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This film could easily have degenerated into a sensationalist docudrama of Turner's life. Instead, the adapted screenplay displays keen insight into the struggle that comes whit the increasing responsibilities of any fastpaced career. The cleverness of the film comes from this appeal to an audience broader than Tina Turner fans and voyeurs of the rich and famous. It convinces the audience that any one of us could be Tina Turner; one doesn't need to have to be a rock star or have an abusive relationship to understand the complications that a lack of self-esteem can bring...
This film makes a statement by removing the viewers from the seats of the concert audience. The director not only shows us the personal dynamics of Tina and Ike on stage but allows us to see the way their audiences responded to them. The film's camera angle describes Turner's enthusiasm and personal commitment to music by showing us the relations between the performers, the music, the choreography and the audience that we could not appreciate if the performance scenes had been a smaller segment of the movie...
Angela Bassett's performance as Tina Turner was one of the year's finest dramatic performances. The character demanded an more than-20 years evolution in Ms. Turner's life. At the beginning of the movie she portrays the unsophisticated and naive Anaa Mae, who eagerly allows herself to be taken under Ike's wing. As the film progresses, Bassett flawlessly displays Turner's blossoming performances-consciousness and ultimately her development into a self-confident woman who knows her true worth as both a musician and a human being. At different stages in her life, Turner is supposed to look...
...less complex character to portray, but Lawrence Fishburne's performances is no less believable. His dual nature as wife beater taskmaster , and needy husband are clearly conveyed. The irony of their parallel fears--his fear of his wife's success and overarching name recognition and Tina's own trepidation that come with the increasing responsibilities--is cleverly evoked through the acting, the screenplay and the director's choreography of the dialogue...
...sole disappointment is that the movie ends just when Tina Turner's post-transformation career was getting under way. One of the last scenes shows like threatening Tina at gunpoint in the dressing room before a performance. She coolly tells him she is not afraid of him anymore and that he would not have the guts to her. The movie ends with Tina's climactic assertion of her independence from Ike. I found this frustrating because I was left to wonder for myself who Tina Turner developed into after her liberation...