What's Love Got To Do With It? | Angela Bassett, Rae'Ven Larrymore Kelly

What's Love Got To Do With It? | Angela Bassett, Rae'Ven Larrymore Kelly | "Is that your best shot Ike" (Limo scene)

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	What's Love Got To Do With It? Angela Bassett, Rae'Ven Larrymore Kelly Walt Disney Video, 1996 average customer review:based on 74 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Two Red-Hot Blazing Performances Bring Fire, Glory and Nuance to Tina Turner's Story

It was gratifying to see rock legend Tina Turner earn the coveted Kennedy Center honor last month, certainly reason enough to revisit this wonderful biopic based on her 1987 self-affirming autobiography, "I, Tina" co-written with Rolling Stone editor Kurt Loder. Directed by the late Brian Gibson in an appropriately feverish manner, the 1993 movie still burns brightly thanks to the electrifying performances of Angela Bassett and Laurence Fishburne. There have been several fine performances in biopics of late - Jamie Foxx in "Ray", Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon in "Walk the Line" - but I still feel Bassett and Fishburne maintain the high watermark as they seem to inhabit the roles of Ike and Tina completely in this film.

Adapting probably the most melodramatic parts of Tina's book, Gibson and screenwriter Kate Lanier built a dramatic framework about the former Anna Mae Bullock that is somewhat standard-issue and probably biased, but it works on a visceral level as a story of personal triumph punctuated by some of the most gut-wrenching scenes of domestic violence captured on film. Playing one of the most recognizable and enduring celebrities in the rock world, Bassett manages to capture the physical mannerisms, vocal patterns, and onstage energy of the real Tina, even though her voice obviously had to be dubbed. With her almost distracting musculature, she convincingly rips into all her musical performances with unabated fire, but it's really in her dramatic scenes, especially when she becomes an increasingly degraded victim of her husband's demons, that she soars. Fishburne has an extremely tough role, as he has to transcend the inherent villainy of Ike by displaying the bravado and talent that brought the pair the spotlight in the early years. He brilliantly manages to imbue a spirit that is at once frightening and pitiable.

With a relatively sparse filmography, Gibson provides surprisingly sturdy direction here, often using an effective faux-combination of grainy home movies and TV programs to make the movie feel like a "Behind the Scenes" rock documentary. I particularly liked how he edited the inevitable "Proud Mary" - complete with gyrating Ikettes and Tina in her classic cavewoman mini - to show the passage of time between the late sixties to the mid-seventies. Unsurprisingly, no one else makes nearly the impression of the two stars, though Jenifer Lewis has a few funny moments as Tina's mother Zelma, and Vanessa Bell Calloway does what she can in her switch from hard-bitten back-up singer to becalming Buddhist. Regardless, see it for two actors - sadly underutilized since this movie was released, the wondrous Bassett in particular - giving all they have into this memorable movie. The DVD has no significant extras other than the original trailer.

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"Is that your best shot Ike" (Limo scene)

Man, everytime I see this movie it gets me moving. I have seen this movie so many times and it stills get to me.
Angela Bassett, as Tina, and Laurence Fishburne, as Ike are both great in this film. Ms. Bassett plays Tina with all the charm and sex appeal of the real life Tina Turner. Laurence Fishburne gave a amazing and effective performance as Ike, at once both repellent and charismatic. This movie focuses on their relationship to the Tina Turner we know today.
Tina naturally took the lead musically in their Ike and Tina Turner Revue once the mike was handed to her. This became clear that Tina was the one for which the fans were clamoring, Ike did not take lightly to being second fiddle, and their relationship became disoriented and abuse, with Ike easing into the role of abusive husband with ease.
The movie moves on by Tina finally having enough, she divorced Ike, taking nothing from the marriage except her children and her show business name, the name she earned. From there, she went on to rebuild her life and career, becoming the world renowned rock and roll diva she is today. Ike, a substance abuser, ended up in prison for narcotics possession and fell into relative obscurity, little more than a footnote in rock and roll history. This is a film well worth watching.She is truly a strong woman.

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Great Movie

I rented this movie before but thought it was so good I wanted to own it. Angela Bisset did a wonderful portral of Tina Turner. I would recoment this movie to anyone.

A really good movie

This a good movie. It's one of my favorites because I'm a Ike and Tina Turner fan. When I used to watch the movie when I was younger it used to scare me to see the abuse,but now it doesn't. It makes me stop and think that this really happened to Tina. Angela Basset and Lawerence Fishburn did a good job in the movie. And Angela was good at doing Tina's moves. Anybody that hasn't seen this film should see it. Everytime it comes on I watch it.

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Painfully Honest

This dtory was painfully honest and heart-breaking. It hit all too close to home. The abuse, the jealousy, the violence, the drinking, the drugs, the women were all scenes replayed from my life. After all that's said and done comes the apolgy and the declaration of love. Like Tina, I have to ask, "What's Love Got to do With it?"

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