking, it's never been done before in the Premier League era. It's a different style to the Juventus one on Netflix, which focuses more on players and their lives Football, this is more of a football focused piece. We don't see much of the players outside of training or playing, which disappoints me a bit. I'd like to have seen how these guys live once they hang their boots up and head home.
That said it's fascinating to watch how Pep and his team work; in the modern day of ultra athletes. From training, tactics, motivation to cutting edge medical science this is an eye opener for the general public. If you're an avid football fan this is worth watching, and I believe will soon be done by most big clubs around Europe. -
freedmnetwork1 September 2018The entire thing is just too controlled, which makes everything seem too glossy and perfect. I reluctantly watched after being promised a previously unseen insight to the world of top level football. I did not receive this and instead sat through hours of advertising for man city.
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brideaujeremy17 August 2018If you're a EPL fan you'll love this. Manchester City did something extremely special! We are lucky to experience it.
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pvsteijn18 August 2018A season to remember and this series is memorable too.
Even though there aren't too many low points, the way you get to see everyone in and around the club deal with those, as well as all the highs as very well done.
The passion on display from the players, Pep and the backroom stuff, the heart and soul they seem to put into their work, even behind the scenes where we normally wouldn't see it.
100% recommend, even if not a City fan it's just all round interesting and fascinating to look at!
( Don't look at the bitter reviews that the United fans leave here - although, I'd be bitter too if a 'small club' with 'no fans' was better run than the so called biggest club in the world ;) ) -
rpjeweler17 August 2018What a team Manchester City was in 17/18, playing football we've never seen in the premier league before, the coverage of how they went about it included the good & bad times was just the icing on the cake really. Congratulations to Pep Guardiola and his team on a remarkable season despite all the critique he received when he first joined the league. The Centurions
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johnsphillips17 August 2018Incredible insight into the day to day life of a football club, its manager, players and staff. Made even more incredible by it covering one of the most remarkable seasons a premier league team has ever had.
However it's the humanity, pain, suffering, joy and elation on show that really gripped me. -
anandaarasu24 August 2018I watched the All or Nothing series about the New Zealand All Blacks Rugby and was very impressed by it. This new series on Manchester City has been just as outstanding. I wasn't a fan of City growing up, but appreciate the behind the scenes look at what it takes to run a professional EPL team. Well done Amazon, keep up the great work on the series. Plus, it opens the eyes of the local (US) audience to other sports like soccer and rugby!
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cairns1367 September 2018Great to see behind the scenes.awesome cinematography of a great season. Fantastic to see behind the scenes of a big football club.
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usmaanrazaq18 August 2018Absolutely brilliant, complete insight! Best football documentary you will ever watch. The way ot has been filmed is amazing too. Fantastic job by Manchester City and Amazon.
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supernova725 August 2018Before I start writing review. I would like to tell that I am neutral fan of premier league. I don't have preferences. I just enjoy it. This series give impression that it bash certain group here. José Mourinho. He is respected Manager in world football. Whatever he did at Chelsea. Documentary should not be judgemental and biased. He didn't accepted Kevin's talent at Chelsea. I have question. Whether City would sign him if he didn't have Stellar two seasons in Bundesliga. Nobody is above errors. But just to defamed him to show greatness of Kevin as City player is utterly non sense. I would say not must watch. But inside glimpse of professional football is good.
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As a neutral (well, kind of, Arsenal fan!), I understand why Manchester City Football Club would want to celebrate their record-breaking and historic 2017-2018 season, and I love the kind of football Guardiola's sides play. But 'All or Nothing' felt long-winded and repetitive to me. The excitement's over now, remember, we know what happened because we lived it (I mean the fans of the English Premier League). I realize the documentary's supposed to chronicle the whole season, but think the film-makers could have edited it down to just 1 or 2 episodes, perhaps a feature-length split over 2 parts. 8 episodes was just plain excessive.
The 'must-watch' comments I've read here exaggerate the access the film-makers were given. The club are not going to let sensitive stuff get aired publicly. Most of the talk was either obvious or, in the case of Guardiola's briefings, pretty indecipherable anyway. Other stuff would have been edited out at the club's discretion, it goes without saying. In fact, 'All or nothing' felt rather bland to me, devoid of much real drama and tension. If you're going to do 'fly on the wall' stuff, at least make it real and interesting. I enjoyed watching some of the chats and banter between players (for a few minutes, at least) and the football was presented professionally and in context (Ben Kingsley's voice began to grate, though).
People that follow football seriously kind of know what goes on in the background of clubs (through reports, local press, open days, interviews, biographies, sports documentaries etc.). You piece it all together. There's a mass of information out there for the fan, a lot of it ends up on sites like YouTube which I'm grateful for, and I'm not sure that this rather sanitized and 'managed' document of the season adds much to people's overall knowledge of 'The beautiful game'. The film's one saving grace for me was to give the outsider a glimpse of Pep's management style and his backroom staff which have a very strong presence around the players. There are some interesting characters among them, mostly Spanish people that followed Pep since he started managing at Barcelona. Look out for Manuel Estiarte, for example, a former Olympic water polo champion, Pep's so-called 'eyes and ears' around the dressing room (read: spy!). Sometimes you gleen more from things that are not said or referred to directly. But far too much of 'All or Nothing' was pretty inconsequential, and hard to take seriously with all its obvious show and publicity for the club and brand. It was a great season for that group of players and their manager, the football was amazing, but I couldn't get very worked up about the documentary itself. All the 10 out of 10's on IMDb are pretty meaningless. Football fans, try to be more objective and critical, please!
As a non-neutral, I was disappointed in Mike Arteta's involvement in the film, ill-advised. People can judge for themselves. Sorry, but I felt it was disrespectful to his previous club and its fans. Something unpleasant about Ya Ya Toure's final games for City, too. These are things 'All Or Nothing' doesn't really address, of course, just saying ... -
stevejacobs-2175023 August 2018Does anyone know when this will be released ?? Probably in time for Christmas ?! Only seen the first episode, as yet, but brilliant and addictive.....A lot of money has gone into this production and seems a million years since the first City VHS documentary 'Life with the Blues'....Done on the cheap !