An average movie

I wasn't sure what to expect from this flick but since I have a weak spot for such music biopics, I still wanted to check it out. Personally, I thought it was not bad at all and I was above all impressed by Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning. They were both pretty good and it is a real shame to think that they would both waste their time with a franchise like 'Twilight'. Especially concerning Kristen Stewart, it will take a long time before her career really recover from this and that people start to take her seriously again. Of course, Michael Shannon was once again pretty impressive and he is slowly becoming one of the most interesting actors at work nowadays. Still, even though the subject was really interesting, even though those 3 actors did a really good job, the whole thing was still rather underwhelming. Indeed, it was unfortunately not really well written. I mean, the way Joan Jett met Kim Folwy sounded really phony and rather unbelievable. Like Roger Ebert pointed out, the weakness of the script was very often hidden behind some (albeit awesome) loud rock music. As a result, except for Kim Fowley who was the typical evil rock manager, you never really got to know the characters and, especially for Cherry Currie, it was never cleared what was exactly her problem eventually. Thank God at the end they tell us she eventually became a chainsaw artist! It was so much clear after that... Anway, it was still a fascinating band and those 3 actors were really good so I enjoyed most of this movie. To conclude, even though it never reached its full potential, it was still a decent music biopic and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you like the genre.

6/10