What's Love Got To Do With It?
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Movie Reviews of What's Love Got To Do With It?
Movie Review: Bassett and Fishbourne in a riveting tour de force
Summary: 4 Stars
Adapted from pop-rock-blues dynamo Tina Turner's autobiographical "I, Tina" and bearing the same title as the solo smash that sent her solo career through the stratosphere, "What's Love Got to Do With It" features Angela Bassett and Laurence Fishbourne in astounding performances that garnered both lead acting Oscar nominations. The film takes us from Tina and husband Ike Turner's beginnings as a struggling singing duo in the 1950's and through the disintegration of their marriage to drug and domestic abuse and Tina's ultimate triumph of coming into her own both as a person and astronomical singing talent. Bassett is nothing less than a force of nature as the professionally and physically battered Tina who progressively finds the anger and self-respect to put an end to husband Ike's total domination of her. Fishburne is no less overpowering as bad guy Ike, and Fishburne's convincing portrayal of Ike's gradual decent into drug oblivion and increasing violence against his wife is devastating. Together, he and Bassett manage to make us feel the violence and desperation of two people clearly headed for total ruin. The film's numerous episodes of spousal battery are explicit, and we can't help but wonder how much suffering other couples endure in private. For Ike and Tina, their suffering (especially Tina's) was laid out on the public stage. So convincing are Bassett and Fishburne that we actually pain for the real lady and thirst for revenge against the real man, and their ability to evoke those emotions is a tribute to both Bassett's and Fishburne's talents. When Tina finally delves deeply enough inside herself to raise up and cry enough to the violence, we have both a sense of admiration for the lady's courage and the security of knowning that this lady will be okay. The latter is validated in the final scene when Tina takes to the stage as a solo artist. And, as they say, the rest is history. Director Brian Gibson gives us a riveting production, and Bassett and Fishburne are numbing in their respective roles as victim and victimizer. "What's Love Got to Do With It" is a bravado film on two counts: we get to feel the desperation and eventual redemption of someone as a victim of violence, and we get a magnificent sense of respect for the real woman whose life this film is.Movie Review: WELL DONE TINA AND IKE.
Summary: 5 Stars
MAN WHAT CANT U SAY BOUT THIS MOVIE. IT WAS EVERYTING. THE ONLY THING I DIDNT LIKE BOUT THE MOVIE WAS HOW THE MAMMY ACTED. IF SHE WAS A REAL MOTHER THEN SHE WOULDNT OF TOLD IKE WHERE SHE WAS EVERY TIME SHE TRIED TO LEAVE. TINA WAS CRAZY CUS ALL THEY HAVE TO DO IS OUT THEIR HANDS ON ME ONE TIME AND IM GONE. I CNAT BELIEVE SHE PUT UP WITH HIS MESS. TO ME IT AINT THAT MUCH LOVE IN THE WORLD.IF THEY PUT THEIR HANDS ON U ONCE THEN THEIR GONNA DO IT AGAIN. IF U HAVENT SEEN THIS MOVIE THEN U SHOULD GO AND SEE IT.Movie Review: unbelievable
Summary: 1 Stars
this movie was such a load of garbage, i can't believe so many people liked it. i happened to see the first 20 minutes or so on some cable channel and i thought it was just another washed-up no-name made-for-TV movie. weak and cliche acting, ridiculously paced, obviously striving for all kinds of things it can't achieve.....unbelievable that people call this "award worthy". a weak hollywood "music" movie trying to be emotional and stirring and just turning out cliche'd and predictable like all the others.Movie Review: This movie was entertaining.........NOT
Summary: 1 Stars
...Read the book first, then watch the movie, then look at [Tina's] present life. this movie was hysterically entertaining, I laughed through half the scenes the fight scenes were as almost as good as the Rocky series. Fisburne and Bassett were great in their roles and acted their faces off.But the movie played up themes that were lies at best slander toward Ike Turner. Tina was no innocent in that marriage, she had a kid from the drummer in his band that the movie ignores and so many lies to play off the fact that he was more abusive than he actually was making him the second coming of Ted Bundy than a fully fleshed person, add to the fact she has only seen him twice in the past 30 years and the scene with the gun at the end and playing her off as a loving mother to her sons when she all but abandoned them to Ike and moved to Europe and got over and became a multi- millionare and married her white saviour. Black folks who gave this movie a five - star review ,Tina is no longer the black female icon you admire but a liar a person who played on your pity, like O.J. Simpson she is no longer black but colorless and she has said that in many interviews to that effect. And most of you are gonna think i approve of domestic violence but I DO NOT, but read the book first, look at her behaviour the last 30 years towards her black audience and judge for yourselves.Movie Review: Intense and Extremely Well Performed
Summary: 4 Stars
Celebrity bio-pics are very hit or miss, but once in a great while a really good one comes along--and WHAT'S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT is one of them. Based on the autobiography of Tina Turner, the film offers a glossy but intense portrait of her rapid rise to stardom under the sponsorship of husband-manager Ike Turner--a relationship that quickly turned dark and became increasingly abusive as Tina's fame began to outstrip Ike's own.Although the film is a bit on the obvious side, it is well-crafted and the two leads offer powerhouse performances. Angela Bassett is simply astonishing as Tina Turner; where most other actresses might have simply imitated, Bassett accomplishes the impossible: she makes you believe that she is Tina Turner, capturing both Tina's famous on-stage performing style (the concert scenes are really exciting) and giving a completely believable interpretation of her off-stage personality as well. The script offers Laurence Fishburne little more than a one-dimensional role, but he plays it brilliantly from start to finish, and both are well supported by the overall cast.
There is certainly a great deal more to the lives of both Ike and Tina Turner than this film conveys--but what it does show it presents with considerable power and conviction, and by the time Tina finally hits back at Ike you'll be roaring for her to hit him again--and again--and again--and eager to see her finally triumph entirely on her own. Recommended.