Some time, about 25 years ago, my mom said “Hey Brandon have you ever seen that movie “The Cutting Edge”? I think you’d really like it.”
I got around to watching it today.
There are a lot of things I don’t mind in a flick. Seemingly low budget-ness, not one actor I’ve heard of (that I knew the name of going in I mean), cheesy acting, lame or predictable writing, post-80s-esque soundtrack, and a bit of a fish-out-of-water concept. This movie has all of it and more. I haven’t watched a movie quite like this in some time and I want to stress that it was not a terrible film. There is chemistry between these two leads that I’ve never heard of or seen, nor will I ever see them again, at least that’s my bet.
To be clear, this is a fairly watchable film. It’s just not a particularly great or impactful one in my humblest of opinions. You take the concept: a guy gets an eye injury as a hockey player that I guess ends his career in hockey but it still somehow allows him to figure skate. He joins up with a woman who ditched her old partner and settles for the hockey player and she eventually breaks up with her fiancé not because he’s a bad guy but because the two leads have to end up together and win their competition and that’s that.
There are a lot of montages (at least it seemed like it) complete with those 80s style backing tracks I mentioned. They do their little “we’ve gotta work on getting good enough for the big figure skating event that will be the centerpiece of the end of this film/wrestle with our feelings for each other that we just can’t deny/don’t forget a couple of concerning acts by either main character that serves as a detriment to those main plotlines/then decide they love each other in the end”. And it’s all well and good, but it just feels so fucking basic to me.
Maybe if I would’ve watched it back in the 90s when I could’ve had a better lens through which to view it like my mom suggested, I would’ve liked it more. But now, maybe I’m too jaded about movies to see this as something terrific. I fear I may be getting that way too much nowadays. So I won’t rate this too poorly because I don’t think it’d be fair.
I would call this watchable, but don’t pay to see it, certainly don’t pay to buy it.
“Don't say we are not right for each other, for the way I see it we might not be right for anybody else.”
