An average movie

To be honest, I didn’t have some really high expectations before watching this flick. In fact, I was even warned by a fellow listal member that it was a really unnecessary sequel (on the other hand, isn’t it the case with most sequels?!) but, since it was available on Netflix, I thought I might as well check it out anyway. Well, I still think that a couple of ideas were pretty neat. Indeed, Anders Cain was a badass character, Wyatt Russel was really charismatic and I also enjoyed the dynamic in Doug Glatt’s team. Unfortunately, well, pretty much nothing else really worked. Indeed, while its predecessor might have been too generic and predictable, at least, it was rather well written and it had a solid narrative structure. With this sequel, they kept going back in forth with some ideas which were never really interesting in the first place. For example, the retirement thing is one of the lamest gimmick in the sports genre and Doug Platt eventually did retire not once but twice during this movie. Another example was with Anders Cain who, within the same season, played against Glatt, then for the Hurricanes but without Glatt, then for the Hurricanes with Glatt and, finally, he was back in his previous team to play again against the main character. Not only it seems hardly believable that it would happen during such a short time period (but who knows? Maybe it’s possible on such low hockey leagues...) but, above all, what was the point? Then, the main character had some struggle at his new regular job, he had some trouble with the wifey,... All this was just terribly generic, rather tedious and barely developed whatsoever. Finally, except for Elisha Cuthbert who was surprisingly funny, most of the jokes turned out to be rather lame. Anyway, to conclude, the more I think about it, the more I believe that my rating was actually too high for this movie but I guess it might still be worth a look though, if you really like the genre.

6/10