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July 23, 2020 - by Dee S
im amazed at the amount of talent gathered for this biopic—a laundry list of renowned african-american actors, tina turner remaking her own songs for this movie (for angela bassett to lipsync) and even ruth carter making costumes for this movie. and yet i really thought the weakest part of the movie was its script, even though it was based on one of turners autobiographies. i felt the script felt really exaggerated. i remember ike turner condemning this movie, but tina turners even condemned this movie as well, saying that the musical of her life is more accurate than this movie. and, in... read
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it's a fairly unexceptional biopic. angela bassett and laurence fishburne give excellent performances, but they are the only strength of the film. it felt a lot like a discount coal miner's daughter, since tina turner and loretta lynn's lives and careers are very rough parallels. the film just wasn't really engrossing outside of the music. ike comes across as a straight villain, which he probably wasn't given that she stayed with him for 20+ years. there could have been more done to humanize him, since i'm sure there was something that kept her around besides fear. read
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