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Leo Gregory's performance as Jones fails to capture his rebel charisma, and the film, like its subject, winds up all wet, floating without direction, and lifeless.
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| Original Score: 1/4
Even The Doors looked like a model of clarity next to this.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
A flat riff on Jones's short life. You'll get the highlights but no sense of what made him special -- or what really haunted him.
Played with such an utter lack of charisma by Leo Gregory, Jones comes across as a rocker so drug- and ego-addled he doesn't have enough sense to lie down.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
With its low budget, unadventurous script and notable lack of any Stones recordings it has the look and feel of a TV movie.
| Original Score: 2.5/4
The good news here is that Woolley and his writers have taken the mystery surrounding Jones' tragic 1969 death as their main interest, and have adopted as fact the long-cherished rumor that the blond rocker's drowning was a case of murder.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Most of the movie is a tired sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll cliché, and many of the performances are so bad as to be laughable.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
It's fun, for a while, to hang out with the temperamental rock star. But in the end, we can't wait to get away from the man.
The film fails to establish Jones' significance to the band or why his death should be seen as anything other than just another rock 'n' roll casualty.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Stoned, Stephen Woolley's convoluted docudrama examining the final weeks in the life of the guitarist Brian Jones ... stalls in its own laborious accumulation of detail.
| Original Score: 2/5
Mines the story of Rolling Stones co-founder Brian Jones for a note-perfect pastiche of Swingin' '60s style, but is less satisfying in other departments.
In the end, a Stones (or a Jones) movie with no Stones songs is itself a bit like death by misadventure.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
It never truly reveals who Brian Jones was before he fell apart. His indulgence, and his demise, play out in a void.
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| Original Score: C
The rock hero starts out dead and so does the movie.
The herky-jerky editing is meant to indicate tumultuous excitement, switching back and forth in time, but the effect is grating and frustratingly unilluminating.
| Original Score: 1/4
The film dishes oodles of sex and drugs but skimps on the rock 'n' roll.
