A good movie

I wasn’t really sure what to expect from this flick but, since it seemed to have a decent reputation, I thought I might as well check it out. To be honest, even though I’m well aware of who David Bowie was, I’m not really familiar with his work and I don’t even have one single CD from this artist. In fact, even after watching this movie, I still don’t think I will rush to buy one of his albums and that’s probably the issue I still have with Bowie. Sure, as I expected, the guy was really fascinating, this movie clearly displayed that he was a real artist but, unfortunately, I’m afraid I still don’t care about his music though (I think I will still buy his Best-Of at some point just to make sure though). Anyway, it was still really cool to get to know this incredible rock star who had such an impressive career. Concerning the movie itself, I understand that they wanted to go for something else than a traditional documentary going through his whole career stating the major facts along the way and the end-result was indeed pretty neat. It was above all really interesting to hear Bowie sharing his thoughts. However, this approach also had its downside though. Indeed, the end-result was basically more than 2 hrs of chaotic and random images being thrown at you pretty much non-stop and it was sometimes more exhausting than entertaining or interesting to behold. For example, not so long ago I did re-watch ‘The Man Who Fell to Earth’, a fascinating and really weird movie starring Bowie, and I have noticed that through this whole documentary, they kept showing bits and scenes from this movie while it almost always had nothing to do with what they were talking about at that specific point. Anyway, to conclude, even if it didn’t completely blow me away, it was still a really solid documentary and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you are interested in David Bowie’s work.