Lance

I suspect that Armstrong hoped that this video would help rehabilitate his reputation, but his performance does him no favors. His petulance and self-absorption are on full display. With his deep pockets and his ready access to media, Armstrong tried to ruin the lives of people who he knew were telling the truth; yet he is more concerned in this video with what he imagines to be the world's unfair treatment of him.

Lance - a two part documentary about the rise and fall of seven time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong. I didn't get into cycling until after Armstrong's reign as TDF winner and his infamous confession about doping on the Oprah Wimphrey show. Now - after spending over 3 hours in his company, I don't like the guy. It feels to me as if he's trying to deflect blame for his actions. To allow himself a new career (which is already happening as a cycling commentator on US radio. It feels like that - in his eyes - it is his road to redemption. I didn't know how to articulate how I felt about him until, towards the end of this often compelling doc his former team mate said "there are good people who do bad things, and there are bad people who do good things" and let's the viewer decide which category Lance belongs. My view is that he is a bad person who does bad things and I have zero sympathy for his demise. Yes - I'm sure there are reasons for his 'badness' - such as his tough paternal upbringing - but reasons are not excuses. I hope LA is not welcomed back to the public fray - he's all in it for himself, as I'm sure he's always been. A really interesting watch - 7.5 out of ten

Single minded , arrogant and selfish !! Along with a talent . Problem is that only winning mattered and winning anyway possible!! It's always the others not me attitude!! It's a very interesting film but it's the same as all these type of people. It's a shame because he was a fantastic talent and didn't see that as enough! Not sure if there was much point to this film ! You do hope that he can put his demons to rest !!

Jeez what a resentful odious creature. The fire in his belly is slowly consuming him. I am so glad he found sports instead of killing small animals as a child, or the world might have had to endure a completely different type of suffering. 10 years later, and a world set on fire since the last set if epics on all if Armstrong's transgressions, and this presents with a littke distance perhaps a more complex portrait of personal ambition in a sport that only seemed to catch on as a result of Lemond and then Armstrong. The most interesting quote in this two parter comes from a former team manager who when talking about Americans involvement in cycling that American sports are Football and Basketball, Anericans that go into cycling don't fit in(as in they are oddballs in their own culture). And yet Armstrong did nothing if not adapt an American competitive approach-win at all costs whether or not you destroy that which you set out to conquer. The family annihilator model of if I can't have it, I will amke damn sure no one else can.

Well anyway, Lance has been to therapy, seen the effects of his consequences meted out on his family, gotten the best coaching, legal and business advice power and influence and money can buy, and he's still desperate to settle scores, although he was nice enough to apologize to Emma the Soignier. It'll be fun in a new way to hear Christian V comment occasionally about Armstrong's alt Tour de France exploits during NBC's race broadcast.

Does the world really need yet another documentary about disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong? This series is very thorough, and benefits from an unusual frankness from its protagonist. Clearly, Armstrong is, while admitting to his crimes, trying to build the case for his partial rehabilitation; but he seems more honest here than previously, if not necessarily more likeable. He clearly carries resentment that other dopers have been treated less harshly than him; but he was the boss of the peloton, a rich man and a bully with it, who denied everything as aggressively as possible for as long as possible, and there's simply no way sociery could, or should, have given him a free pass. If Lance will now foreover be the poster child for sports doping, he made it so. Armstrong's story is still both an amazing and terrible one, and it's retold here well; he remains an intriguing figure, albeit not a nice one.