Mystery, Alaska

Pros: Original concept, good use of dark comedy, consistently good performances.
Cons: Sometimes melodramatic, key elements are missing from the script, the way the game is played.

Sports fans are always coming up with “what if?” scenarios for their favorite professional clubs and athletes as well as their local teams. They’re the kind of situations that could never actually happen because of time (what if Muhammad Ali ...

Pros: Russell Crowe, beautiful scenery, inspiring, funny
Cons: too boring for some people

I'll admit it, the first time I saw Mystery, Alaska was the first time in my life that I thought about hockey. In fact, I started watching hockey... and still do when I can. =) So, while there's much hockey in this movie I don't feel you need to...

Pros: Stellar cast; interesting premise
Cons: Slow, slow pacing

It never seems to fail. Show me a movie about hockey and I will get sucked into watching it without any question. It's just an innate trait that's planted at birth for anyone born in Canada. So when Mystery, Alaska was on the tube while I was ...

Pros: A film with real heart.
Cons: None.

I found this gem- having never heard or read anything about it. I'm a David E. Kelly fan so it didn't surprise me that, after watching this lovely little film unfold, I fell in love with it. The thrust of the film is that a former resident (Hank ...

Pros: great scenery; some good skating
Cons: basically a stupid premise

For those of you who came of late to the lore of ice hockey, here is my sole claim to fame: I was in the arena for Wayne Gretzky's first professional hockey game. That's more than twenty-five years ago, for those of you who are keeping count. And no, it...

Pros: Gives respect to small town life
Cons: predictible

Mystery Alaska is one of those movies where you cheer for the home team, and issues get resolved, all in an hour and a half. Mystery is a hockey town, with heart. Everyone skates in this town. Everything is frozen over, and they skate on the frozen...

Pros: Great Scenery; Good Story
Cons: A little unbelievable

We initially rented this movie because it was guaranteed at Blockbuster Video to be liked or your money was refunded in the form of a store coupon. We figured that the movie must be good, so we rented it not knowing what it was about.

My...

Pros: Crowe, Azaria, Meaney, Reynolds and a great hockey game.
Cons: It was boring in the beginning and took too much time to get to the plot of the movie.

Directed by M. Jay Roach ("Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery" and "Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me") and written by David E. Kelly ("The Practice", "Ally McBeal" and "L.A. Law"), Mystery,...

Pros: Fun little romp. Burt Reynolds gets better looking with age.
Cons: some unanswered questions from subplots.

What is there to do where the temperature is minus 30? Only two things that the residents of Mystery, Alaska can think of.

Hockey and fornication.

In this wee town where hockey is king, men are her slaves and women are good for...

Pros: Mike Myers' cameo, real Rangers, Russell Crowe
Cons: female characters who are dimwits, subplots that go nowhere, Burt Reynolds

I adore you. You are a genius and you're dead sexy to boot. On even your worst day, you make Marlon Brando look like Pauly Shore. I'm sorry to say, darling, this was your worst day.

You're as good as you can be in this movie. I am a hockey...

Pros: Some laughs, poses an interesting question.
Cons: Predictable in spots

What would happen if there was a town in Alaska, where the boys practically grew up on skates and where they spent every Saturday playing hockey on the ice pond? They'd be pretty great skaters right? Pretty great hockey players too, huh?

Would...

Pros: Funny, Inspiring
Cons: Burt Reynolds plays a mean guy

Mystery, Alaska was one of those movies that just made you feel happy after watching it. When my husband brought this home from the video store the other night, I groaned, “Oh great, a hockey movie, woohoo.” (Very sarcastically!) So with little...

Pros: Sports movies always have good endings.
Cons: It's like a 'Sports Movie Quilt'.

Writer David E. Kelley once again inspires millions of struggling screenwriters by proving you can be a critical and financial powerhouse without possessing one new idea. He must have one hell of a Word program, because he just cuts and pastes scenes...

Pros: A bit of quirky charm in places.
Cons: Too much sensitivity, not enough hockey.

My husband dragged me to see this movie, which in and of itself is probably an historic occasion because I doubt any guy has ever forced any woman to see anything created by David E. Kelly. I can't fault him, however, for two reasons: 1) the previews...

Pros: Wonderful Underdog Story With An Absolutely Enchanting Story
Cons: Film Contains Partial Nudity and Way Too Much Profanity

There are very few movies which I would like to see on the big screen at the box office, and even fewer R rated movies. However, when I saw the previews of Mystery, Alaska, I knew that I had to go see this movie on the big screen.
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