Thrilling Bit Of Nostalgia

Rating: 9/10 (9 February 2004)

I can still remember the 1980 Olympics and that fateful hockey game with the Russians - the first time I had watched a hockey game from beginning to end. The film provided a thrilling bit of nostalgia. Kurt Russell did a spectacular job as Herb Brooks. The director also managed to maintain the differences among all of the players so that we could identify them on the screen (with large casts, characters tend to blend together). The only knock I have (besides the obvious factual manipulations and the rah-rah U.S stuff) was that there wasn't enough individual drama, only a taste of it with Brooks and Jim Craig. But that is a small point indeed. This was a very good film.