I Don't Care for Hockey, I Loved This Movie!

Rating: Null/10 (18 February 2004)

I live in Minnesota where hockey nuts abound, but I never got into it. I certainly never watched it on TV or went to a live game. After seeing this exciting movie I just may sometime soon.
Kurt Russell does a terrific job playing the hardass hockey coach with a heart (Herb Brooks), and you can certainly tell the men playing the game on on-screen are real hockey players. They really show off their stuff and do a pretty good acting job as well. Even though I knew how the games ended I was still on the edge of my seat and I was tempted to yell at the screen. My wife, no big hockey fan herself, was right there with me, getting caught up in the action.
The players and Herb Brooks are all legends here in Minnesota, of course. We sometimes forget that the hockey players came from Massachusetts, Michigan and elsewhere. It certainly brings back some good memories from a bad time in this nation's history. For those of us who lived through it, we sure needed the win and this movie does a good job showing that need and the catharsis it brought to the nation.