Hello Destroyer
A young hockey player deals with the consequences of hockey violence after he critically injures another player during a game.
26 June 1964, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
14 October 1972, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
22 January 1956, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
14 July 1987, Gander, Newfoundland, Canada
26 July 1975, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
March 10, 2017
The tragic cliché of the heroic hockey enforcer is explored with art and impact in this powerful feature debut by Vancouver writer/director Kevan Funk.
May 09, 2017
Terse and devastating.
May 09, 2017
Flin Flon-born actor Abrahamson nails it. He may not have many lines, but he also never has a false moment. He breaks your heart with a macho stoicism that ultimately cannot withstand a relentless assault of callous indifference.
June 15, 2017
Director Kevan Funk presents an occasionally powerful, if slow-moving and overlong meditation on violence and toxic masculinity.
March 10, 2017
This isn't a traditional hockey film. In a sense, it's not a hockey film at all. Hello Destroyer shoots for more: A story of alienation, and of youth rudely interrupted and lost in the machine.
March 08, 2017
Writer/director Funk's first feature after a series of solid shorts -- including 2013's Destroyer, which contained the seeds of this film -- is a strong debut, if a little heavy-handed.
July 05, 2017
Hello Destroyer is a hockey movie where the drama is not in the game, but in how its violence has consequences that ripple off the ice.
September 28, 2017
[Hello Destroyer] is constructed sturdily enough to stand up to any forthcoming scrutiny, and maybe also built to last in a way that most feature debuts simply are not.
