Saturday, December 1, 2018

Breakaway 2011


     Rajveer is a hockey fanatic living in Toronto Canada and his family is originally from India.  His father wants him to concentrate on his work in the family business and not spend so much time and energy on hockey. Rajveer begins to have more hope for a hockey career after their team gets help from a new coach.  Also, the family business signs on as their sponsor to provide new uniforms.  Its possible the team may have a chance at the Stanley Cup competition.  Rajveer starts to become more conflicted over his Sikh religion, the objections of his father and his family traditions.
     I have two problems with this hockey-meets-Bollywood film.  The first problem is the sudden bursting into song and dance.  The second problem is the tiredness of every step being so predictable with no surprises.  I could not finish watching this film because I could see where every scene was leading.  2* (I didn’t like this movie)

99 min, Drama directed by Robert H. Lieberman with Vinay Virmanj, Camilla Belle, Rob Lowe, Russell Peters, Anupam Kher, Gurpreet Ghuggi, Sakina Jaffrey, Noureen DeWulf, Kashish Suri, Pamela Sinha, Prem Singh, Al Mukadam, Ali Hassan.

Note:  Imdb 5.8 out of 10, 20% critic 36% audience on Rotten Tomatoes, Amazon 3 ½* out of 5* with 61 reviews, Blu-Ray.com 6.5 out of 10, Letterboxd.com 2.7* out of 5*.  
Special Note:  Filmed in Toronto, Ontario Canada.  There is a scene with Rob Lowe wearing a Mustang’s #10 Shirt.  This is homage to the movie Youngblood where Rob Lowe was Dean Youngblood.  He wore #10 for the Mustangs.  There is a mistake when the coach gives Rajveer a captain’s jersey.  All the players move out and as they pass him, he’s wearing the jersey?  There are three other films with the same title from 1966, 1995 and 2002.   

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