CommentsXp Best movie ever!

Whitech It is not only a funny movie, but it allows a great amount of joy for anyone who watches it.

StyleSk8r At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

djfrost-46786 For one, anyone from the Lost TV show in a movie gets a star from me. Love the Dougie name, hmmm Goon. Oh n he plays hockey. Alot of things remind me of Blades Of Glory. This isn't anything 7 or above, but it's cute.

SnoopyStyle It's the 1988 Winter Olympics at Calgary. Doug Dorsey (D.B. Sweeney) is a promising hockey player, but his career is cut short by an eye injury. Kate Moseley (Moira Kelly) is a spoiled temperamental pairs figure skater who goes through every partner. Then 2 years later, Moseley still can't find a partner, and Dorsey can't find a team. Her coach Anton Pamchenko decides to put them together despite their combative relationship.They have good chemistry together. Their combative nature is the perfect heat for a relationship. It is a fundamental building block to a good rom-com. That's what we have here. Two perfectly match solid actors doing a good rom-com. Moira Kelly has the perfect indignant pout, and Sweeney has a great sly smirk.

bkoganbing After viewing The Cutting Edge I realize that I saw some of this same story a few weeks ago when I watched Sonja Henie in It's Your Pleasure. In that film Michael O'Shea is a professional hockey player who gets banned for life after slugging a referee and Henie recruits and trains him to be her partner in her ice show.No professionals here just talented amateurs. D.B. Sweeney takes a nasty blow during the Olympics in Calgary which robs him of peripheral vision on one side, bad for hockey player where you have to see some opponents coming up on both sides if you have the puck. His career, his hopes of making it to the National Hockey League is over.At the same time Moira Kelly is a talented, but really temperamental figure skater, a Tonya Harding in the making, who blows the finals at Calgary when she and her partner fail to land a big move. She's decided she needs a new partner. If she's to do well at Albertville four years later she has to have a new partner. But the problem is that she's got such a bad reputation no one will skate with her.I think you can see where this one is going without too much trouble. The problem I had with The Cutting Edge is the same one I had with the Sonja Henie film, the skills for hockey skating aren't the same for figure skating. I really can't see a Maurice Richard or a Gordie Howe ever making it in figure skating.Still Sweeney and Kelly are an attractive couple and through some clever editing, distance and rear view cinematography, and shots of them from the neck up on ice you do get the feeling you are watching them if only for a moment. Of course Kelly will never be confused with Sonja Henie and they didn't even try to actually show Michael O'Shea as a figure skater. But both Sweeney and Kelly look far better than James Stewart, Joan Crawford, and Lew Ayres did as skaters in Ice Follies Of 1939.This is definitely a nice film for fans of figure skating and young romance.

Hunky Stud I watched the sequel first, I thought that it was pretty good. So I watched this one after, wow, I am totally impressed. The camera person certainly did a much better job than the person who shot the second movie.In the sequel movie, you can clearly see the faces of those doubles, and instantly tell when they first appear. That breaks the continuity of that movie because you are constantly reminded that they are not the real deal. In this first movie, the cinematographer hid those doubles' identities very well with different angles and lighting, I certainly can't tell which is which. It looked as if those two characters can really skate.And they acted well, so you believed in them. In the sequel, those two actors played hard, but you can tell that they don't really have the connections.And it has that certain appeal of the 80's movie, the music, the clothes they wear. So it can be a good nostalgia movie for those who love the 80's.