Review of I, Tonya (2017) by Kevin M — 10 Apr 2018

I hate when they try to make "realistic" bios, i.e. mock documentaries and/or "interviews" that are supposed to be real or feel real, but the actors still "act" and just aren't believable.

And if you are going to play real life people, then get them close to the real people. But here they really just didn't. They played everyone as caricatures. But because they did that, it didn't feel serious and came off as a goofy comedy.

And as a side note, the CGI face on the skater of Margot was too noticeable.

If Real life Tonya had that life as they portrayed, they should have made it more sympathetic. I just didn't feel for her.

Even if the script was workable, which I don't think it was, as I think they should have gone a different direction, the execution was not good, for the reasons stated. Just bad direction. Could also be because they got an Australian to direct a movie about Americans and there is a just a geographical and cultural disconnect that he didn't get.

Just watch interviews with Tonya harding and then watch Margot's "performance" in the film and you can see it's miles apart and you can do that with every single character in the film. Just so far off, which always bothers me.