Goon
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| 22 Mar 2012, 11:18 AM |
| Brutal, bloody and presided over by a portrait of Her Majesty the Queen, the Canadian ice hockey in this movie is a cross between Rollerball and a prison riot: harking back to the robust certainties of Paul Newman's 1977 bonecruncher Slap Shot. It's a surprisingly watchable, big-hearted yet unsentimental film about a dumb lunk called Doug Glatt, played by Seann William Scott, who has filled out a bit since his American Pie days. Watching a hockey match with his buddy Pat (Jay Baruchel), Doug becomes a local hero for getting into a fight with a player and winds up getting hired on a semi-pro team as a "goon", a violent brawler whose only job is to protect the talented players from getting hospitalised by opponents – by hospitalising them first. Doug's big enemy is veteran bruiser Ross Rhea (Liev Schrieber) with whom he gets an eve-of-battle meeting over coffee, like De Niro and Pacino in Heat. It's a cheerfully crass film but put together with chutzpah, and Alison Pill (Zelda Fitzgerald in Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris) is unpretentiously engaging as Eva, the girl with whom poor Doug falls in love.
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