I gave it a 7.5 out of 10

This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

How very entertaining documentary. I love it. In show business,you have to be tough,other wise you gone. We all struggle in every day living,not only famous people. Such a beautiful voice and it wasted,what a shame...

A documentary film about the life of renowned singer and actress Whitney Houston, the only one to have been filmed with the consent of her family and estate administrator. It's not long ago that one of the greatest history singers who sold nearly 200 million albums died unexpectedly in the hotel room in 2012, the day before the Grammy Awards. Despite the publicly known drug problems, many people then questioned how it was possible that her life was so tragically ending. A new film by award-winning director Kevin Macdonald seeks answers to these questions. Thanks to an exclusive approach to the family archive, the family and the closest collaborators of the singer uncover connections that end up giving the viewer a much more complex picture of the life of the singer in the context of her time. In personal interviews, we learn about previously unknown facts that blend in partially unpublished pictorial material from Whitney's life. It turns out, for example, that Whitney did not bring her husband to the drugs, but came into contact with them much earlier in puberty than her brothers. Her former husband, Bobby Brown, even refuses in the interview that drugs could be related to his wife's death. Her own father, as the accountant of a family 'money machine', robbed her of her earnings, and after he had terminated her co-operation, he was judging her about the $ 100 million she claimed as a reward. The most serious suspicion we learn about two-thirds of the film from a personal assistant singer that Whitney was to be sexually abused by her 18-year-old cousin Dee Dee Warwick (she died in 2008). Whitney's inherent brother personally claims that DD Warwick was a child, apparently at a time when their mother was traveling on a tour (she was accompanying singer Areta Franklin and Elvis Presley), and the five foster families cared for the children. Mother was to learn about the abuse when shooting the film, and the director himself was told two weeks before the filming ended, which completely changed the final form of the film. The film contains many other details and emotional content. Despite of recalling tragical events, the film pays careful tribute to the artist who still holds the record of seven first titles in the American chart.

This movie does not even begin to see the greatness and influence of Whitney Houston on music and female vocalists. Poorly edited, the movie does not really know where it's going. You have to have lived in the 80's to really understand WH's mystique. There are so much existing footage of Whitney singing live at awards show with a greatness and quality that very few vocalists can achieve. She was named the VOICE.. not for nothing. I really hope someone who REALLY loves her and truly appreciated her talents and beauty could make a film on her so that future generations can really understand her place in history and pop music. I will be waiting as it is NOT the one!!!!

Just kidding!This is quite good, better than your average Behind the Music episode due to the access to the interviewees and how much they opened up - McDonald is also solid as an interviewer and makes sure to ask follow up questions much as possible - and there are many candid home video clips of Houston that add to the subject matter (the best being a bit where she decries Paula Abdul but not before her mother Cissy shittalks Janet Jackson).McDonald and his editors take pop culture and politics and make damn sure through montage to compare and contrast in literally smashing pieces together that Houston's music couldn't be disentangled from the times they were in. How she became so monumentally successful? What was the world she was in? Somehow only she could pull off the Star Spangled Banner as a black woman to such a way everyone else since aspires to that.Downsides: it has the predictable arc due to knowing a pop stars history, but the tragedy here is that there were so many who were there for Whitney and she succumbed to her addictions.