Written by James M. Tate / 1/11/2018 / No comments / 2017 , 2018 , allison janney , biopic , comedy , drama , margot robbie , new , sport
MUDDYING WATERS IN THE NINETIES-ERA BIOPIC 'I TONYA'
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Year: 2017 limited and 2018 wide |
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Margot Robbie |
Meanwhile, Robbie, partially uglied-up for the role, plays it safe and bland — although, she has more color than her boring male co-lead, who needed a few hundred doses of Eric Roberts' sinister yet vulnerable passion ala STAR 80 (another obvious influence) to keep this sleeping giant awake. Perhaps that's why Janney gets all the praise — in a cesspool of corpses, she's a tad more interesting than the nothingness surrounding her.
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Score: 1/2 |
Instead, each and every scene begins as it ends, chockful of various people giving mockumentary-interview insight, deleting any opportunity that would lead I, TONYA to not only answer a few questions but to, at the very least, answer just one without all the gimmicky distractions: Simply put, this horrendous biopic is a supped-up hot rod driving in mindless circles on a dead end road... Even an intentionally off-beat film needs rhythm — and a destination.
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