Goon
Dir: Michael Dowse
2011
***
I know very little about Ice Hockey but I do know that it can be pretty violent at times. If I didn't already know that then I certainly would have after watching Goon. An unsweetened bit of realism then and that's never a bad thing. However, I didn't like the humour very much. Well done to Jay Baruchel who has written a good film in his first attempt, he just should have thought about writing himself out of it. I'm not a fan of Seann William Scott, Ice Hockey, violence or most things contained in this film but somehow I quite liked it, maybe it was the romance or the freshness of the disjointed narrative, I don't know, but it works!