the audience applauded

Pretty Good

The acting in this movie is really good.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

It's 1990 on Madonna's Blond Ambition Tour. She, her circle of dancers, and performers travel from Japan to North America and all around the world. It has behind-the-scenes as well as her concert performances. There are her friends and family. Her brother is hanging around and she goes to her mother's grave. In Toronto, the cops threaten to charge her for indecency. It's mostly filmed in black and white. The thing about Madonna is one is never sure about when the performance starts and ends. I doubt she's completely faking anything but she can be overly dramatic. When cops show up in Toronto, they do imply a threat but one can see a glint in her eyes where she sees an opportunity to rally around the first amendment. There is the dancer faux boyfriend and a girl claiming rape. One can never be sure about anything with Madonna.

I watched this movie for the first time in 2009, almost twenty years after its release and this proves I am not a big Madonna fan. In fact, I never particularly liked or disliked her. I thought she was "cool" in "Desperately seeking Susan", but that was the "Into the Groove" time, when she had just started her rise.The "Blonde Ambition" tour was probably the top of Madonna's career, and this would-be documentary shows her at her most unbearable. Somebody mentioned that it shines a light on her "human" side (as if she was some sort of alien), but in truth she comes across as a controlling, pretentious bitch who goes out of her way to humiliate and annoy people. Hardly the best human side one can show. Even the visit to her mother's grave is disgustingly theatrical. Instead of making you feel sorry for the child of five who lost her mum it makes you feel sorry for the spoiled brat she became.Of course we all know that Madonna built her career on sex and the Catholic religion and by now I doubt anybody would be shocked by her swinging crucifix or her masturbation. However, tasteful it was not... and still isn't. The part filmed on stage is disappointing because some of songs performed are just not good, no matter how much sex is thrown in to spice them. The "documentary" part is embarrassing to watch. It was interesting for me to see that Madonna had a crush on Antonio Banderas, but at the time he was married with a pretty Spanish lady (who looked a lot better both of Madonna and Melanie Griffith). Warren Beatty makes the only decent comment about the whole filming, but he is also brushed off and humiliated, not to mention the poor Costner.I am not a Costner fan either, but his comment sounded rather sarcastic to me ("Neat" applied to the overbearing and vulgar show sounds like a sarcastic way to say "It sucked"), but looks like Madonna did not get the joke. She definitely takes herself very seriously when she describes herself as an "artist" who will not change anything in her show, even if she risks to get arrested for "indecent exposure" or any such like - very unlikely - charge.Finally, when she talks to her father she is so arrogant and dismissive that I felt sorry for the poor guy. She even uses the word "chatartic" with the intent of confuse her father; but looks like she herself had no clue as to what that word means.Madonna was an icon of the 80's and early 90's and possibly a decent singer, but for sure she was never a great actress and definitely not somebody with any sense of humor.

the Blond Ambition tour was never officially released, The documentary of Truth or Dare was the only way fans could have a piece of the tour on DVD. Madonna's documentary covers all her personal and private issues. while dealing with boyfriend issues with Warren Beatty to traveling all over the world with dancers she temporarily claimed as her own, To speeches at the Vatican in Rome to having legal issues in Toronto, this is real Madonna at her campiest best. this is the documentary of all documentary's. Madonna proves to be a true business woman and Icon.this is a must for anyone who loves Madonna or anyone that enjoys good music and a great show!Anthony V Jr

Maddy is at her sexiest and loveliest when she's HA HERSELF! The ultimate bad girl documentary showcases her behind the scenes on her huge mind-blowing BLOND AMBITION TOUR of 1990.It's very compelling - her relationships with the people who work for her, in particular the dancers. She goes from at one moment being "one" of them to "mothering" them to ultimately, being their employer... and a shoot straight from the hip one at that. Her encounters with Sandra Bernhard, Warren Beatty, and Kevin Costner are no where near as compelling as her partying with her dancers. Rumour is, in the party scene where she first me Antonio Banderas--females on her staff were not allowed to wear makeup or do their hair when they went--this is evident when you see Niki Haris and Donna DeLory--her two background singers. The concert footage is beautifully shot. What's of interest is that some of her dancers were doing massive drugs on this tour but that was somewhere left out of the footage. All in all: FLAWLESS!