Maybe it's just me

Rating: 8/10 (31 July 2004)

There's a but coming up. Well-filmed story of the 1980 U.S. Men's Ice Hockey team's gold medal performance, long before the dreadful "Dream Teams" and corporate over-sponsorship, and probably what was and will be America's greatest Olympic moment in my lifetime. I'm the first guy to bitch when they "Hollywood-ize" a movie, you know, they take the basic story and then add so much fake stuff. And I think Kurt Russell is just tops, I mean, if they made Remo Hightower football shoes I'd go out and buy two pairs. I'm old enough to pretty clearly remember this and the context of the political times. That's part of my problem, this movie is so close to the real thing I ended up Jonesin' for a documentary about the real thing rather than this rework. Or maybe I'm just too old. 8 out of 10