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A feel good movie about hockey and since I live in Canada, I guess I have to love it, right? While the film is indeed a few good comedy centred around hockey, the film doesn't showcase any real exciting moments on the ice. It's a shame because the film does a decent build up to the "big game".
A small town hockey team is written about in a newspaper and a game is quickly set-up between them and the New York Rangers. Can this rag tag team of nobodies keep up with professionals?
Mystery, Alaska is pleasant, funny at times and well intentioned, while it lacks exciting ice sequences it makes up for it with the dedication it gives to the small town life and the characters that inhabit it. The film works mainly because of the cast, they all work well together, have fun and are believable...even Russell Crowe. Despite his lack of ice skating skills, you does well as the old-timer Sheriff who still wants to skate with the young kids. Burt Reynolds plays his usual curmudgeon self and a "that-guy" cast of characters fill out the rest.
Mystery, Alaska
A feel good movie about hockey and since I live in Canada, I guess I have to love it, right? While the film is indeed a few good comedy centred around hockey, the film doesn't showcase any real exciting moments on the ice. It's a shame because the film does a decent build up to the "big game".
A small town hockey team is written about in a newspaper and a game is quickly set-up between them and the New York Rangers. Can this rag tag team of nobodies keep up with professionals?
Mystery, Alaska is pleasant, funny at times and well intentioned, while it lacks exciting ice sequences it makes up for it with the dedication it gives to the small town life and the characters that inhabit it. The film works mainly because of the cast, they all work well together, have fun and are believable...even Russell Crowe. Despite his lack of ice skating skills, you does well as the old-timer Sheriff who still wants to skate with the young kids. Burt Reynolds plays his usual curmudgeon self and a "that-guy" cast of characters fill out the rest.