Overview
Competitive ice skater Tonya Harding rises amongst the ranks at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, but her future in the activity is thrown into doubt when her ex-husband intervenes.
I am baffled that this film happened in the first place, which is a credit to the people that made it. After all you take a whole pile of really crappy people and have them do an awful thing to an unsuspecting person…. and then you make a film about it?
For the first 45 minutes I was a little unsure about the film but then it started to come together for me. The following helped:
- Nobody is painted in a good light here
- It is a dark comedy
- At some point you feel bad for most of the characters (which is a testament to how awful the other characters are)
- At no point does it take itself too seriously
- It does not pretend to tell you what actually happened
- At times it breaks down the fourth wall
The following did not help:
- They dressed up Margo Robbie to look like Harding. Very, very distracting.
I don’t know that this story needed to be told (and truthfully, I don’t really know that it actually was told). All in all they did an amazing job telling the story of a very said lot.
IHATEBadMovies.com reviews I, Tonya
Movie title: I, Tonya
Movie description: Competitive ice skater Tonya Harding rises amongst the ranks at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, but her future in the activity is thrown into doubt when her ex-husband intervenes.
Date published: 2018-03-04
Director(s): Craig Gillespie
Actor(s): Margot Robbie, Sebastian Stan, Allison Janney, Julianne Nicholson, Paul Walter Hauser, Bobby Cannavale, Bojana Novaković, Caitlin Carver, Maizie Smith, Mckenna Grace, Suehyla El-Attar, Jason Davis, Cory Chapman, Amy Fox, Cara Mantella, Joshua Mikel, Lynne Ashe, Steve Wedan, Anthony Reynolds, Ricky Russert, Miles Mussenden, Dan Triandiflou, Alphie Hyorth, Cassidy Balkcom, Fi Dieter
Genre: Drama
My Review
I am baffled that this film happened in the first place, which is a credit to the people that made it. After all you take a whole pile of really crappy people and have them do an awful thing to an unsuspecting person…. and then you make a film about it?
For the first 45 minutes I was a little unsure about the film but then it started to come together for me. The following helped:
- Nobody is painted in a good light here
- It is a dark comedy
- At some point you feel bad for most of the characters (which is a testament to how awful the other characters are)
- At no point does it take itself too seriously
- It does not pretend to tell you what actually happened
- At times it breaks down the fourth wall
The following did not help:
- They dressed up Margo Robbie to look like Harding. Very, very distracting.
I don’t know that this story needed to be told (and truthfully, I don’t really know that it actually was told). All in all they did an amazing job telling the story of a very said lot.
-
My Review - 8/10
8/10