Tonya Harding's sweet revenge

Rating: 7/10 (1 March 2018)

I am glad this film got made. I always smelled a rat in the media coverage of the Kerrigan/ Harding spat in 1994. Kerrigan was not so sweet and Harding not so nasty. Margot Robbie does a fair job as Harding and the staging of the big incident is well carried out. The film is ultimately not as powerful as it could be, as Robbie is too good looking, too magnificent looking. Harding was small, tough and put upon - we do not get that sense from seeing Robbie on screen. Also the mockumentary style falls flat in parts as the jokes are not funny enough; the cutesy girl/ dainty mum being foul mouthed is overused and never really as funny as the film thinks it is. The dialogue often meanders and is only pulled together by the use of the 70s early 80s rock tracks. Still very glad this film got made. Go girl, Tonya.