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Originally Posted by Devils'Advocate
I have dozens of friends who have seen it and loved it. I didn't like it. It couldn't make up its mind whether it was an action movie, a comedy movie, a drama.... it went for very long stretches with no action and went long stretches between laughs too.
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I don't understand modern society's obsession with categorizing things (not meant as a shot at you, DA, just something that jumped to mind). On tests in some English classes, you get graded on whether you can classify that book as "post-modern", "renaissance", "realistic wild animal story", etc. As far as I'm concerned, it's "good book", "bad book" or somewhere in between. Don't get me wrong, categories are useful...for things like deciding where to put/find a book/movie on the shelf, but when the worth of a work is judged on the basis of its genre, I just don't get it. (/rant)
As for how this movie might be classed...I would say it's a comedic action drama
. It falls clearly into the conventions of detective fiction, if you really want something specific.
It was mainly the hockey references that caught my attention, I think. It would have been a good movie regardless...funny, with good action, but it's the hockey side of things that made it stick out for me.