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Rating:  - Not so good
I can't understand why this movie was made, it can't be about the guitar playing genius Jimi Hendrix, they skipped over that. If Jimi Hendrix was a famous clothing designer this movie would have made more sense.
Imagine making a film about Gene Kelly and giving the lead to someone who can't dance, BUT TRIES,........disgraceful. I only hope the people responsible for this film were punished severly, Jimi deserves better. I can see why the Hendrix estate refused the original music to the makers of this piece of garbage, they must have known it was doomed.
Anyone involved in the direction of this film should be banned from the universe, it really is that bad. All the bad reviewers are right on.
Rating:  - Jimmie Hendrix deserve so much better than this.
I'm not much of Hendrix fan but after watching this film last night I think he would of been extremely disappointed. Leon Ichaso's biopic of Hendrix does a decent job of showing the rise and fall of Jimi Hendrix's career. What you get here is some shoddy casting and uninspiring use of documentary-style filming causes the film to lose much of its entertainment value.
However tired it might be, the standard biopic format deserves credit for its flexibility: It's capable of accommodating just about any sort of celebrity life that began unassumingly and ended prematurely. Start with some childhood scenes, segue into a young adulthood filled with wide-eyed innocence and unbridled promise, re-create the most famous moments of success, dwell on the period of decline, draw out the final days, and, boom, you've got yourself a biopic. Even class acts like "Man On The Moon" and "Pollock" wallow in the old clichés.
Often, filmmakers seem more interested in following the formula than in portraying their subjects' actual lives. So it is with Hendrix, a made-for-cable look at the life of Jimi Hendrix that could just as easily have been about Sam Cooke, Gram Parsons, Bix Beiderbecke, or anyone else who made beautiful music and died too young. Relative unknown Wood Harris plays Hendrix, and plays him well, but the film never really gets at what made Hendrix's music special. It seems to spring fully formed from his guitar while the rest of Hendrix travels through one bit of expository dialogue after another, when he's not thrown into lovingly shot scenes of rock 'n' roll decadence. "You're gonna lend me your boyfriend Keith Richards' guitar?" goes one helpful line of dialogue, spoken shortly before Hendrix's ascent to stardom. Once there, he seems to wander in and out of the psychedelic harem from the original cover of Electric Ladyland, when he's not arguing with manager Michael Jeffrey (a villainous, bewigged Billy Zane) about the direction of his career.
All the while, director Leon Ichaso (El Súper) pauses occasionally for montages of stock footage featuring pictures of The Beatles and hippies, lest anyone forget that Hendrix lived in the '60s. In the time it takes to watch this movie, you probably could of listen to at least two Jimi Hendrix albums. There are way better films of him out there,stay away from this one.
Rating: - HORRID!
I recently watched this movie, what a piece of garbage. I thought Wood Harris was plain awful...downright painful to watch as Hendrix. I was sick of his darting tongue and his constant cheezy grinning during the concert scenes. The guitar playing " simulation "was even worse. The real Hendrix was not like this at all!!!. I should have suspected the movie would suck, because no one can cheapen a film like Billy Zane. Once I recognized him behind that huge mustache, I should have stopped watching. I blame this one though, on Wood Harris..he was just terrible.
Rating:  - Just relax and enjoy it . . . .
I'm not obsessed with Jimi Hendrix. I'm a boomer (right in the middle) so I am familiar with Jimi's legacy and appreciate his inimitable musical talents. I love late 60's rock. I sat down to view this film as a light distraction . . . I WAS MESMERIZED! Wood Harris is awesome as Jimi Hendrix. Within the limitations on production (budget and licensing restrictions), this film was a great accomplishment. It captures Jimi as incredibly talented, a "free spirit", and rather vulnerable. It reveals how he fell into excesses of sex and drugs without demonizing him. The music was great. The music was not original Jimi Hendrix' recordings (duh), but they were very good and reasonably faithful variations. The guitar work was great and Harris' on-stage portrayals did great credit to the original. The Monterey and Woodstock performances were very good and entertaining copies of the originals. If you're not a conceited "music snob" and enjoy good music and the film arts, you'll dig this.
Rating:  - Great movie, shows the reality of many stars
This movie is a biography of the life of Jimmy Hendrix. It is as interesting as it is sad.
It shows how he pursued his dream about seeing no colors and finding the disapproval of the black community. It also shows how badly he was exploited, similar to Janice Joplins, and how he had talent but really no control over his life. His manager was the one who ran it.
Anyhow, it shows how this is one of the loneliest lives, as he was surrounded by women and people, but none of them really gave a care about him.
I give it a 4 star, because it only plays a few of his hits.
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