Burt Reynolds, please retire from movies!
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Mystery, Alaska (1999)
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Reviews Counted:77
Fresh:29
Rotten:48
Average Rating:4.9/10
Consensus: The lack of hockey action and authenticity left critics cold.
Runtime: 1 hr 59 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: When former resident Charles Danner (Azaria) writes a Sports Illustrated article exposing the "Saturday Game," the town of Mystery, Alaska is turned upside down. The game, a Mystery tradition,... [More]
Starring: Russell Crowe, Hank Azaria, Mary McCormack, Burt Reynolds
Director: M. Jay Roach
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Reviews for Mystery, Alaska
For as cold as it gets up north, these people sure make a warm picture.
01/01/00
You laugh often; you sniffle a bit; and you cheer loudly.
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Top CriticThis is an attractive, talented, most companionable cast.
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It's a credit to the actors, director and writers that Mystery holds your attention.
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...its emotions are so counterfeit that the Treasury Department should be alerted.
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Sappy, half-baked.
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Hockey film leaves you cold.
01/01/00
While sports may well be the toy department of life, hanging out there is often what creates and sustains community.
03/04/02
Kelley is obviously aware that to make the move from TV to films he must fill his scripts with greater depth and density.
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Top CriticMore hockey and less quirky drama might have saved this yawner.
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Top CriticIt contains nothing more than weather and a set of one-dimensional cut-outs.
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Top CriticWith so many characters and plotlines, it seems that TV king Kelley mistook this big-screen assignment for another network pilot.
01/03/09
These character sketches and inklings of romantic liaisons and family squabbles never coalesce into consequence or narrative.
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Mystery, Alaska is sweet, pleasant, low-key, inoffensive and unnecessary.
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Top CriticThere is life, death and hockey. And if that is your trinity, then Mystery, Alaska is your kind of movie.
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The hockey game itself is nothing special, with neither the kinetic excitement nor the dramatic tension needed to bring the scenes to life.
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Crowe gives the kind of thoughtful performance that suggests what Mystery, Alaska could have been if it had stayed in focus.
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Conveys some of the thrill and ferocity of ice hockey while skillfully folding together multiple personal dramas.
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Top CriticA hybrid of sports movies and TV sitcoms with little originality and few surprises or memorably rough edges.
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