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Rating:  - stoned the movie
fantastic. i think leo was good as Brian. He sure brought out the sexy Brian for sure. loved the part with them doing Little Red Rooster.
debbi
Rating: - batcall
When Brian Jones died I heard all kinds of rumours and lies @ how it happened. Even though I hated the murderer got away with doing no time, but I'm glad he gave a death bed confession. This with the other contributors of the story we know the sad truth to what happened. He was still young and very talented and could have gone on. He did form the Rolling Stones.
Rating: - Blues no more...
I read some of the other reviews in which the movie wasn't well liked. Personally though I love the Stones. I'm a Gen-Xer so I grew up with parents and their friends listening to the Stones and the like. Anyhow, the movie starts out with a foreshadowing to Brian Jones' death at his home in Cheltenham, England. Then Frank Thorogood is brought in as a builder for Brian Jones' mansion and the sinister mind games begin. The movie then goes back a few months to tell the story which is Brian Jones: the sex, drugs, the women... everything that is the glitz and glam of huge fame rock and roll. The actual Rolling Stones, as hinted on in other reviews, is definetly not presented in this movie. The film is about primarily Brian Jones and his love of women and wine. I love the Morocco scene with the rest of the Stones. It's so free and cool, except for one part when Brian beats his girlfriend Anita. Okay, so they get back to England then Brian's girlfriend leaves him so she becomes Keith's girlfriend then. So then Brian gets kicked out of the Stones in the next breath.
The film also portrays Brian's early love for music from early on in his life, even high school. He came from a fairly well off family. Now I'll jump back to the end of the movie to the mind games with the builder, Frank. The movie focuses a huge amount of time on this relationship and can drag a bit but some of it is funny with, for example, the "Sunday afternoon" song. All of the unpaid builders, including Frank are hanging outside while Brian's having a great time inside with Anna. Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit" is used in contrast to show Brian's demise with Anita: the drugs and parties, etc.. At the end of Brian's life, he had a live-in girlfriend, Anna Wohlin, from a Swedish dance troupe. She stayed with him until his drowning, at the end of the movie, and this is a true life fact. Anna wrote a book on Brian's death called, "The Murder of Brian Jones."
Finally, the style of the film is very indy. The music is not very rolling stones. I did like the scene in the empty pool with Brian and Frank at the mansion where Brian plays his organ and really jams out but Frank's all awkward with the tambourine...kinda funny stuff. Basically the overall music is an original score. It's alright.
Here's an aside: I love the clothes! The characters who play the Stones are good. I thought that they did a good job.
"The Stones no longer play my brand of rock and roll..." Brian Jones loved the blues.
Rating:  - Not a bad movie
If you like the Rolling Stones, you may like this movie. It is not about the Rolling Stones, it is about Brian Jones and his abilities, his drug use and his 'fall from grace,' due to that drug use. All I had heard was that he had drowned in his pool. This movie presents one of at least three theories about what happened, what appears to be the most plausible, although there were no witnesses and no theories were ever proven. Briann Jones' loss to drugs, and to the music world, truly was a tragic loss.
Rating: - Decent for a one time view, but not as good as Backbeat
Some folks will look at this and think that this is going to be like Backbeat, the story of the original beatles, but it is far from that. This movie tells the tale of Brian Jones, the founding guitarist of the Rolling Stones and how he lived his life, and how it possible could have ended. This does a decnet job of capturing the 60's and a hard partying crowd, but really lacked in the consistency of a timeline, had quite a few unclosed chapters, and did not play as much as it needed to of the interplay between the members of the rolling stones. It could have been much more, but it is what it is. For music fans, you should get a kick out of it, but if you know nothing about the Stones to develop the background, or are not a huge fan of the music, then pass this up for something else
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