Here we have an incredibly laughably bad story of a starry eyed dreamer immigrant and his family coming to the United States in search of a better life. (Nothing wrong with that but, at the sake of editorializing, it appears within 3 wks of entering the US theyre already living and working illegally) Our hero the son in the family was a hockey player back home in the Czech Republic and wants to play professionally so, he chases his dream to play for the LA Stars. And Holy $#!+ is this short movie freaking awful!
So bad Im going to skip the in-depth review and since it's a sports related movie, I'm just going to score it:
1: Luckily this thing is only 21minutes long but yet I still found myself ffwd'ing through half of it -2
2: The "professional hockey team" only has seven players that all appear to be over 40, out of shape and can barely skate. As a lifelong hockey player myself absolutely none of the hockey related dialogue sounds like anything you'd hear anywhere near a hockey rink -2
3: The dialogue (throughout, not just the hockey speak) sounds like it was written by an 8yr old... a very slow 8yr old -2
4: The acting... goodgoogly ooogly jeez Im tongue tied trying to explain just how awful the acting was. Good thing hockey sticks aren't made of wood anymore 'cuz I'd have a hard time telling them from the actors -4
5: The camera work and direction was not as bad as everything else. You expect with a flick this bad you'd see a boom mic, cut an actors head half out of frame or watch scenes out of focus +2
There you have it folks "Czech Mate on Ice" the hockey movie that makes the "Mighty Ducks" look the "Citizen Kane" of hockey movies
