I, Tonya
I, Tonya
R | 08 December 2017 (USA)
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Competitive ice skater Tonya Harding rises amongst the ranks at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, but her future in the sport is thrown into doubt when her ex-husband intervenes.

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yun

Some i loved and some i felt could've been cut out or made shorter. execution-wise that was like an 8/10 (because it was so long) but i love the story. it has that feeling of a story brought to justice.

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pussycat963

I really did not enjoy this at all. It seemed it wanted to be a dramatic biopic but ended up more mockumentary than anything else. The individuals were portrayed as cartoonish versions that just didn't ring true for me. I thought Margot Robbie overacted all the way through and Alison Janney seemed to be going for an over the top caricature. I am baffled by the high scores in the other reviews.

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grantss

The life story of Tonya Harding, champion ice-skater. From her life as a young child to teenager to adult life everything centred on ice-skating. Then came the Nancy Kerrigan incident...Great movie. Could have easily been a fairly dry paint-by-numbers biopic but writer Steven Rogers and director Craig Gillespie infuse the movie with humour and lightness giving it a great deal of energy and engagement. There's also a character-based side to it, especially in terms of how Harding's mother shapes her personality and views on life. This leads her to accept the abusive, dysfunctional relationship with Jeff Gillooly, her first husband, which brings about her downfall.The light tone does change from a point, and it is a bit disconcerting. As things get more criminal, the lightness is replaced by a seriousness and the movie starts to resemble more the conventional biopic one would have expected. There is still a degree of humour: the bodyguard and the hired thugs take stupidity to another level (and, by the looks of things, this wasn't dramatized - they were really that dumb). However, the come-down from the energy and comedy of the first half does make for an uneasy transition. There was no way round it though - it would have been inappropriate to maintain the level of frivolity considering what happens.Ultimately the transition works out well, as the movie ends very emotionally.Superb performances by Margot Robbie as Tonya Harding and Allison Janney as her mother. Robbie would not have seemed the right person to play an uneducated, working class, incredibly intense, foul-mouthed competitor with hordes of demons but she pulls it off with aplomb. Well deserved her Best Actress Oscar nomination.Allison Janney won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance and the choice is hard to fault. She is fantastic as the aggressive, uncouth mother.

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Andres-Camara

Es una película que llega a emocionar en cuanto a que ella llega a conseguir mucho viniendo de donde viene, incluso llegas a olvidarte de lo mala persona que pudo ser. Creo que es un poco larga, pero se ve muy bien. La película la levantan los actores, incluso aunque hablen a cámara, lo cual es lo peor de toda la película junto a su peluquería. Están todos tan estupendos que te meten completamente en la historia. Eso si ella tendría que haber sido más joven, es imposible creerse que tiene la edad que dice tener.El empleo de la cámara lenta, me parece estupendo. Hay que hacerlo en su justa medida y en los momentos exactos y eso lo hace muy bien, aun habiendo mucha, no sobra, está bien puesta.Lo que menos me gusta es la parte falso documental. No me gusta ver a los actores contando lo que ya se cuenta en la película.No me gusta ese deporte y sin embargo me gusta verla haciéndolo. Eso lo consigue, no sé si es que ella sabrá hacerlo o sino es que la doble es espectacular y se parece mucho a ella.La iluminación está bastante bien sin llegar a ser estupenda. Se desmarca de ser una película de bajo presupuesto, pero no llega a ser muy buena.La dirección ha conseguido que empaticemos con una persona, poco humilde, ególatra, mal educada, pero que debía ser muy buena. No aburre, al revés, te lleva y te atrapa. No usa la cámara como debería, ya que podría hacer unos planos espectaculares pero al menos esta bien llevada.Te entretendrás viendo una película bastante decenteIt is a film that gets excited in that she gets to get a lot coming from where it comes from, you even get to forget about the bad person she could be. I think it's a bit long, but it looks very good.The film is raised by the actors, even if they talk to the camera, which is the worst part of the whole movie with their hairdressers. They are all so great that they put you completely in the story. That if she should have been younger, it is impossible to believe that she is as old as she says she is.The use of slow motion, I think it's great. You have to do it in its right measure and in the exact moments and that does it very well, even if there is a lot, it does not spare, it is well set.What I like the least is the fake documentary part. I do not like to see the actors telling what is already told in the film.I do not like that sport and yet I like to see it doing it. That is achieved, I do not know if she will know how to do it or if the double is spectacular and looks a lot like her.The lighting is quite good without becoming great. It stands out from being a low budget movie, but it does not become very good.The management has managed to empathize with a person, not very humble, egotistical, badly educated, but that should be very good. Do not bore, on the contrary, it takes you and catches you. It does not use the camera as it should, since it could make some spectacular plans but at least it is well taken.You will entertain yourself watching a pretty decent movie

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