Powerful

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Don't listen to the negative reviews

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

This was an outstanding documentary. Clearly everyone around Amy watched her go down slowly. Such a tragedy.

I was initially daunted by the 120 minute running time of this film, but I was glued from beginning to end and felt as if I had been watching it for about half that time. I have never seen anything like this before. It was like watching Breaking Glass with Hazel O'Connor or Stardust with David Essex, but they were fictitious stories acted out for entertainment, and this was real people with a real star and yet such a familiar rags-to-riches story with a tragic ending. And because the story is the stuff of 'rock star' urban legends, you think that someone is going to step in to prevent the inevitable, and yet that never happens.I say that the people in this film are real, but that is not entirely the case, because it has been skillfully edited to present villains and good guys: those who are motivated by money, fame or drugs; and those, like Amy herself, who are driven by love. I don't think that you are supposed to believe these caricatures, this is just the film-maker's view of Amy's story, and I am sure that every single person involved would tell a different tale from the one we are presented with in this film. And for me, that is what makes it extraordinary, because although it is a documentary that presents a gripping true story played out by real people in real life, it is predominantly an art-form giving one person's perspective just like a novel or a painting does.I would just like to add that I am an Iron Maiden fan who has never listened to Amy Winehouse in my life. She had a amazing voice, but her style was not to my taste. That does not in any way detract from the brilliance of the film or, indeed, Amy herself.

The film is obviously about Amy Winehouse, who has a tough life with ups, but many downs. She's a great singer and gets a lot of recognition for it. But she gets into drugs and alcohol because of Blake and actually gets addicted. She sadly ends up dying because her body couldn't take it anymore.

Amy was the real deal. And so is this doc. Friends, family and colleagues are interviewed, they aren't shown talking at all and it works. There is no narration, but her lyrics tell the story of her rise and heartbreaking fall. Her knockout voice and songs were the key and her lyrics makes you realize they always were. Watching her fall apart on screen is like a train wreck. As she becomes richer and richer and more and more famous, it becomes comes clear that she wasn't equipped to cope and that was where her fall begins. The doc moves from cell phone footage and TV performance to the paparazzi mobs and it becomes clear Amy was cursed with an array of dysfunctional behaviors that would com-bust into self-destructionYou'll pretty much want to watch more of Amy nonstop. There's no spoiler alert needed here because we all know how this one ends, and losing her again made it all the more hard to watch, but the doc ends on a high note, with her duet with her idol Tony Bennett. What a waste.