youngblood

When i put this in i was ready for the worst. Rob Lowe and Patrick Swayze are hockey players in the minors. Lowe is kinda a gretzky, lafluer-ish player fast as hell but not a fighter. He needs to get into the juniors to persue his dream of a NHL career. So he tries out and gets on the team and has some hijinxs a goon takes out swayze the team captian during the memorial cup finals. Lowe leaves and trains to fight in a week, with his brother back on the farm, then comes back scores a bunch and beats up the guy that hurt his friend. It is incredibly dated but still a decent story, it glosses over some of the background stuff and the acting seems really forced, but it's not the acting, you believe in the characters its the writing. It seems like they took a stock script and just dropped in hockey, but the hockey stuff is good the rest is kinda crappy. anyway its decent but not great.

3 out 5 taco sauce packets

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