A BIOPIC FOR OUR TIMES...!

Rating: 7/10 (28 March 2019)

Finally watched the rise & fall of Tonya Harding which won an Oscar for Allison Janney for Best Supporting Actress for 2017 & nabbing a Best Actress nod for Margot Robie. Centering & culminating on the infamous Nancy Kerrigan kneecapping incident, Tonya Harding is presented as a working class woman pushed into ice skating by an overbearing mother where she succeeded but since she came from desperate straits she never garnered the same kind of attention her more polished competitors received. Even marrying a milquetoasty, abusive husband kept Tonya in a perpetual cycle of ridicule, shortcomings & unmet expectations. When a plan is hatched to torment Kerrigan via abusive mailings, her idiotic bodyguard hatches a scheme to hire a couple of brain dead thugs to intimidate her resulting in a kneecap shot heard & seen around the world. Not don't get me wrong, the film is a funny, sad & heartfelt exploration of dumb people doing dumb things but in skewering these knuckleheads, it feels a bit like shooting fish in a barrel making this cinematic attack feel a bit obvious & off putting but if you can stomach this & be a bit numb about the whole thing, you'll enjoy yourself.