Well done but story left me cold

Rating: 7/10 (30 January 2018)

We went along to see this movie mostly because we wanted to see Alison Janney's performance. She doesn't disappoint and her Supporting Actress nominations are well deserved. Margot Robbie also delivers an excellent performance and appears to do most of her own skating in the movie.
The problem with the movie for this viewer was that by the end, I still wasn't any the wiser about Tonya's level of prior knowledge or involvement in the planning of the attack on fellow skater, Nancy Kerrigan, but actually I just didn't care. The attack on Kerrigan was a shocking thing, but she went on to win Olympic silver. At the end of the movie, I didn't care about who knew what and who was involved or about Tonya's upbringing and abusive husband. The whole thing left me indifferent.
I do think it's a shame that Tonya Harding is getting renewed attention and publicity with the release of the movie. There are thousands of people with more interesting stories out there waiting to be told on the big screen.