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Here we have an incredibly laughably bad story of a starry eyed dreamer immigrant and his family coming to the United States in search of a better life. (Nothing wrong with that but, at the sake of editorializing, it appears within 3 wks of entering the US theyre already living and working illegally) Our hero the son in the family was a hockey player back home in the Czech Republic and wants to play professionally so, he chases his dream to play for the LA Stars. And Holy $#!+ is this short movie freaking awful! So bad Im going to skip the in-depth review and since it's a sports related movie, I'm just going to score it:

1: Luckily this thing is only 21minutes long but yet I still found myself ffwd'ing through half of it -2

2: The "professional hockey team" only has seven players that all appear to be over 40, out of shape and can barely skate. As a lifelong hockey player myself absolutely none of the hockey related dialogue sounds like anything you'd hear anywhere near a hockey rink -2

3: The dialogue (throughout, not just the hockey speak) sounds like it was written by an 8yr old... a very slow 8yr old -2

4: The acting... goodgoogly ooogly jeez Im tongue tied trying to explain just how awful the acting was. Good thing hockey sticks aren't made of wood anymore 'cuz I'd have a hard time telling them from the actors -4

5: The camera work and direction was not as bad as everything else. You expect with a flick this bad you'd see a boom mic, cut an actors head half out of frame or watch scenes out of focus +2

There you have it folks "Czech Mate on Ice" the hockey movie that makes the "Mighty Ducks" look the "Citizen Kane" of hockey movies

Please don't make the same mistake as I just have by paying money to watch this.