Documentaries are always a dangerous weapon in
the hands of a skillful director and this fact hadn’t missed the Canadian
attempt to make a story behind the rise and fall of the last Soviet hockey team
before the collapse of the Union.
Fetisov, Karpov, Kasatonov, Krutov. The mighty
Four that terrorized the world on ice for almost a decade isn’t just a classic
sport story and the makers of ”Red Army” wanted us to show the dark secret
behind their success, the back side of communism and the controversy that
followed with the departure of the Mighty Four in NHL. This was done in a poor,
maniristic and propaganda kind of way, often highlighted by the persistently
strict responses by Slava Fetisov himself.
Instead of educating ourselves, ”Red Army” tried
to remind us how we were lucky not living in communism and it miserably failed
to do so, making it a poor documentary.
