The result, although a great idea, doesn't translate into a great movie.
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03/31/06
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Reviews Counted:15
Fresh:11
Rotten:4
Average Rating:6.4/10
Rated: R [See Full Rating]
Theatrical Release:Mar 31, 2006 Limited
Synopsis: On October 9, 2004, the Beastie Boys handed out 50 cameras to audience members at their sold-out performance in New York's famed Madison Square Garden. These 50 different passionate perspectives,... [More]
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Top CriticThis jumpy, slap-happy and loud historical document (the performance is from Oct. 9, 2004) should satisfy Beastie Boy fans and the 50 untrained shooters whose footage is deployed.
03/31/06
Top CriticThe novelty of the deliberate ugliness wears off after a song or two.
03/31/06
Top CriticIt's the next best thing to being front and center.
03/31/06
Top CriticShot from nearly every imaginable vantage point in the Garden, the film gives a pretty good idea of what it might have been like to be there.
03/31/06
Top CriticThis one's in-your-face, of the moment, and filmed from the trenches. It's raucous and loud as hell; the hyperactive editing could trigger grand mal seizures. It's a Beastie Boys concert movie -- what did you expect?
03/31/06
Top CriticA Beastie Boys concert is filtered through the giddy, spastic, amateur photography of 50 fans lent video cameras in this hyperactive exercise in democratic documentary.
03/30/06
Top CriticA killer concert film, an ecstatic testament to the joys of fandom and a tribute to the democratizing potential of moviemaking technology.
03/30/06
Top CriticA swirling, kaleidoscopic take on a familiar concept, and a raucous, you-are-there atmosphere.
03/30/06
Top CriticAll the digital footage has been manipulated within an inch of its life, the result being close to the same film that would have been made had real cinematographers shot it. Of course, real cinematographers would have insisted on being paid.
03/30/06
Top CriticNo new ground is broken here. From a cinematic point of view, Awesome represents simply a monumental postproduction salvaging effort.
03/30/06
Top CriticThe editing, and the psychedelic tinting, perfectly captures the Beasties' relentless groove, and there are any number of funny diversions.
03/29/06
Top CriticThe concert comes off like a blast.
03/28/06
Top CriticGet ready to be shaken and stirred.
03/21/06
Top CriticThis isn't good cinematography by any formal standard, as the operators are amateurs; shots frequently bounce to the beat. But the sense of immediacy and excitement is contagious.
01/23/06
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