There are only a few good sports movies, and Disney is not the place to find them. The athletics don't look real even if the story is good. There was already an attempt to do The Miracle on Ice in a TV movie in1981 and it stunk. I would never have thought there could be justice done to one of the greatest moments in sports or American history by a movie, it just doesn't work that way.
"Miracle" is as much an exception as the original event. If fact for those who watched the original 1980 US Hockey team miraculously capture Olympic gold this will bring you right back there to treasure the moments again. And more...
There were many stories about Herb Brooks that came out after the win, how he whipped the underdog US college hockey players into a team that beat maybe the greatest team ever to play the game, The Soviet Union. This movie is about that man and how he did it, as well as the players. It also has great hockey action to go with the story.
Kurt Russell gives one of the most underrated acting performances ever as Herb Brooks. In fact you don't even know he's acting, he completely takes on the character. With a few minor exceptions everything in this film feels real. Nothing Hollywood or pretensious here including the hockey. You are drawn right into the story you've read about or seen on TV. And what's more, you don't have to have lived the actual event or even be a sports fan to enjoy the movie. It is well done as a film too, without Hollywood dramatics or sentimentality. It feels as real as the original. It's an adult movie but family friendly without being Disney.
The insight into Brooks is dead on, the hockey is not simulated as in other sports movies, and as a Disney family film it still works as a major movie event. My wife and I have the DVD is watch it frequetly and she's not a hockey fan. This is excellent filmmaking for those new to the story and a pleasure to remember for those of us who had watched.
"Miracle" is as much an exception as the original event. If fact for those who watched the original 1980 US Hockey team miraculously capture Olympic gold this will bring you right back there to treasure the moments again. And more...
There were many stories about Herb Brooks that came out after the win, how he whipped the underdog US college hockey players into a team that beat maybe the greatest team ever to play the game, The Soviet Union. This movie is about that man and how he did it, as well as the players. It also has great hockey action to go with the story.
Kurt Russell gives one of the most underrated acting performances ever as Herb Brooks. In fact you don't even know he's acting, he completely takes on the character. With a few minor exceptions everything in this film feels real. Nothing Hollywood or pretensious here including the hockey. You are drawn right into the story you've read about or seen on TV. And what's more, you don't have to have lived the actual event or even be a sports fan to enjoy the movie. It is well done as a film too, without Hollywood dramatics or sentimentality. It feels as real as the original. It's an adult movie but family friendly without being Disney.
The insight into Brooks is dead on, the hockey is not simulated as in other sports movies, and as a Disney family film it still works as a major movie event. My wife and I have the DVD is watch it frequetly and she's not a hockey fan. This is excellent filmmaking for those new to the story and a pleasure to remember for those of us who had watched.
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