The Phoenix Network:
 
 
About  |  Advertise
 
Features  |  Reviews
Best2012Vote-1000x50

Stoned

Docudrama reminiscent of  Last Days and Backbeat
By TOM MEEK  |  April 11, 2006
2.5 2.5 Stars
STONED: Leo Gregory as Brian JonesStephen Woolley, producer of Absolute Beginners and The Crying Game, takes a turn directing with this docudrama about Brian Jones, the enigmatic fop who helped found the Rolling Stones and later died an ignominious death. The film opens with a Sunset Boulevard–esque shot of Jones (Leo Gregory) floating in the pool of his countryside estate (formerly owned by Winnie the Pooh author A.A. Milne) and then rewinds in blurs that feel plucked from Backbeat (a Woolley production) and Gus Van Sant’s Last Days. Woolley’s yarn hangs on the mercurial relationship between Jones and his builder/lackey, Frank Thorogood (Paddy Considine). Drugs, babes, full-frontal shots, and mind games ensue (allegedly the basis for Performance, which starred Mick Jagger); yet there’s nary a Stones tune, and when Mick and the boys do show up, they are oddly docile non-entities. Gregory rolls along effortlessly as the washed-out rock star; unfortunately Woolley’s choppy vision can’t sustain the beat.
Related: Elemental, Dream weavers, Brooklyn Rules, More more >
  Topics: Reviews , Celebrity News, Entertainment, Music Stars,  More more >
| More

 Friends' Activity   Popular   Most Viewed 
[ 02/13 ]   "Aphrodite and the Gods of Love"  @ Museum of Fine Arts
[ 02/13 ]   "Processes and Dreams"  @ Panopticon Gallery
[ 02/13 ]   "Artists' Books: Books by Artists"  @ Boston Athenæum
More Information
ARTICLES BY TOM MEEK
Share this entry with Delicious
  •   REVIEW: UNDERWORLD: AWAKENING  |  January 24, 2012
    The Underworld series got long in the tooth early, but here, in the fourth installment (directed by Swede Måns Mårlind), it grows new fangs.
  •   REVIEW: JOYFUL NOISE  |  January 10, 2012
    There's not much joy but there's plenty of noise of the rafter-rocking gospel singing variety in Tony Graff's musical dramedy.
  •   REVIEW: IN THE LAND OF BLOOD AND HONEY  |  January 05, 2012
    Jolie has loosely reworked the story of Romeo and Juliet in an infamous setting familiar from CNN but here seen from the inside.
  •   REVIEW: ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: CHIPWRECKED  |  December 13, 2011
    For 50 years, Alvin and the Chipmunks have been driving parents nuts with their helium-infused banter and shrill bastardizations of pop music.
  •   REVIEW: TRESPASS  |  October 13, 2011
    If Rod Lurie's errant remake of Straw Dogs didn't tickle your morbid fear of home invasion, then perhaps the latest from Joel Schumacher ( Falling Down ) might do the job.

 See all articles by: TOM MEEK

MOST POPULAR
RSS Feed of for the most popular articles
 Most Viewed   Most Emailed