Aaliyah made a permanent mark on the R & B and Hip-Hop music culture and its fans. This documentary film, without music, is a tribute to her and the years of joy that she brought to millions of people all over the wor... more »ld. Her albums, movies, videos, conc« less
Pamela R. from ROCHESTER, NY Reviewed on 3/23/2010...
States 60 minutes, at 53 credits started to roll. Poor quality, poor narration, very little about Aaliyah, more about individuals that pretend to know of her, just to appear on camera. The opening was eerie and the guy who was anonymous was for good reason. I love Aaliyah, truly disappointed with this Thumbs down.
Movie Reviews
Losing Aaliyah
Laurie A. Carroll | Philadelphia, Pa. United States | 11/28/2001
(1 out of 5 stars)
"I am a big fan of Aaliyah and this is a poor video prepared by folks who evidently don't share the same opinion of her. First of all, the video looks like a home video, certainly not of a professional quality. Its definitely not worth the money. Secondly, the narrator stated that the name of Aaliyah's first single on her self-titled album was Revolution. (It's "We Need A Resolution")I found this offensive. There were several mistakes like this. They solicited people on the street who obviously were not fans or who were not familar with her. If the video was $5.00, you could waste your money. Obviously, the makers of this are trying to make money off the grief of Aaliyah's fans, so I don't recommend that you buy. Aaliyah's continues to have a hugh fan base who will spend money to have something to which to remember her. I would not make the makers rich off of this video."
This is SOOOO low budget and ridiculous!
D. Connally | Aurora, Colorado United States | 12/17/2001
(1 out of 5 stars)
"Words cannot express the anger I felt as I watched this ridiculous, low-budget excuse for a tribute video. There is NO redeeming quality to this video...PERIOD! The people who made this should feel ashamed, and embarrassed. In addition, the people who they interviewed should feel embarrassed as well. They picked the most ignorant people. People who weren't even familiar with Aaliyah's work. The narrator even mis-titled Aaliyah's first single from her new album as "Revolution." In addition to this, he stated that her new upcoming movie was to be "Misstress of the Damned"! This video was appalling and outraging. I was upset that I have viewed it and I will NEVER speak of it again."
Not worth the money
Katherine | Trenton, New Jersey United States | 12/10/2001
(1 out of 5 stars)
"I was very disappointed with my purchase. Just as others have said the video is not professional, not put together well at all and the profanity i can't even comment on that. Truth be told this is not a tribute to a beautiful person, it's an insult. Some parts of the video had poor sound as well as picture quality. I can't believe Amazon is standing behind this product and is selling it to their customers just to make a buck. Then they have a no return policy on something as thrashy as this."
IM FURIOUS!!
Miss Melody | Long Beach, CA USA | 10/29/2002
(2 out of 5 stars)
"First I would like to say, I honestly feel that I am Aaliyah's #1 fan or very near to it. I was expecting a lot more. The cover is VERY misleading. First of all, it sounds as if they are calling Aaliyah "Eliyah". They can't even pronounce her name correctly. Then, they play a bunch of music... why not even ONE Aaliyah song? They refer to Damon Dash, her boyfriend of only about ONE year as Damion Dash, her boyfriend of a very long time. They called Queen of the Damned "Mistress of the Damned"!! They said that her first single from her self titled album was called, "Revolution". The name of that song was "We Need A Resolution". She never even had a song called Revolution!! They said her name is Swaheli when it is ARABIC!! The so called "fans" they interviewed were mostly air heads that were smiling not knowing what they were talking about and you could tell they really didnt know much about Aaliyah, they were just camera happy! No interviews with Anyone who truly knew her and no real biographical information. I think if some of us REAL fans got together... we could do a 100,000,000 times better job. I cant even find their website. I want to complain!! Shame on them just trying to make money off her death! The only reason that I even gave it 2 stars is because it showed some of her funeral and the plain crash site... and that really affected me.. other than that... TERRIBLE!!"
DVD
Jennifer Zepeda | APO, AE United States | 12/28/2002
(1 out of 5 stars)
"I absolutely love Aaliyah just like many of you out there but I found this DVD to be a waste of money. This DVD is how others view her life and death. There are a few pictures of Aaliyah on this DVD but hardly."