Madonna: Rebel Heart Tour

This is not so much a concert-film as it is a set of music videos created from a particular concert tour. There are many cuts including "instant", multiple costume changes during a song (just like a video), overlaid light effects, and so on: a little bit frenetic at times, but very well done.

If you like Madonna videos, you should like it.

I see reviews that condemn the movie because it is not the concert that they saw.

Whenever Madonna hits the road you know you'll be getting a top notch experience. I've been to two concerts of hers and have not seen anything like it. My review has nothing to do with the amazing concert Madonna and her team put together (although I cannot understand why the beautiful "ghosttown" was not added to the setlist).

But it was very disappointing to see how the editing destroyed this experience by using insanely frenetic cuts for reasons that go beyond anything I can understand, it's impossible to appreciate a nice take the way they did it. Plus, the amount of filters and images from the background screens that were mixed with the actual performances turned the experience of watching this very annoying. In a certain moment, they cut from the main dance routine of a song so that images of the background screens can be shown. Awful, distasteful, and almost a crime to the show and the fans who didn't get to see it live. A waste of good material.

Remember when Kevin Costner said that the Blond Ambition Tour was neat?, well, the edition of the Rebel Heart Tour is worse than that. The live experience was incredible, I was there at first row for two nights and I don't have enough words to describe how amazing it was.

When I watched the video edition I was disappointed, It's heavily edited, you can easily get epilepsy attacks if you watch it. you can't see anything at all because they cut the video every second or less. I appear on the recording, for a second, but that wasn't enough for me to enjoy the DVD.

She decided not to include the best parts of the show; "Love Don't Live Here anymore", "Ghosttown", "Who's That Girl" (I actually stopped recording on my phone with this one, and "Take A Bow" is just included in the Japanese version of the release.

She didn't include the full "Tears of a clown" mini concert, and the few minutes included are black and white. I mean, she is dressed as a colorful beautiful clown, yet we don't get to see that. Girl, even the Wizard of Oz had some colors.

she really needs to stop taking all the decisions, and she needs to get rid of Guy Oseary ASAP.

I have attended the Rebel Heart tour and this movie does not represent it at all.

It looks like the director tried make concert into a music video that is supposed to be running in background in some club so people can dance to it.

There are two things fundamentally wrong:

• First is the The "teenage attention span" ADHD editing. The concert footage is heavily mixed with video clips that were running on big screens on stage. Most of the time the sound does not match the picture. You can clearly see Madonna's lips don't sync with the sound. And that's not only because of overly artistic editing. It's also because the sound is not form that visuals:

• Second, the sound is for the most part is not from the concert. It's obviously not live recording which is especially evident by Madonna's vocals. Only some slower songs retain the original vocals.

So this is not a concert video because it does not have concert sound, no atmosphere, you can't watch it as a concert because of the cuts every 1-2 seconds.

Why watch this? If you want to watch music videos you will be better watching Madonna's music videos for songs in album. If you want to watch the show itself you can find much better "pirated" videos from the tour on Youtube.

Overall, if pirated concert videos on Youtube represent the show better than your movie, you've done it wrong.

I attended the show here in San Juan and the whole show is breathtakingly good but when i saw the blu-ray version i was disappointed because there is so many moments that were ruined by placing the screens backdrops in front of what was going on on stage that missed great moments!!! Luv the backdrops BTW!!!